Chapter 643 Akihabara!
Akihabara.
Akihabara, commonly known as AKIBA, is an electronics street that keeps pace with the cutting-edge industries of the times. It is located in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, in the Shitaya area.
It is bounded by Showa Street to the east, Kuramae Bridge Street to the north, Chiyoda Ward Soto Kanda 4-chome to the west, and Kanda Renki Town and Kanda Matsunaga Town, Chiyoda Ward, to the south.
Akihabara is just outside the east gate of old Tokyo. After World War II, a black market selling rare and high-quality electronic products formed here.
From the 20s to the 50s, stores here stocked large quantities of first televisions, refrigerators, and later VCRs and game consoles.
The day after Yang Ming arrived in Tokyo.
The first stop for the first inspection was Akihabara.
In the eyes of many people, one never understands the development of the latest technology in Japan without visiting Akihabara.
Historically, Yang Ming had been to Akihabara, but that was more than thirty years ago, and the Akihabara he saw now in the early 1980s must still be very different.
Yang Ming was accompanied by Xu Qingsheng, two Asian translators, Lin Yazhen and Zhou Qiaoyi, and bodyguards such as Ah Zhu, Zhong Chuhong, Guan Jiahui, Chen Zhenhua, and Zhang Guohua.
After Yang Ming and others finished breakfast, they left the Setagaya mansion area and took a car to Akihabara.
As soon as Yang Ming and others got off the car, everyone was immediately attracted by the street billboards here.
Globally speaking.
In addition to the billboards in Xiangjiang, Wanwan and Haojiang, they are different and very distinctive.
The billboards here in Japan are even more like that.
At a glance, in addition to seeing many billboards on the outer walls of entire buildings, Yang Ming noticed that there were many advertisements for electrical products here.
"Boss, Akihabara plays a very important role here in promoting the company's new products. In the early days, they promoted the products of major Japanese electrical appliance giants. Electrical products such as Panasonic, Hitachi, Fujitsu, etc. Now there are many more electronic products. propaganda." Xu Qingsheng said from the side.
According to Xu Qingsheng, this is a showcase for Japanese electrical products and even electronic products to the outside world.
There are few places in the East but many people. One of the smart things about the East is that they like to focus on promoting a place to the outside world.
Akihabara is one of them now.
Mainly promote their electrical products.
By the late 1980s, they mainly promoted their electronic products, including electronic products from companies such as Nintendo and Sony, games, etc.
There are also a variety of otaku’s favorite comics and anime.
At that time, Akihabara was already known as the mecca of otaku culture.
Now because of Yang Ming's appearance, Akihabara has become a place different from what it was in history.
Nowadays, the most famous manga in Toyang is the work from Xiangjiang Two-Dimension Qingshuiwan, not to mention the video games, which are products from Imperial Corporation.
"Does our company have publicity here?"
"Boss, yes."
Xu Qingsheng first took Yang Ming to the place where Empire Games was promoted in Akihabara.
when they get there.
This building is the most conspicuous building located at the northwest corner of an intersection in Akihabara.
The building is not very high, only seven floors. However, the entire exterior wall of the building is now decorated with Xiangjiang cubes for promotion.
When citizens, tourists, and even drivers and passengers in cars are waiting for the traffic lights at this intersection, you can see here that there are always plates of different shapes composed of different colored squares, falling one after another from the wall of the building as the top of the screen Come and adjust the position and direction of the tiles so that they form a complete line or lines at the bottom of the building screen.
These complete bars will then disappear to make room for the newly falling tiles.
Looking past, it is a Xiangjiang cube that is playing in a loop.
"Master, it's Xiangjiang Cube." Azhu asked in surprise.
This building has long been known as the Xiangjiang Cube Building by the Japanese.
Since the game Xiangjiang Cube was launched, Xu Qingsheng asked people to set it up according to the height of the building, the size and proportion of the exterior wall area.
Promoting Xiangjiang Square 24 hours a day.
Soon, it became one of the most representative places in Akihabara.
Some people may be visiting Akihabara for the first time and don’t know where they are exactly, but when it comes to waiting at Xiangjiang Cube Tower, many people will know this place.
Over time, many Japanese people know this place.
"Boss, I had someone specially design the advertising wall. Judging from the publicity effect, it is very good." Xu Qingsheng said from the side.
"You did a good job."
Over in Xiangjiang, there is also a square building like this in Xiangjiang.
After passing the traffic light, we came to the Xiangjiang Square Building.
The first floor here is the product showroom of Imperial Games in Japan and even Akihabara.
In addition to the games published and listed by Empire Games, there are also game hardware products and related derivatives.
On the first floor, there are arcade machines such as "Space Invaders", "Pac-Man", "Snake", "Xiangjiang Cube", etc., as well as handheld consoles, red and white consoles, etc.
It mainly provides exhibition, publicity and advertising functions.
Empire Games has its own agents in Japan, and those consumers go to the agents to order. However, as an exhibition place, this place has a very good effect.
At this point, it has similar functions to those domestic mobile phones that Yang Ming saw in his previous life, and even the offline Pingguo mobile phone store used as an exhibition place.
Here, every product launched by Empire Games is available.
Every day, many players, citizens, and tourists come here to see if Empire Games has any new products on the market?
Except the first floor.
On the second floor, there are places where other owners operate.
"Boss, we have bought this building. However, the upstairs has been rented to others."
Rent to someone else?
When Yang Ming and others entered, Yang Ming saw rows of arcade machines inside.
He was really surprised.
"Boss, this place is rented to an owner of a game arcade in Japan."
Nowadays, all the arcade machines here are arcade machines from Imperial Games Company.
When Yang Ming went to take a look, he found that they were all the same game "Street Fighter 1". Moreover, many young Asian men and women are now sitting in front of arcade machines playing.
"There used to be many other arcades here, but they have been moved to other places. Now all of them are "Street Fighter 1". They are also very popular with tourists and citizens. They are basically full around the clock. "Xu Qingsheng said again.
"Mr. Xu, since it's so profitable, why don't we open our own game arcade?" Guan Jiahui said at the side.
Yang Ming didn't expect Guan Jiahui to ask this question, which meant that she had learned something during this period.
Xu Qingsheng smiled and could only say: "Miss Guan, we can't eat up all Dongyang's business."
The game arcade business in Toyo is basically monopolized by Toyo associations or run by shady game arcade owners.
Xu Qingsheng didn't think about it at first, but finally gave up.
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