Tag: Kaikan

Akihabara resembles Yongsan in South Korea. Yongsan, too, was once renowned as an electronics market. However, while Yongsan ceased growing as a bustling district, Japan’s Akihabara evolved into the epicenter of “otaku culture” by integrating diverse subculture elements. In the Edo period, Akihabara was a town for lower-class samurais. In the 1930s, it housed a fruit market, transforming into a ...