Comments on: Japan Anime Map

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:45:50 +0000

I just cant wait to be there. IÂ´ll be in japan next year, and I cant wait to buy anime and manga.

By: McNulty

McNulty — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:59:54 +0000

Thanks for the advice. Japan is on my top 5 places to visit, so I can’t wait.

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:26:17 +0000

You don’t need to know Japanese at all if you stick to big cities like Osaka and Tokyo. You can find English signs and most people understand simple English words if you try to make them sound like they were spelt with katakana.

Out in the smaller cities and rural areas, even the train route maps feature no English. Then you had better be at least capable of remembering and differentiating between many sets of two-kanji place names. lol.

By: McNulty

McNulty — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:45:52 +0000

Nice article Darkmirage. Reading this one really gave me an extra urge to visit Japan now that I know that I could visit places that were featured in one of my favorite animes. How fluent in Japanese should someone be to travel there?

By: Author

Author — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:14:45 +0000

The (F) locations looks suspictiously like Kawasaki, which also has two clusters of locations. That is a place I’d like to visit.

By: oldpier

oldpier — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:52:19 +0000

The Hakone scenery does nothing. It’s the abundance of Eva merchandise at (almost) every single gift shop that provides the reminder.

By: Loki

Loki — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:27:13 +0000

I wonder why they forgot about Higurashi and Shirakawa-Go… it is a very nice place :)

By: ayasawada

ayasawada — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:31:11 +0000

Thanks for the notes DM.

Actually, the Nipponbashi main road does have a few more major stores like Volks showroom, a Joshi speciality Gundam store (marked with a large 2/3 scale poster outside) and an excellent Super Position (for 2nd hand figures, gashopons and other goods) as well as the K-books you mention. But as you say, most of the good stuff is on the parallel road behind. I particularly love the Cospa store – expensive, but always full of cool merchandise (^-^)