Where to go for boards in Japan?

gibbous · Post by **gibbous** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:29 pm

Hi, I'm new here, although I've been lurking for a while. I have a Raiden. That's it. Great collection, eh? I do have a MAME system rigged up in a Megalo 410. That's a lot of fun.

Anyway, I've got a buddy over in Japan right now for the TCS Worlds. I think he's in Kakegawa, Shizuoka. Does anyone know where I can tell him to go to find a good PCB shop?

Thanks.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:40 pm

Go to the trading section, there is a sticky for this.

I think all shops are in tokyo though.

gibbous · Post by **gibbous** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:29 pm

Thanks, but I can't find the sticky you're talking about. There's the Play-asia coupon thread, and the Feedback Thread. I see the sticky for ordering PCBs from Japan using Japanese online auction sites, and it has links to websites for actual businesses located in Hong Kong, but I didn't see anything about where the shops are in Japan that you can just walk into and buy a game....

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:34 pm

you need glasses

theyre all listed in the 4th post of the "cutting out the middleman" thread.

gibbous · Post by **gibbous** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:39 pm

Ahhhhhh! I need lasik or something.

Thanks neorich and sven.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:29 am

In short, your friend will have to take a trip from Shizuoka to Tokyo to get to a PCB shop. It's about 6000 yen each way on the Shinkansen.

gibbous · Post by **gibbous** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:11 pm

Thanks, GaijinPunch, that helps a lot. I couldn't get an address out of every one of the websites listed to verify what neorich said.

I don't know if Tokyo is on his itinerary, but we'll see. My friend hasn't seen any PCB shops, but he says he's getting lots of pics of schoolgirls. I'll have to make the trip myself someday....

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:47 pm

gibbous wrote:Thanks, GaijinPunch, that helps a lot. I couldn't get an address out of every one of the websites listed to verify what neorich said.

I don't know if Tokyo is on his itinerary, but we'll see. My friend hasn't seen any PCB shops, but he says he's getting lots of pics of schoolgirls. I'll have to make the trip myself someday....

i dont know who your friend is but sending someone with limited or no knowlede of arcade PCBs into one of the shops in Tokyo is pretty useless really.
you have to know what youre looking for to find anything in any of them, contrary to popular belief most of them are actually quite expensive too, making bargains even harder to find for the untrained eye.

mrkotfw · Post by **mrkotfw** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:45 am

gibbous wrote:Thanks, GaijinPunch, that helps a lot. I couldn't get an address out of every one of the websites listed to verify what neorich said.

I don't know if Tokyo is on his itinerary, but we'll see. My friend hasn't seen any PCB shops, but he says he's getting lots of pics of schoolgirls. I'll have to make the trip myself someday....

I think you can post a nice album of all the schoolgirls. I think that alone makes your thread worthwhile.

gibbous · Post by **gibbous** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:16 am

I e-mailed one of the sites on the stickied thread and they let me know of one shop in the Shizouka area. Unfortunately, I believe my friend is already on his way back. Oh well.... It was a long shot to begin with, but I don't often have a friend in Japan....

I'm waiting on the pics myself....

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:02 am

but I don't often have a friend in Japan....

Me neither.