[4K 360°] Walking Around Akihabara, Tokyo || JAPAN 360

[4K 360°] Walking Around Akihabara, Tokyo || JAPAN 360 ------------------------------ 🍣👘⛩ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ⛩🌸🌊 ------------------------------ MORE ABOUT TOKYO: 🔴 Tokyo 360° ( 東京都 360° )    • 🔴 Tokyo 360° ( 東京都 360° )   ------------------------------ Akihabara (Japanese: 秋葉原) is a common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan. Administratively, the area called Akihabara mainly belongs to the Sotokanda (外神田) and Kanda-Sakumachō districts in Chiyoda. There exists an administrative district called Akihabara in the Taitō ward further north of Akihabara Station, but it is not the place people generally refer to as Akihabara. The name Akihabara is a shortening of Akibagahara (秋葉が原, "autumn leaf field"), which ultimately comes from Akiba (秋葉), named after a fire-controlling deity of a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869. Akihabara gained the nickname Akihabara Electric Town (秋葉原電気街 Akihabara Denki Gai) shortly after World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market. Nowadays, Akihabara is considered by many to be an otaku cultural center and a shopping district for video games, anime, manga, and computer goods. Icons from popular anime and manga are displayed prominently on the shops in the area, and numerous maid cafés are found throughout the district. HISTORY: The area that is now Akihabara was once near a city gate of Edo and served as a passage between the city and northwestern Japan. This made the region a home to many craftsmen and tradesmen, as well as some low class samurai. One of Tokyo's frequent fires destroyed the area in 1869, and the people decided to replace the buildings of the area with a shrine called Chinkasha (now known as Akiba Shrine (秋葉神社 Akiba Jinja)), meaning fire extinguisher shrine, in an attempt to prevent the spread of future fires. The locals nicknamed the shrine Akiba after the deity that could control fire, and the area around it became known as Akibagahara and later Akihabara. After Akihabara Station was built in 1888, the shrine was moved to the Taitō ward where it still resides today. Since its opening in 1890, Akihabara Station became a major freight transit point, which allowed a vegetable and fruit market to spring up in the district. Then, in the 1920s, the station saw a large volume of passengers after opening for public transport, and after World War II, the black market thrived in the absence of a strong government. This disconnection of Akihabara from government authority has allowed the district to grow as a market city and given rise to an excellent atmosphere for entrepreneurship. In the 1930s, this climate turned Akihabara into a future-oriented market region specializing in household electronics, such as washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, and stereos, earning Akihabara the nickname "Electric Town". As household electronics began to lose their futuristic appeal in about the 1980s, the shops of Akihabara shifted their focus to home computers at a time when they were only used by specialists and hobbyists. This new specialization brought in a new type of consumer, computer nerds or otaku. The market in Akihabara naturally latched onto their new customer base that was focused on anime, manga, and video games. The connection between Akihabara and otaku has survived and grown to the point that the region is now known worldwide as a center for otaku culture, and some otaku even consider Akihabara to be a sacred place. ------------------------------ READ MORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara ------------------------------ #Akihabara #ChuoDori #CentralStreet #AkihabaraStation #Akiba #秋葉原 #Tokyo #東京 #とうきやう #日本 #Japan #VirtualReality #360 #360VR #HD #HDjapan #360degrees #discovery #360videos #360video #360video #visitjapan #travel #journey #trip #tour #tourism #sightseeing #JapanTravel #explore #バーチャルリアリティ #japan360vr #japan360virtualtour #japan360degree #japan360tour #japan360view #Mandarake ------------------------------ Unfortunaly I have no control over what YouTube does when processing the videos, therefore you might experience a bit of quality loss. THIS VIDEO Bitrate target: 100Mbps Maximum: 240Mbs Resolution: 3840x2160 Frame Rate: 29.97 Audio: 320 Kbps (48000 Hz ) ------------------------------