Holy freaking Crap!!!
I could blow my whole budget in one day at the Nakano Sun Mall...I was wandering around In awe the entire time I was there, which was about for a few hours...Wow, just wow that place is a true figure Otaku heven,I believe that puts Akiba to shame, figure and Cosplay wise I had to leave before I spent all my money.
My day started by walking to Akiba and decided to try to get the things I need for shipping stuff back...I had found the size of boxes I needed, but the shipping slips..where I different matter...I didn't know what I needed. So I continued to Akiba so I could get more things for Sofie.
Now I took the Yamanote to Takadanobaba and transferied(bought another ticket to Nakano, from Akiba to Takdanobaba cost 190yen, taking the express subway from Takadanobaba to Nakano cost 160yen so 350yen) I got of the subway train and headed for the South exit, not seeing a huge shopping complex I headed towards the North exit and instantly saw the sun sign have seen in other guides to famous anime places I headed into what I thought was the mall but it was just the walkway to the entrance to the mall. The mall is huge! I checked out the B1 floors to the 4th floor and I have never seen so many figure related stores in my life!!
I had seen some really expensive figures one was a Final Fantasy X-2 Rikku playarts figure for 15000, I really wanted it but I couldn't pay that much for it.
But I did find a whole bunch of stores that sold, cels, capsule figures, cosplay costumes, and one that sold Asain ball jointed dolls, manga shops and CD and Anime DVD. I am going to have to go back there. I mostly saw stores that sold figures.
I browsed one of the many cel shops, this one had rows of binders of them all the names where in Japanese so I need to write down my favorite anime in kanji and look for those series...I saw a lot of Black Jack, Metabots, and a few other ones I can't name
I am going to go back there again for sure.
So after I had spent enough money I headed back to the station and headed for the JR Ticket booth I was looking for what I needed for going to home, I saw that it was 290yen but I looked confused someone came to help me by pressing the help button, I told the attendant that I wanted to goto Ueno, he told me that it was 210yen I had bought my ticket and wandered around the station trying to find what train I catch, it was the Chuo line at gate no#8, after I asked around, I hopped the train and I was a really quick ride to Shinjuku, I had found the gate that I needed to take the Yamanote to Ueno, I arrived at the station and put my ticket in and it said "please adjust fair" so I went to the fair adjusting machine and put my ticket in and apparently it got stuck and so the attendant that was there unlogged it and calculated the remaining fair, which was another 80yen. I paid it and headed home.
So the swag I picked up, I huge figure of Mechazawa, which was 980yen.
A few Rovoltech figures one from Robotech and the other from Patlabor.
A few capsule figures two from Shin Megami Tensei, and two from Zelda: twilight princess.
I had found Soundwave for Matt and bought a clover strap for my brother at a 100yen shop that was in the B1 floor.
7 comments:
Duuuuude, that Mechazawa is sweet!
Thats a real nice soundwave too. How much were those two outta curiosity?
The Mechazawa was 2900yen but it was on sale for 980yen. So I had to buy him..I should of got two at that price.
Soundwave was 4800yen.
If your around there again, and he's still on sale, can ya pick me up a Mechazawa? =D
I knew you would like the mall! :) Though if you're an anime fan, I don't see how you can *not* have fun there. The Sun Mall is where I picked up my Tenchi and El Hazard cels, as well as my Eva CDs. Do they still have second-hand CD shops there? Did you check those out, or were you saving those for your next trip?
The Tokyo train system can cost you different amounts to get to the same destination depending on which trains you take. The Yamanote is one line (I believe government-owned), but the Tozai and the Marounouchi are private lines, and as such can charge whatever they like. As you get used to the system you can comparison shop, but as the difference is usually pretty small for the 4 or 5 stops between Shinjuku and Nakano and Baba and Nakano, it's almost negligible. If you're going to Chiba on a regular basis, that's something else. :)
Well I am deffently going by there again, I'll see if they have any more and if they do I'll pick up one for you.
Yep they have a few second hand CD/DVD shops there. I might go back there again today. With a stop over at Shinjuku. Since I now know that I need to take the Chuo line there.
I checked out some of them but I am going to check them all out some more, there where a few cel shops, that I want to check out.
Sounds like a pretty damn cool place :)
Fantastic job with the new photo upload! :)
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