Chiyoda City (Tokyo)
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Chiyoda is the ward at the center of Tokyo, around the Imperial Palace, and Akihabara, the city’s district of electronics, anime, and games, is at its northeastern edge. On my first night in Japan, September 8, 2024, I went out to Akihabara’s arcades. Two days later, I went back for its retro game shops and takoyaki, walked along the Kanda River past the red-brick arches of the old Manseibashi Station, which now hold shops and cafés beneath the Chuo Line, and spent the rest of the afternoon in the Imperial Palace East Gardens, on the grounds of the old Edo Castle. I came back to Akihabara with my nephew on the afternoon of July 23, 2026: tonkotsu ramen at Kyushu Jangara, a shop stacked to the ceiling with Pokémon, and the drum games at the Taito Station arcade. On July 24, 2026, Tokyo Station, on the ward’s eastern side, was where my nephew and I boarded a bus for a day trip to the Mt Fuji area, with stops in Fujikawaguchiko, Oshino, and Fujiyoshida, and where it brought us back that evening.
Photos from Chiyoda City (Tokyo)
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The viaduct of Manseibashi Station, closed since 1943, its arches now shops and cafés.
Kyushu Jangara, serving the tonkotsu ramen of Kyushu in Tokyo since 1984.
One of Akihabara’s shops of anime and game merchandise.