Thank you for the video, was recently in Akihabara and this helped me find some great deals. Got a great set of Hinata and Kagayama from one of your recommendations, and the shop clerk not only got new boxes from the back he also threw in a small freebie.
Great to hear that it helped someone!! I was very confused stepping in to Akihabara at first and really didn't know where to begin so I'm really happy you could get a deal and get the figures that you wanted! 😍
If i ever go to Japan imma need to remember this video. I didnt even think about how theres soooooo many stores that sell figures and looking for the best price would be so time consuming
Online hunting is better than buying in Akihabara. There are lots of good deals online in my country. I knew as I went there last April these Akihabara figures costs a fortune but great trip it unlocked my childhood dream of visiting Japan. 😊
I followed your advise to the letter and found the best deals for the figures I wanted. I bought like 15 items and paid less than 20K yen. Thank you so much!!!!
Um… as a Japanese otaku guy, I would say most of the figure prices in ANY store in Akihabara is a scam. If you go online those same Miku figures can be around 1000-2000yen including the domestic shipping fee. Which means, if you are staying at the same hotel for week or longer, it would be way more cheaper to get those from online and have them sent to your hotel. There are some online stores that you can pick up your item at a convenient store too. If you can’t get things online, I would say that Book-Offs and Hobby-offs would have better price tags, but since stores in urban areas tend to have newly released stuff in store which would make them pricey, try to go to the stores in country sides. There should be some cheeper older figures. Something you should know about the figures is that if the box has “Sega” or “Taito” or “Bandai Namco” and they don’t have any see-through windows on the box, those are the figures that you can get at the arcades. And if you are good at it AND if you know which arcade to go, you can actually get them for even lower than 1000 yen. Those claw machines can be customized by each arcades and because Akihabara has tons of people attempting to get those figures, the settings on claws are F-ing insane! They intentionally are making them difficult! If you want to try claws, go to the countryside. After Covid, especially because yen is cheaper, Akihabara became more of a tourist destination than something it was in the past. These days you see more foreigners than Japanese in Akihabara. So what happens is that stores starts to raise the prices for everything since even though those prices are expensive for Japanese, they won’t be for foreigners. Just don’t get scammed please
There's like NONE 💀 I came across one Levi figure in the entirety of that mall and that's it. Besides that there's like nothing aot related anywhere that I found
Hi, Teddy👋🏻I'm definitely not an experienced buyer, but I'd like to score my first-ever figures when I visit Japan soon (childhood dream). I'm just a bit confused about Hobby-Off & Book-Off. Online, I had read that they were secondhand stores like Lashinbang and Mandarake. Is that not true? I definitely want to purchase new figures instead of secondhand ones, so other than the Tokyo Hobby Center in Akihabara, which stores would you recommend that are in central Tokyo, where I won't break the bank? I've heard of Ikebukuro and Nakano Broadway, too, but because I'm not an experienced buyer, I've no idea about the most cost-effective way to go about this😔I will also be pressed for time, so any tips would be much appreciated🙏🏻
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Thank you for the video, was recently in Akihabara and this helped me find some great deals. Got a great set of Hinata and Kagayama from one of your recommendations, and the shop clerk not only got new boxes from the back he also threw in a small freebie.
Great to hear that it helped someone!! I was very confused stepping in to Akihabara at first and really didn't know where to begin so I'm really happy you could get a deal and get the figures that you wanted! 😍
If i ever go to Japan imma need to remember this video. I didnt even think about how theres soooooo many stores that sell figures and looking for the best price would be so time consuming
Right!! I got lucky with the first store where I bought something casue when I saw the figure later for 4 times the price I was like ain't no way 😟
Online hunting is better than buying in Akihabara. There are lots of good deals online in my country. I knew as I went there last April these Akihabara figures costs a fortune but great trip it unlocked my childhood dream of visiting Japan. 😊
I followed your advise to the letter and found the best deals for the figures I wanted. I bought like 15 items and paid less than 20K yen. Thank you so much!!!!
Hi Can you tell me what store you were at the was selling the signed drawings at 18 seconds into your video? Was it one of the stores you mentioned?
Bicute bunnies are definitely good for the price, i got the makima one for 50 bucks.
You are already a very experienced buyer !
I try my best 😎
Um… as a Japanese otaku guy, I would say most of the figure prices in ANY store in Akihabara is a scam. If you go online those same Miku figures can be around 1000-2000yen including the domestic shipping fee. Which means, if you are staying at the same hotel for week or longer, it would be way more cheaper to get those from online and have them sent to your hotel. There are some online stores that you can pick up your item at a convenient store too.
If you can’t get things online, I would say that Book-Offs and Hobby-offs would have better price tags, but since stores in urban areas tend to have newly released stuff in store which would make them pricey, try to go to the stores in country sides. There should be some cheeper older figures.
Something you should know about the figures is that if the box has “Sega” or “Taito” or “Bandai Namco” and they don’t have any see-through windows on the box, those are the figures that you can get at the arcades. And if you are good at it AND if you know which arcade to go, you can actually get them for even lower than 1000 yen. Those claw machines can be customized by each arcades and because Akihabara has tons of people attempting to get those figures, the settings on claws are F-ing insane! They intentionally are making them difficult! If you want to try claws, go to the countryside.
After Covid, especially because yen is cheaper, Akihabara became more of a tourist destination than something it was in the past. These days you see more foreigners than Japanese in Akihabara. So what happens is that stores starts to raise the prices for everything since even though those prices are expensive for Japanese, they won’t be for foreigners. Just don’t get scammed please
Did you see any Fullmetal Alchemist and Kuroko no Basuke figures?
Oh no the return of the lost opportunity Denji
I got over him cause of all the miku figures that I got 🤣
Gosh I got macaroon miku for $10 haha
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Do you have any recommendation for AoT stuff in tokyo with reasonable prices? 😅
There's like NONE 💀 I came across one Levi figure in the entirety of that mall and that's it. Besides that there's like nothing aot related anywhere that I found
Why no reaction content anymore?
Cause I'm living my best life rn 🤘
Hi, Teddy👋🏻I'm definitely not an experienced buyer, but I'd like to score my first-ever figures when I visit Japan soon (childhood dream). I'm just a bit confused about Hobby-Off & Book-Off. Online, I had read that they were secondhand stores like Lashinbang and Mandarake. Is that not true? I definitely want to purchase new figures instead of secondhand ones, so other than the Tokyo Hobby Center in Akihabara, which stores would you recommend that are in central Tokyo, where I won't break the bank? I've heard of Ikebukuro and Nakano Broadway, too, but because I'm not an experienced buyer, I've no idea about the most cost-effective way to go about this😔I will also be pressed for time, so any tips would be much appreciated🙏🏻