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| Topic Started: Aug 16 2006, 11:24 PM (482 Views) | |
| Densha | Aug 16 2006, 11:24 PM Post #1 |
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I'm leaving in a few months to live in tokyo. I'm currently selling up all my property, so will be adding most of my densha collection to the sales thread pretty soon.
 I'm going to be selling video game merchandise from tokyo via the net, so i'll be always on the look out for densha items! i'll be more than happy to find games for present members (Afterbirth, animalica Bassman, snake1111, Trazok, Wing Fat, Yamanote74, _demon) and anyone else who has at least a post count of 10, for free of charge!!!! (just pay price and postage) Living in tokyo will hopefully give me a kick up the arse too, so i can spend much time adding stuff to this forum and the main site, as i'll have lots to add!. For the time being, i'll be moving in a apartment in Akihabara (where all the games are!) Link to apartment...... link |
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| Yamanote74 | Aug 17 2006, 02:54 PM Post #2 |
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Hi Butch! I am really envying you that you really decided to start a life in Japan. I donīt know if you have ever been there, but you will be surprised how different everything is compared to Europe, especially customer service is, wherever you go, is simply great but totally different. You said in about a month you will go? I will be in Tokyo from 22nd of September to 14th of October (on 23rd I will go to Tokyo Game Show - YIPPEEE!!!) to visit my girlfriend. Japanese people have not much holidays (only about 10 days paid and unpaid national holidays), 2 weeks of my 3 week stay I have to "explore" Tokyo by myself (mostly I go to Akihabara because my girlfriend is a little afraid of that place, japanese otakus are real strange people sometimes. Have you ever been to Akihabara? If not we can (if I have some time) meet up in Akihabara and I can show you some good places to buy cheap video games, especially the Super Potato Game Store, thatīs a gamers paradise, everybody who is interested should check out this link to lik-sang, there is a video about the store: http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3021 I have been already some times in Akihabara, I love the place, I often go there without any plan of buying something - and in the end I come home with bags full of old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast classics... my poor credit card ;-). I will contact you when I am there too! Greetings from Austria Christian |
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| snake1111 | Aug 17 2006, 07:30 PM Post #3 |
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hi butch, thats a news, wow! i am impressed. wish you good luck and all the best in japan. and good to hear that you will still run this forum and you will work in that profession. that is a nice offer with looking for games and densha items. i will defently come back to that when you are on the other side of the globe! so, till then i wish that everything will work out the way you dream it. how exciting and soooo impressed.... |
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| Densha | Aug 17 2006, 10:35 PM Post #4 |
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thanks snake and yamanote! i meant i'm going in a few months (november), i've just corrected the typing error. I'm going for just over a month to settle there, see if i enjoy it (i'm sure i will) and obtain information from citizens advice about a part time working visa and tax issues. I'm then coming back to england for a few weeks to sell all my stuff (projector, hdtv, pashislo machines etc..), and then i'm going back straight away! i've never been to japan, so the first few weeks will probally be weird. thanks for that video link!, i'll have a view of that now!  i've been on youtube all week looking at akihabara and tokyo videos. I've already been told to go to the following stores... Trader 2 - Go down the left hand side of Club Sega for 2 or 3 blocks. Medialand - On the same side of the road as Sega GiGo, just past the green bridge. Super Potato - Go down the right hand side of Hey! (Which is on Chuo Doori and on the same block as Club Sega i think) It's on the right hand side of that street not too far up. Trader - Walk down Chuo Doori away from the station and on the same side of the road as Club Sega, you'll pass Sofmap & Messe Sanno on the same side of the road. It's a small walk past those. Liberty 4 & 5 - Roughly over the other side of the Chuo Doori to Trader. Friends - Way up (as far as the next station) (and a block behind if i remember rightly) the Chuo Doori on the same side as Club Sega. Close to GFront (one of the PCB shops). Its a shame i'm going a bit later than you yamanote!, it would have been cool to go on a densha search with you! (and to possibly get train simulator midosuji for all those members who have been after it all these months/years!) Have a good time at the games show, and if you have a camera, take some photos of it for the forum! by the way, i'll be adding all my densha and train sim games to the sales thread tomorrow! I hope the buyers look after them as much as i have! 
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| Yamanote74 | Aug 18 2006, 12:17 AM Post #5 |
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Really a pity that I am not in Japan in November, but if you really like Japan (I am sure you will, but it may be very hard at the beginning, especially without any language skills, although I speak japanese a bit (canīt read much yet, only a bit hiragana and katakana) it is hard to find a job. If you really want a job in Tokyo I can only recommend you to teach english at a language school. You are a native speaker, so it could be easier for you to find something (maybe you can ask at "Nova" or "Berlitz", 2 of the biggest language schools in Japan, especially Nova helps teachers to get working visa and an apartment, even before you move to Japan). Most jobs require quite good language skills. You will realize that only a few people talk english in Japan, most japanese are afraid of using it, so be prepared to communicate with "hands and feet". Another hint I can give you is to check for jobs on websites for gaijins like "gaijinpot.com". They often have job offers for foreigners living in Japan, sometimes they donīt even require japanese language skills. I was searching - no, I am still searching a job in Japan, but I donīt want to give my life up here in Europe so quickly, I would move there only if I would have a serious job offer in my pocket. If you really decide to live longer in Tokyo we can maybe meet someday, because I am at least once every 10 months in Japan! |
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| Yamanote74 | Aug 18 2006, 12:26 AM Post #6 |
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Something else - if you go to the Akihabara game stores, try to avoid the big gameshops along the main road (unfortunately Trader 2 is one of them), many foreign tourists go there without comparing prices. The more hidden a shop is the better the bargain will be. Sometimes I could buy cheaper games in gamestores in Shinjuku instead of Akihabara, because the shopkeepers in Electric Town are not stupid. Last november I searched "Shadow of the Colossus" for PS2 in Akibahara, but it was sold out in most shops. The shops where they still had it doubled the retail price to more than 12.000 Yen. But I went to Shinjuku West Exit, there are some gameshops around, there I found it for the official 6.800 Yen. So Akihabara is not always the cheapest place to shop. |
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| Densha | Aug 18 2006, 01:47 AM Post #7 |
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thanks for the advice!
