Hello there guys . My mom is going to Tokyo for 10 days and i thought of ordering her some stuff to bring over. Are there 1-2 good Hobby shops adresses that they have proven better prices than we can shop on the net or anywhere. And i think that mostly we talk about Japanese stuff.. Tamiya etc .
Thanks in advance for your help. I d appreciate personal experience, cause i ve found links but reality is usualy deifferent

Costas

heheheehe tell her to pick me some stuff up

Costas,
There are shops all over the place, and yes the prices are better than online, unfortunatly I live 60- 80 km form the Tokyo and only know the local shops in my area and I had to find those by looking for them while driving around. But, there are 2 in Tokyo that I know of both are in Akiabara the Electronics Shopping District. One is rather obscure and on the 5 th florr of a building in the middle of the district (its marked on the guide map) call Yellow Submarine, they specialize in Figure and obsure japanese subjects in resin. the other is by the train staion at the west end of the district its also marked on the map. But they sell eveything and its several floors of Hobby items. Now, a question for you are you coming as well???? If so take a bullet down to Shizuoka and take a free shuttle to the Hobby show in 2 weeks. There will be vendors from all the Major Japanese companies and you can easily spend a lot of money, but you'll get twice as much stuff than going to any local shop in Japan. HTH STUG

hELLO THERE STUG .thanks for your info. Unfortunately i am not going down Japan...some other time hopefully .. I lead her there to get some Japanese figures that i bet i cannot find here.
Thanks a lot for assisting me

Costas

Major_Goose

Stugiiif is right, there are many good hobby shops around in Tokyo, such as Yellow Submarine: http://www.yellowsubmarine.co.jp/ and Kiya: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kiyahobby/info.html

I must visit the above hobby shops everytime I go to Tokyo. They got almost everything you need. You may find the address on the above websites but all in Japanese. Hope that you can figure it out.

thanks octupus for helpin me out