Akihabara's history

Akihabara start as a food market.
The market moved to a neighboring town "okatimati" "ueno" "tukiji".
Then Akihabara came to sell parts such as radios after the second war.
Akihabara has tradition as a part shops.

By the flow, shops of household electrical appliance came to gather.
So Akihabara became most famous as a town of an electric appliance in Japan.
Akihabara's neighboring town is "music town". The town is "Kanda" "Otyanomizu".
Kanda has Greco guiters. The Greco guitar was made with Matsumoto of Nagano (hujigen-gakki). And the Greco guitar was sold by Kanda Shokai in 60's.
So, a CD of music came to be sold in Akihabara, too.
Akihabara changes afterwards as a town of a part shop of a PC. Next game, animation, Manga, etc.
But now, Akihabara is not Manga town. Akihabara became a town for a tourist.
I am otaku, so I have a lot on otaku.

Illustration's are still seen everywhere in Akihabara. There is a maid coffee shop, too, and there is it in a costume play year.
But, as for it, it has been stolen an article for tourists. A tourist came to come to watch a figure of otaku. And the otaku who was the undeeply which wanted to attract attention of a person came to play it.

Real costume player has one rule, they don't do at a public place. That kind of manner matched in old days.

Though it was happy that I was in Akihabara quietly as otaku.

Akihabara always changes. This town is special space.
I loved for otaku town. But it is lost.

I know it is nomal change. Akihabara is a town satisfying greed. Therefore a town changes if a kind of greed changes.

Therefore I was able to make myself at home there so far. Because it is matched me. I think that a different person should make himself/herself at home now.