Akihabara electric town affectionately known as akiba is worldly famous for its densely packed buildings crammed full of anime manga and game paraphernalia.
Japan tokyo anime town.
Note that the same word 町.
This is a legacy of when smaller towns were.
If you are a manga anime lover travelling to japan you should definitely visit manga and anime places in japan especially there are many of them in tokyo.
秋葉原 is a common name for the area around akihabara station in the chiyoda ward of tokyo japan administratively the area called akihabara mainly belongs to the sotokanda 外神田 and kanda sakumachō districts in chiyoda.
Anime and manga are big parts of modern japanese culture today.
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Machi or chō is also used in names of smaller regions usually a part of a ward in a city.
Located in the heart of tokyo akihabara station is easily accessible via the jr yamanote line.
It is held every spring at tokyo big sight in odaiba.
Formerly known as the tokyo international anime fair animejapan is the world s largest anime exhibition.
From pokemon to studio ghibli numbers of comics animations games and its own characters attract fans all around the world.
There exists an administrative district called akihabara in the taitō ward further north of akihabara station but it is not the place people.
Chō or machi is a local administrative unit in japan it is a local public body along with prefecture ken or other equivalents city and village geographically a town is contained within a district.
In more recent years akihabara has gained recognition as the center of japan s otaku diehard fan culture and many shops and establishments devoted to anime and manga are now dispersed among the electronic stores in the district.