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	Re: Any good PCE shops in Osaka?
	Re: Any good PCE shops in Osaka?

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From: duo16@mindspring.com
Date: Sun Sep 21 03:10:38 EDT 2003
Subject: Re: Any good PCE shops in Osaka?



 > In 2 weeks I'm going to Japan for vacation and I'm hitting Osaka for the
 > first time... Any tips on shops? I know 4-5 good ones in Akihabara from
 > last time I was there, so I'll be hitting those too, but I know Osaka
 > has a "similar" area so I'm hoping for good shopping...

 > Rob

you'll find that osaka has its own mini-version of akihabara called 
nihom-bashi (or something like that).  takumi suidu showed it to me a 
few years ago and it's pretty impressive.  many of the shops are 
similar to those in akihabara but they are cheaper (by about 10% or so) 
and, jsut as importantly, you'll very likely find things you won't see 
in akihabara.  i remember seeing Bandai Pippin's, Playdia's, 
Colecovision DINA's, FM Towns Marty's,and lots of Japanese 3DO 
software, and much more.  i don't know why that is exactly but, 
fortunately for you, you'll find all of these shops clustered together 
akihabara style.  enjoy! george 


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From: scotfb@comcast.net
Date: Sun Sep 21 10:12:20 EDT 2003
Subject: Re: Any good PCE shops in Osaka?


My personal favorite shop in the Kansai region is the Ninomiya store 
that is in front of Enmachi station (From Kyoto Station, take Sagano/San-In line to 
Enmacchi) granted, it is a little far from Osaka, but... come on... experience 
the culture of Kyoto ^_-. Anywhoo, there is a used video game shop on the 
second floor of that building called, "Move" and they offer various used video 
games, CDs, DVDs, etc.  I picked up Y's IV for Y980. In addition, they had the 
usual assortment of wonderful used consoles. They had a used 
Supergraphix, used PC-FX, used Neo Geo, Virtual On twin-sticks for Sega Saturn for Y930, a fairly 
decent selection of PC Engine games (if I recall, they had about 35-45 titles 
in stock), and a rather intimidaing selection of classic Famicom games.

Should you go out of your way to go to Niyomiya?  I don't know. But if you are 
headed anywhere toward Kyoto and have a couple of minutes to spare, go 
for it. > 
 >> In 2 weeks I'm going to Japan for vacation and I'm hitting Osaka for the
 >> first time... Any tips on shops? I know 4-5 good ones in Akihabara from
 >> last time I was there, so I'll be hitting those too, but I know Osaka
 >> has a "similar" area so I'm hoping for good shopping...
 >  
 >> Rob
 >  
 >  you'll find that osaka has its own mini-version of akihabara called 
 >  nihom-bashi (or something like that).  takumi suidu showed it to me a 
 >  few years ago and it's pretty impressive.  many of the shops are 
 >  similar to those in akihabara but they are cheaper (by about 10% or so) 
 >  and, jsut as importantly, you'll very likely find things you won't see 
 >  in akihabara.  i remember seeing Bandai Pippin's, Playdia's, 
 >  Colecovision DINA's, FM Towns Marty's,and lots of Japanese 3DO 
 >  software, and much more.  i don't know why that is exactly but, 
 >  fortunately for you, you'll find all of these shops clustered together 
 >  akihabara style.  enjoy! george 
 >  



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