Lit buildings and street advertising in Akihabara at night, with trees along the street

A corner of Akihabara at night with lit shop signs and people crossing the road

The red shrine hall at Kanda Myojin with racks of wooden ema plaques and a stone lantern

An Akihabara street in autumn, yellow ginkgo trees and a crowd of pedestrians, a railway overpass in the distance

Akihabara, Tokyo

Akihabara: Where to Eat, What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

Plan Akihabara as a walk around the Electric Town side of the station. Mandarake Complex gives 4 minutes on foot from the JR Electric Town Exit, and Yodobashi-Akiba is directly connected to the station. On Sundays the main road, Chuo-dori, is closed to vehicles: 13:00–17:00 from October to March and 13:00–18:00 from April to September, and it can be cancelled in bad weather.

Eating is either on the station side, such as the 8th-floor restaurant floor of Yodobashi Akiba, or a few minutes into Kanda, where Kanda Yabusoba, Kanda Matsuya and Isegen are 1 to 2 minutes from Awajicho Station. For a hotel, pick the station first: Akihabara Station is served by the JR Yamanote, Keihin-Tohoku and Sobu lines, the Hibiya Line and the Tsukuba Express.

Akihabara: food, things to do, where to stay

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