Akihabara is my own personal hell
February 19, 2025.
On day 6 we decided to try going to Tokyo Station to visit Tokyo Character Street. I honestly don't have much to say about it, it was just ok. It was incredibly crowded and a lot of the merchandise was just eh. I did go to the Pretty Cure store and that was exciting, but the merch was disappointing. It was very empty. So we didn't spend long there.
After the disappointment of Chara Street, we decided to try out Akihabara. Biggest mistake of my life. We were there for only a brief time but I hated every moment of it. It was so horrible I asked Koinuko if we could go home once she had located the figure she wanted. For your enjoyment, I give you my live experience of Akihabara clipped from my local lolita comm's discord server.
Akihabara is a degenerate pervert porno hellscape. Tokyo has a lot of pachinko parlors, sexual services, sex stores and degen anime stores. But dear god the sheer amount on Akiba was enough to out freak even me. I came out of Akihabara humbled and disturbed. Unlike in the anime stores in Ikebukuro where the porn is usually on a separate floor or behind a curtain or a sign, in Akiba it's aaaaall just out in the open. Tits and ass and pixelated pussy and loli armpit folds everywhere. I know I probably could have found some cute waifu or BL stuff if I looked hard enough, but it just was not worth it.
Akihabara was also significantly more expensive than Ikebukuro and worst of all - full of men. But not just any men oh no. These were a mixture of dudebro tourists and full on otaku degen men. When I went into men's anime stores in Ikebukuro the men were mostly clean and well-ish dressed. They did not smell, nor did they look like they had crawled out of their mother's basement. The men in Akihabara however... Oh my god. Akiba is not a weeb paradise, it's an otaku containment zone. If you're a woman and planning on doing anime toy shopping in Tokyo, do yourself a huge favour and stick to Ikebukuro and Nakano. Or better yet, check out Nipponbashi Den Den Town in Osaka (see day 9).
Oh yeah! Also the smell! Nobody will tell you this about Japan, but cities such as Tokyo REAK of shit. Doo doo. Poo poo ka ka. This is because their septic waste (poo poo) and their rain runoff go into the SAME drains under the city. Directly under your feet. So every time you pass by a grate to let rain water into the drains there is SEPTIC WASTE in there!!! And the smell comes up!!!
So everywhere in Tokyo smells like literal human shit and piss, but for some fucking reason Akihabara was SIGNIFICANTLY stinkier. Like I gagged multiple times just from walking down the fucking street. Mind you I grew up on a farm, used to scrub toilets and currently work with the elderly so I have smelled a lot of stinky farts and poop in my time. So I am not weak to stinky smells and yet I was GAGGING walking down the road.
So basically what I'm trying to say is Akihabara is my personal hell on earth.
Once we were out of enemy territory we went to a Sweets Paradise to eat some mid tier desserts and more importantly sit down for an hour. We wandered around for a bit and went home. I was in an actually foul mood after spending less than an hour in the most degenerate neighbourhood on earth. I'm so sorry for ruining this day for us Koinuko T0T please forgive me!!!
