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Akihabara Shrine

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Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Akihabara Shrine
Address:
1-6-1 Sotokanda | Sotokanda Bldg. 1F, 4F, Chiyoda 101-0021, Tokyo Prefecture

Akihabara 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 and Kanda-Sakumachō districts in Chiyoda. There exists an administrative district called Akihabara in the Taitō ward further north of Akihabara Station, but it is not the place people generally refer to as Akihabara. The name Akihabara is a shortening of Akibagahara , which ultimately comes from Akiba , named after a fire-controlling deity of a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.Akihabara gained the nickname Akihabara Electric Town shortly after World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market. Nowadays, Akihabara is considered by many to be an otaku cultural center and a shopping district for video games, anime, manga, and computer goods. Icons from popular anime and manga are displayed prominently on the shops in the area, and numerous maid cafés are found throughout the district.
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