Need directions to the Super Potato store.

Hey everybody. My best friend is over in Japan now teaching English at a Cram School. The problem he has is that he can only get on the internet on his days off and there few and far between. So right now he's been using his Cel Phone to text message me.

My friend whould like to know how to get to Super Potato from the Akihabara train station. So if you could please let me know it will help me out alot.

Thank you for all your help in advance!

Just do what Bobak did, get lost in the back streets and listen for the 8 bit midi music.

it had to stumble on to it as well.

Here's a map of akihabara and where the trader stores are.



it's in the streets behind trader 1. Just wander around back there and he'll find it.

Yep, it's stuck somewhere in that alley. Seriously, though -why you're too lazy to simply look at their website it beyond me

Here's the map:
http://www.superpotato.com/map/akiha.html

As anyone will tell you, the address system used in Japan isn't worth shit because it's usually based on when the building was built and not what order its in -that's why so many companies simply use maps to show their location.

Here's some really vague directions from my own recollection that correlate with that map:

- from the station you'll come out into the "electronic town" exit and make a right onto this main side street which will lead you to the main street. Make a right on the main street and then go down several blocks (past the coffee place that looks like a Starbucks knockoff), then make a left and go to the first minor alley that runs parallel with the main street. It's somewhere on that alley on the 3rd Floor

Here's the original thread you never looked up:
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115788&highlight=superpotato

Thanks Bobak, as I said this is for my friend. I sent him the thread you wrote with all the pictures before he left, as well as the website. I even told him to join the message boards here so he can ask for info himself.

But for some reason he can't get his computer online because they don't have braudband or somthing else like that. So I have been asking all the questions while he's out there buying stuff up. I'll send him the directions and hopefully he won't get lost.

Thanks once again!

YuckMud said:

Thanks Bobak, as I said this is for my friend. I sent him the thread you wrote with all the pictures before he left, as well as the website. I even told him to join the message boards here so he can ask for info himself.

But for some reason he can't get his computer online because they don't have braudband or somthing else like that. So I have been asking all the questions while he's out there buying stuff up. I'll send him the directions and hopefully he won't get lost.

Thanks once again!

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Good luck!

Again, Superpotato is an unbelievably jam-packed store (its ~2000 square feet tops), I hope your friend isn't too big because the aisles are small even for a Japanese person. He should give himself at least an hour for that store. I didn't even begin to do it justice at 1 1/2 hours.

The Traders location that also carries used old-school games is nearby SuperPotato off of that main street (the used games were also on an upper floor of that location, the 2nd or 3rd... I can't remember of hand).

Bobak said:

Good luck!

Again, Superpotato is an unbelievably jam-packed store (its ~2000 square feet tops), I hope your friend isn't too big because the aisles are small even for a Japanese person. He should give himself at least an hour for that store. I didn't even begin to do it justice at 1 1/2 hours.

The Traders location that also carries used old-school games is nearby SuperPotato off of that main street (the used games were also on an upper floor of that location, the 2nd or 3rd... I can't remember of hand).

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Don't worry, he'll have plunty of time. He's going to be teaching there for a year and hopefully he can find some games he want there. He had to tell me how excited he was that he got a Japanese Saturn with Raident Silvergun, Metal Slug 1 and Panzer Dragoon.

I told him to pick me up a copy of Twinkle Star on the Dreamcast. I played it at a laundramat on a small 2 slot neo and I've been hooked ever since.

Bobak said:

Good luck!

Again, Superpotato is an unbelievably jam-packed store (its ~2000 square feet tops), I hope your friend isn't too big because the aisles are small even for a Japanese person. He should give himself at least an hour for that store. I didn't even begin to do it justice at 1 1/2 hours.

The Traders location that also carries used old-school games is nearby SuperPotato off of that main street (the used games were also on an upper floor of that location, the 2nd or 3rd... I can't remember of hand).

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Yeah those aisles are ridiculously small. but it's great. I think it's exactly what my room would look like if I had that many games and game systems

Bobak said:

The Traders location that also carries used old-school games is nearby SuperPotato off of that main street (the used games were also on an upper floor of that location, the 2nd or 3rd... I can't remember of hand).

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Trader 2 has now been renovated.

They moved all of the 'classic / retro' stuff down to the first floor (which used to be only PS / PS2), and the second floor is now only DVD's. Because they now have to cram all of their used games into the one floor, they reduced their stock and cut some sections entirely (like the 3DO section).

Sign of the times? I hope not...

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