Travel tools for otaku trips
The practical side of a shopping trip, so your hands stay free for figures.
Coin lockers
- Akihabara: large lockers by the Electric Town exit and under Radio Kaikan.
- Nakano: lockers at the JR north exit, fill up by midday on weekends.
- Ikebukuro: Sunshine City basement has lockers big enough for suitcases.
- Nipponbashi: lockers in the subway concourse near exit 5.
Sizes cost roughly 300 to 900 yen per day. Most accept IC cards.
Find coin lockers
IC cards
- Suica and PASMO in Tokyo, ICOCA in Osaka. All work nationwide.
- Add them to your phone wallet to skip the ticket machines.
- Pay at convenience stores, lockers, many arcades and newer gachapon machines.
JR Pass
Travelling between Tokyo and Osaka for Akihabara and Den Den Town? A JR Pass can cover the shinkansen and JR lines.
Get a JR Pass
Roadto151
Track your original 151 Pokémon card collection before you go, so you know exactly which cards to look for in Akihabara and Nakano card shops.
Visit Roadto151
Tax free shopping
Spend over 5,000 yen in one shop and show your passport for tax free prices at most large stores.
See Pokémon shops