If you're reading this blog, there is a good chance that you're familiar with Tokyo's electric town, known as Akihabara. Home of the greatest weebs and weeb accessories, it's a place you can not miss if you're going to Japan "for the culture". While trains do exist, I am sadly not in that area, since I live in the Kita (North) Osaka area. But when I heard that such a district existed in Osaka too, I got my hopes up, and it looks like I did right.
Welcome to Den-Den Town.
To put it simply, Osaka's downtown is actually in two parts : north and south. The north part, Umeda, is a big hub of trains and classy buildings, but I really talked about it earlier. So let's just talk about the south part, Namba. Of course, Namba isn't only this so-called electric town (literally "Den Den Town") but this is the only place that was of any interest to me. Today, my mission is the explore all the good shops. And by good shops, I mean shops that sell video games. My search begins at that one shop called "Disc Pier", quite close to the station where I come from.
Now, this store had mostly new games, and since I was looking for games that weren't just released, I decided to just go around and take some pics, and scout for a possible good deal, but nothing came. Oh well, at least it was a nice place I think.
My adventure had just begun. After stopping to contemplate the very long alley filled with shops, I realized that, well, that was a very cool area. I didn't take a picture of everything, but you can see a bit with those.
Next stop is GEO. Like many shops that sell vidya, they rarely only sell video games so this one was even bigger. But since I'm only here for those, I only visited their second floor, dedicated to video games. Unlike the previous one, this store mostly had pre-owned games, which I like because of the lower price. After a fair bit of reflexion, I decided to grab myself a pre-owned New 3DS XL (LL in Japan) and Dragon Quest Monster Joker 3. Hey don't look at me like that, I should have enough money to eat during my stay. I mean, probably.
While I already made some good business around here, I thought it would be a waste if I didn't visit other shops and eventually realize that what I got was cheaper in the places I still haven't visited (spoiler : this is what happened). Now the next one is actually a pretty well known name when it comes to video game shops in Japan : Super Potato. While it is mostly known for their selection of retro games, their first floor was dedicated to current gen games, new or used. I'm taking this opportunity to talk about one thing : if you're looking for a particular game, you can be sure they have it. I only went to game shops in my home country, but you usually only have a guarantee on newly released games, and the used games bin usually has the 3 same games. In Japan I feel like I could find anything.
Going back to Super Potato, I did visit their retro section (because it looked cool) but I don't really care about retro games so I just left it at that. However, I got my hands on the last game on my list, Shin Megami Tensei IV Final, this time at a good price (around 3000 yen without tax).
Finally, I went to a last store just for curiosity, and I know why curiosity is a bad thing now. Both games, and even the console I bought were cheaper here. In the end I didn't get anything in that one store because I was so salty, I don't even remember its name. I took a picture though.
While going back, I also looked at the other shops, but I didn't feel inspired to go inside. There were a lot of anime shops for stuff like goodies, figures, DVD/BRs and the like, and also obviously manga. Since this first visit was just motivated by the need to get specific video games that weren't available outside the archipel, I decided that I would come back some other time and probably let myself get tempted by other various, wallet-crippling impulse purchases.
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