Akihabara tour service most used by Hongkongers
The Tourism Industry Association of Japan conducted a survey early this year on the New Discovery of Akihabara tour that started regular service in July last year has found that the majority of the participants have been people from Hong Kong, followed by Singaporeans, Americans, and Australians.
There were even participants from Slovenia and Iceland apparently.
On the other hand, the survey period was during the Chinese New Year holidays in China, but there were no participants from China. The reason for this was because people from China tend to visit Japan via tour groups and there weren’t many that visited Akihabara on an individual basis. However they expect that the numbers will rise when individual tour visas are allowed in the future.
They had an average of 11 participants for each tour, I didn’t know there were so many tourists visiting…
March 10th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
A WASTE OF TIME, REGARDLESS
March 10th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Waste of time, perhaps, but I guess its shows that the seemingly ‘large’ amount of otakun in Japan may actually be other Asians. Including Hong Kongers.
Not too surprised to see Singaporeans there, since we have a bustling community of those no-life guys. (and no, I don’t waste my money to go to Japan, even if I find all this curiously interesting)
Someday, someday, more people will know this sub-cculture of Japanese otakun-dom.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
BASICALLY. I COULD HAVE MORE FUN IN A LIBRARY.
AND SAVE A TON OF MONEY ON MY CAR INSURANCE
March 11th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Well, that’s you.
You’re not the no-lifes they are
March 11th, 2008 at 4:54 am
I actually went for this, and yes I was quite a waste of time. The goodie bag was nice though :)
Funny enough, everyone else but me and my 2 other friends were old people….
March 11th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Shin ?
Are you the same as the one from NUS… I wonder….
Oh, and how would you define ‘old’… I wouldn’t consider 30+ ‘old=’
March 16th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Actually, i was in Akihabara several time in August of 2007 and i’m 30.
And yes/no, i’m a no/yes-life. ;p
I went to Comiket 72 on Friday and Sunday, was quite fun.
Also i bought qite much Lycee, chasing down meganekko cards and also buying some Magic the Gathering along the way.
I met several otaku there, went to several maid cafes.
Damn, maid cafes are quite expensive, other than meeting otaku and for the occasional relax, i would avoid them.
And the porn, the masses and mases of 2D porn in various media, it was TOO much.
And idols, i just don’t understand the appeal of idols.
Meh, as a otaku of meganekko and otaku culture, i don’t really appreciate the various otakuisms.
Well, i did enjoy seeing a weapons shops, a replica gun shop, a miniature train shop and a back-alley doujin shop.
There were also some electronics shops, slectronics like in transistors, LEDs, capacitors, resistors, chips, whatever more and i liked those.
And the card game shops were nice too.