Some very odd news about the Otaku city of dreams: Akihabara. As quoted from ANN.


"After two years and seven months, "Pedestrian Paradise" — the tradition of zoning the main street of Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district as pedestrian-only — returned on Sunday with a record crowd of about 100,000. Police, 50 surveillance cameras, and about 230 local citizens kept watch as a 570-meter (about 1,900-foot) stretch of Chūō Dōri was cordoned off to foot traffic only.



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