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Blue Behir upon a bisected boulder bravely defending her brood of babies, breathing blasts of lightning

Choke Creeper as seen in the D&D cartoon episode “The Garden of Zinn”

Eagle, Eel and Elf

Froghemoth

Gibbering Mouther

Hollyphant

Janni

Kraken

Lycanthrope (Foxwoman)

Modron

Nereid on a Nautilus

Oliphant (featuring Venger)

Phoenix

Quickling

Raven (featuring Hank the ranger from the D&D cartoon)

Spectator (featuring Zandora the sorceress from the D&D cartoon)

Tarrasque

Urchin (featuring Uni from the D&D cartoon)

Vegepygmy riding a thorny

Wemic

Previously: Jimbocho (Book Town)

The area in tokyo 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. The name Akihabara is a shortening of Akibagahara, which comes from Akiba, named after a fire-controlling deity of a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.^[

Akihabara is considered by many to be the centre of Japanese otaku culture, and is a major shopping district for video games, anime, manga, electronics and computer-related goods. Icons from popular anime and manga are displayed prominently on the shops in the area, and numerous maid cafés and some arcades are found throughout the district.

2025 – my second visit to this neighborhood! (First time was 2019)

Right next to the JR Train station, YODOBASHI CAMERA Akiba is the largest electronics store in Japan and has 9 floors including restaurants and a batting cage – but the 6th floor is where I spent most of my time for obvious reasons:

Here’s a walkthrough video (not mine)

No less nerdy is Akihabara Radiokaikan, just a five minute walk to the West

I bought a few Ultraman monsters and I don’t regret it! Here’s a walkthrough video (also not mine)

So you’re in Tokyo and you’re wondering where’s a good place to get used books? Well by golly I’ll tell you –

KANDA-JINBOCHO (aka JIMBOCHO)

Jinbocho has its own subway station and is 2 stops away from the famous Akihabara station, it’s about a 16 minute ride.

It’s about a 15 minute walk from Tokyo Dome! Which has a theme park…

The roller coaster actually pokes out over the building above the sidewalk which, as a pedestrian is… disconcerting

Fun things we saw on our walk included stumbling across Anitouch petting zoo, where you can pet capybara, ring-tailed lemur, meerkat, and more typical farm animals (it was a bit sad seeing meerkats who wanted to dig in the dirt but they were trapped in a plastic area) and the Cappy Cafe – where it looks like they might be selling capybara burgers? Nah… probably just the name. Right?

There’s a Mos Burger nearby! Try the matcha shake, it’s not too bad! And of course the rice burger (the bun is made out of rice, there were only 2 on the menu and they were hidden out of the way, but they had them). There was also a frozen dessert that was really REALLY frozen and I had to let it melt a bit in my warm hand before the tiny plastic spoon could dent it

There’s tons of book stores around…

But the best one was definitely:

Komiyama Bookstore Tokyo

Which had multiple floors packed with cool books and tons of amazing art!

These photos are NOT from Komiyama Tokya Gallery, which is another location a few blocks to the East.

Around the corner we had tonkatsu at Butadaigaku Tonkatsugakubu, where you order at the machine by the door and they have a delicious mustard you can put on your tonkatsu! I forgot to take a photo of my meal before I ate it, but you can imagine

And here’s a photo of a random old style storefront, which I find aesthetically pleasing

Next: Return to AKIHABARA

Woohoo! I’m a special GUEST OF HONOUR at year’s KamCon! Check out the art I provided of our Dread Lord Cthulhu

It will also be available on this amazing dice tray thanks to Crits n Bones

WHAT I’M DOING AT THE CONVENTION:

Firstly I’ll have a table in the Vendor Hall, where I’ll be selling some of my original D&D art, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets CDS and paraphernalia including some Spaceship Zero comics, and prints of this handsome entity:

SCHEDULED EVENTS:

SATURDAY 11am RPG Writers panel With Seth Skorkowski, Jon Hook, Toren Atkinson, Douglas Lloyd, William McAusland, Connor Heighton and Moderated by James Droucker.

SATURDAY 6:30pm TASKMASTER!

SATURDAY 8pm I’m running SPACESHIP ZERO THE RPG in the Mountain Room, Table K

SUNDAY 11am: YouTube and Content creator panel  With Seth Skorkowsky and Toren Atkinson, moderated by James Droucker

SUNDAY 5:30pm GM Styles and World Building panel  With Seth Skorkowsky, Toren Atkinson, Jon Hook, Lee Ann Spiller, Nigel Beardwood, Marcus Pelletier and moderated by James Droucker