XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: emschwar@pobox.com   
      
   Widya Santoso  writes:   
   > ... and now, starting this Sunday, for Y2,000, you can go on a guided tour   
   > of Akihabara, seeing all the sights of the place, with a maid as your   
   > guide.  This 100 minute trip is limited to 10 (ten) people, which includes   
   > a 20 (twenty) minute break at a- where else?- "maid cafe".  While you'll   
   > see shops, you won't be going in- I expect you can do that after your   
   > tour.   
      
   Which to me, defeats the whole purpose of when I go to Akihabara--   
   namely, getting completely and gloriously lost (though it's not a   
   large district, and I usually end up finding the train station okay),   
   finding shops selling stuff you won't find in the US, which ranges   
   from peripherals designed to teach you how to play guitar (possibly   
   forerunners of the Guitar Hero game?) to N-gen cellphones to soft-core   
   porn.  Though with the porn, the interesting thing about it wasn't   
   the content, it's that it was sitting on the street level, open to the   
   world, right next to a really nifty camera shop.   
      
   -=Eric   
      
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