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Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan


Complicated mapToday

We found this map in Hiroshima. These messy maps are pretty usual in Japanese cities, but this one was more dense and complicated than usual.

Mapa

Mapa
My friend Albert together with the map.


Useless doorsNovember 27

This is my collection of “useless doors”, there are tons of them in Japanese cities. Japanese is a relatively secure country but people usually install advanced security systems (Alarms, cameras and stuff like that), but it seems that they don’t really care too much about the security level of their garden door.

For example, look at this door with a SECOM sticker. SECOM is a security solutions company, specialized in installing alarm systems.

puerta

This house has an alarm and the door looks pretty protective but… if we zoom out(See next picture), we found out that it is a useless door, we can go inside evading the door from the right side!

puerta

These are some more pictures, so you can have fun looking at the funny details.

puerta

puerta

puerta

10% discount if it’s rainingNovember 25

I got this discount ticket that it’s valid for a dinner in a restaurant only if it’s raining. I’ve only seen in practice this marketing strategy in Japan but I think it could work in other places. Would you go out for dinner if you have a 10% discount or would you stay at home?

Lluvia

Akihabara, otaku and geek sacred landNovember 21

Akihabara is the biggest electronics shop district in the world and one of the most important Japanese pop culture springs. Akihabara dreamed place for gadget, technology, anime, video games, robots and manga lovers. Akihabara is where many geeks and otakus from all around the world dream to travel once in their life. Located near Tokyo station, since sixty years ago Akihabara has been known as the “Electric Town”. In the fifties Akihabara shops were selling radios, in the 60s and 70s TVs, washing machines and refrigerators, in the 80s and 90s personal computers and video games, and after 2000 also anime, manga and otaku culture in general is conquering Akihabara. Right now is the biggest electronics shop district in the world. But Akihabara is not only known because of its shops, is also a fountain of pop culture movements like Cosplay (people dressed like their manga or anime heroes), Maid Kissas, Otakus, Akiba-kei (social group who likes to spend free time in Akihabara, sometimes is translated as geek) and many others.

akihabara
This is the first thing you will see if you take the “Electric Town Exit” arriving with train.


WTF VideoNovember 19

Recorded this video from a screen in the entrance of a DVD store in Osaka. Would you go inside this DVD store after watching this video in the entrance?

Chorrada

Chorrada