Nipponbashi Denden Town

I’ve been to Akihabara and Denden Town is like Osaka’s Akihabara, but on a much smaller scale. It’s not as noisy or busy, but it’s pretty fun to run around for a few hours. There’s a few shops that I loved visiting while I was here.
It’s a great place to get your otaku on! If you also like curry, there’s a good number of curry shops here and a few ramen shops as well. Definitely a site to check out if you’re in the area!

Heaven for Otaku people! Woohoo!
This great area is close to my work place, fun place to just walk around.
Lots of nerdy stuff! computer and animé etc :)

The electronics district of Osaka, located in Nipponbashi is called Den Den Town. To a foreigner like me, this is a much more compact and easy to navigate version of Tokyo’s Akihabara. For the Osaka Otaku, there are the same main places of interest, just less choices of:
! multi-​level animé + manga retailers, like Animate and Manga
! 6 – 8 level video game arcades and purikura, like Taito Station and Sega
! Maid Cafes and cosplay cafes. There are also theme cafes for specific girl band groups, where any various members will be working at the café at a certain time.
! Costume shops! Wig shops just for insane animé hair, as well as shops for costumes.
! Figurine shops for resin and rubber models of your favorite characters.
! 0 tourists! Yep, we were the only tourists there the entire time. The streets are not crowded, which makes the entire experience even more likeable.
While there are gatchapon dispensers on the street, I am sad that there is not a shop.
Without doing much research ahead of time, we walked into Den Den Town from Namba station, which was only a couple of blocks. I could easily spend an entire day just in Den Den Town, because just one bookstore could easily take a person four hours to navigate and see everything. In typical Japanese fashion, the shops are clean and organized, making for an insanely convenient and visually overloading experience.
Around the district perimeter, there are some excellent stall style restaurants that serve Osaka’s prized dish; takoyaki. You will also see many Bōsōzoku riding through this district to get attention. We saw a guy named «Early Riser» that was playing the tune of a heavy metal song with his motorcycle engine. That is the kind of stuff that I come to Japan to see.

I bought an electronic English-​Japanese dictionary in this neighborhood several years ago. I got off at Nihombashi Station, looking in the shops towards Ebisucho Station. When I checked a product and a price at a certain store, the shop clerk didn’t want me to peep out other shops around the center of Nihonbashi. I feel nostalgic for having wondered whether products became cheaper so as to approach the center of Nihonbashi.
Today I can do it in neighboring J without going to Nihonbashi, but I should come to Den Den Town (which means electric town) when I want to obtain a machine not to easily get and need to know it in detail.
This town is also famous for a parade of costume plays. Several maid cafes are spattered in the town. I have never been to the cafes and its festival. The event was held on March 21, this year. It seemed to be a big event for comic fans. I’ve heard Japanese comics are popular especially among French people. I hope this Japan-​originated culture will be much more international. Surely it will be gorgeous by turnout.