Rick decided he wanted to explore Akihabara, the "electric city", on his birthday. Full of neon signs, giant ads, and electronic super-stores, Akihabara looked like what I expected of Tokyo. The neighborhood is also full of game arcades and manga (comic book) stores - some selling such naughty figures of anime characters they would make the Red Light District blush. This one is outside a 7 story sex shop.
This is just a small sample of all the lights around Akihabara.
A large electronics store, with a McDonald's hidden in the bright lights on the ground level.
We wanted to go to a restaurant we found in our guidebook, but quickly realized Akihabara was too huge for us to walk there. Instead we wandered the streets until we ended up at a multistory foodcourt type of place, full of small restaurants. We decided to go to a "kushiage" restaurant, where we sat along a bar and the chef prepared treats on sticks, battered and deep fried. Some of the delicacies included fish, pork, salmon with ginger, asparagus, shrimp (which I even tried, but declined the head even when the chef insisted), and mini octopus (couldn't eat that, it was too cute and sad looking). The chef even told us which sauce to use with each piece. It was a great experience, especially since it took us a long time to find a restaurant. The best part was we didn't have to worry about reading a menu and ordering - the chef just kept handing us food.
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