 i'm actually going there to sell games to westerners via ebay as a way of earning money, thats why i need to go to citizens advice about tax issues. i'm also using the trip before i stay there to find all the cheapest stores (i've got 4-6 weeks then to search all the back alleys for hidden shops). i've been making a living off ebay for the last 2 years now and have a good knowledge of multi-format prices (western prices) and rarities. i know some people disaprove of ebay capitalists, but its the only thing i've ever been good at. I've got no decent school / collage qualifications, so its my only outlet and i enjoy it. i don't mind getting forum members densha games as i'll be searching for games to sell on ebay all the time anyway and visiting the post office as often. my ebay activities are a full time job. i highly recommend you doing the game selling route for quick and easy money in japan, if you dont mind making money off people on ebay. all you need to do is get a few sealed and mint copies of dreamcast shumps, ps2 bemani games and mint and complete sfc games, sell them for buy it now, and you'll easily be able to survive on a weekly basis. or sell loads weekly and live a very rich life!. as i said before, it just depends on your opinion towards making money off people on ebay (i know a lot of people are against it!). i might have to get a part time job like handing out leaflets to qualify for the part time working visa, but that doesnt bother me as long as its just for a few hours a week. another reason why i'm leaving is because i don't like the majority of british girls (very masculine). i'd love to find a japanese girl to settle down with, and am currently on a japanese dating service. i'm also on a few sites looking for english speaking tokyoites to help me settle in and to help me with sending stuff in the post office and in return i'll help them with their english and of course friendship. i'm currently learning the basics of the language, customs, manners etc... (downloading various language teaching programs and playing on shenmue a lot!) :lol: one of my friends is a teacher in japan (hiroshima area), and he'll be coming to tokyo now and again to see me, which will be good! wow, that price difference for shadow of colossus is quite a lot!  thanks again for the advice! here's some links i've got to help with moving in, maybe they will be of use to someone.... cheap flights tokyo friend finder japan personals rail pass info planettokyo.com workintokyo.com postal service info english speaking doctor / dentist in tokyo |
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| Yamanote74 | Aug 18 2006, 09:35 AM Post #8 |
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Thatīs really great that you can make a living from selling games at ebay. I know that you already have a very good reputation (on ebay and here in the forum), it is not easy to find a trustworthy seller on ebay nowadays. I have another hint for you: When you get out of Akihabara station (on your left should be the Sato Musen building) you should follow the main street until you come to the first big crossing (on the opposite side is a big electric store, i think it is "Laox"), cross the street and turn right and go down the main road, the shop should be near a buliding with green coloured windows (itīs a smokers room I think). Most of the shops are tourist traps along the main street, but there is one shop (unfortunately I donīt know the name) that looks not very inviting from outside (they donīt use big and colourful advertisment like the other shops), they simply have a white basket with some special offers (last time I saw Konamiīs Para Para Dance with controller for 300 Yen and Shakka Tamburine with controller for 500 Yen, but a japanese otaku has taken both before I could grab them) but if you go in it might be a surprise for you. They have not so much choice like Super Potato, but they sell dozens of copies of the same game for one price (like every Dreamcast game 300 Yen, every Saturn game 200 Yen, every PSOne game 100 Yen and so on). I bought there an originally packed Rage Racer and Ridge Racer Revolution for PSOne for 100 Yen each. It is easy to pick up more copies of the same game for a very good price! They have a lot of anime stuff too, PC games, famicom games and much more. Oh boy, I wish I would have the same courage to do business over internet! I really wish you all the luck in the world! Akihabara has also a lot of good restaurants and snack food shops too. Along the main road there is a very good takoyaki shop, these are deepfried doughballs filled with octopus, topped with mayonnaise, a sweet soysauce called tonkatsu, dried bonitoflakes and seaweed, itīs a cheap but very delicious snack. |
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| Densha | Aug 18 2006, 04:16 PM Post #9 |
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wow thanks for that!
i'm going to write all this advice down in a notepad, it really is appreciated! and to think the para para controller goes for around Ģ75 here with the game! 
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| animalica | Aug 19 2006, 07:20 AM Post #10 |
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Looks like you could need some maps and guides by Kodansha International soon: Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Rail and Road Atlas: English/Japanese http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/4770017...=D1KWL3A8UKEH5K Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide (Paperback) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/4770028...=books&v=glance I only got the "Japan - A Bilingual Atlas" by Kodansha which comes in handy A5 size, which is recommedable. Only downside was the price and the index which is only sorted by latin letters. |
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