Hello from Japan

[Chalavet]

Just a heads up the parts store at Tokyo Radio Department moved in April. It’s on the same street, but further down. Walk about 100 yards on the same street AWAY from the Akiba main road and it will be there on the right. The new location is bigger. Same amount of stuff, but now more than two people can shop at one time.

Good to know! Thank you!

 

[Chalavet]

Get yourself a YAJ account and keep your fingers crossed. You’ll still be competing against a lot of people, and prices can go nuts, but sometimes you get lucky. Bought easily 200k of merchandise for people on the forum from there between 2022-23. I got a lot of stuff for myself just throwing “bullshit bids” out there. Just don’t get emotional and keep bidding more than you want to pay, especially for common stuff like CPS2 boards. I promise others will appear. I built a good size console and arcade collection this way in about two years. Shipping it all back to America was rather expensive when it came time for me to move, so keep that in mind when building your collection up out there. Keep each package under 150,000 yen if possible to avoid extra fun with export customs (about 5000 yen plus 3-4 days more time per package if you don’t heed this advice). Anyway, enjoy your time there!

Thank you for the advice! I actually got an account, and I picked up a Fate Grand Order cabinet along with a few Mahjong Fight Club Extreme cabinets. They power on, but the games supposedly don’t work. I’ll have to do some digging in and figuring things out. I like how the MFCE cabinets look. However, my plan is to throw in an old pc and get some sticks and buttons to make a few MAME cabinets and the like. Eventually, I’ll probably get an MVS, Naomi, and a Type X-3 or X-4.