As written in the LonelyPlanet, "If you have a short attention span, and you love the latest technology... Akihabarah might be your cup of tea"
Well... I didn't find any tea over there... but I surely found enough stuff to divert my attention... so much that it took me 3 visits on 3 consecutive days just to locate an item my friend "Kenan" to get it for him...
Now... the surprising part... well I found that Akihabarah has carried an uncanny resemblence of, well, AlHalbooni (الحلبوني) market with Albahsah (البحصة) in Damascus, Syria... combined together
Well, almost... they don't really sell stationary here!
But all of the Electronics Parts shops with CDs/DVDs with shops that sell are there..! I didn't see this thing in Dubai...
Sega Club in Akihabarah
Electronic Parts Shops
However, this is on thing you will never find in Dubai or Syria... Ham Radio (and no, it has nothing to do with Pork!... it is completely Halal! ;-)
Hey seem to have what you might have heard about in american mafia movies "radio scanner"... i guess it can get you police radio waves frequences... and it's not cheap... 1,200USD
Ok, jokes aside... what many people don't know is that Ham Radio (or Amateur Radio) used to be the 1900s "Chat Rooms" ... and it is still very popular in Japan ... some people consider it the One and Only true free worldwide communication medium! They think that internet is a teenager (less than 20 years old) which cannot be compared with Radio
Interesting no?
Some movies has explored the HamRadio universe. You might wanna check some of these out.
Ham Radio Shop
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