The Animate Ikebukuro is one of the shops of manga, anime and related products greater Tokyo. Animate around lately are showing many manga and video game stores that were formerly inAkihabara. Many saythe "authentic Akihabara geek spirit is being lostand is going to other districts like Ikebukuro and Nakano.

Shiinaneko-sanhas found an original way to use the IPAD as a dish to eat. Does anyone dares to do the same dishes in your area?

Celebration in theHachiko dogearly in the morning (Monday here in Japan). PhotosAlain.

In some elevators Japanese, mostly in malls, at times elevator can still be seen working. Just going by tightening the buttons, confirming that the door opens and closes when touched, announcing the number of plant every time the elevator and making sure that everyone can go up or down on the ground you want. Do not know if it will be auseless workor not but must be tired to spend the entire day standing in an elevator.

This video I took in an elevator of a mall in Shinjuku station:

Asian DestinationsKirainet and have prepared a route to Japan for 9 days in late October this year. The route is designed to visit most places that presented in the last chapters of my bookA Geek in Japan. One option for the trip is a guided tour of some areas of Tokyo with me. There are only places for 20 people! You can make reservations, request more information on the trip fromthis form.

Seen a photo exhibition in Spain in the roomFujifilm Square.

Japanese has three "alphabets"hiragana, katakana and kanji. Hiragana and katakana are syllabic and has a fixed number of symbols that represent sounds (46 symbols per primer, in total 92). In the case of kanji, the issue is quite complicated because there are more than theoretically50 000 kanji characters. The good news is that "officially" you can only use 1945 of them.