Mechanical Keyboard Shopping in Tokyo, Japan!
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2017
- Here's part of my trip in Japan - Akihabara in particular. I read some Japan shopping guides (linked below), and visited some of the stores. Unfortunately as always, there wasn't enough footage to further show what these shops had - my apologies.
Stores visited :
Sofmap - Akihabara
Tsukumo - Akihabara
Yodobashi Camera - Akihabara
BIC Camera - Yurokucho
Japan shopping links :
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/ keyboard_stores_in_japan
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I can't believe they just openly put out so many keyboards on display yet none of them are missing any keys.
If this was in our country, all the keycaps would have been stolen..
haha. Reminds me of a Logitech board that was on display at a store near me, which had like half the caps missing.
japanese have an education with a heavy emphasis on values
It's like that in the Netherlands too including the mouses.
Yuki That's the issue with melting pot countries.. missing keycaps lololol otherwise we'd all have the same values and not steal em.
Here in Slovakia we don't even have "big" stores that sell mechanical KBs. Few local e-shops have few showrooms around the country but if you want to at least see a mechanical KB before you buy it your only chance is the capital city. And obviously even there you would only find "e-sport" brands.
That third place... Literally peripheral HEAVEN
i am Japanese but the last time i been there was before i was into keyboard as much as now. now when i go to japan next my suitcase will be filled with keyboards and mechanical pencils
ze_or I too am obsessed with mechanical keyboards and mechanical pencils and planning a trip to Japan from Australia 😊
Kim W yay Australia
I dunno alot about mechanical pencils, but one day, scrolling, page after page, in an online store website I saw a mechanical pencil and it's an unbreakable lead, it said, I instantly bought it, it's kuru toga advanced and zebra Delguard and it's so awesome, it just made me want to see more advanced and more future mechanical pencil 😂
Aaron Christian Thanks to replying to a 3 year old comment lol. I personally like the orenz series for unbreakable lead, eapecially orenz nero 0.3. The delguard works well for 0.5 but I don't write hard enough to break 0.5 anyway, and it's less effective for 0.3. I don't like kurutoga as much as the tip has a lot of wiggle room, and the lead turning doesn't matter as much when you get to 0.3 and 0.2 lead sizes.
@@ze_or XD sure! gotta check those out, thanks for the info, and it's nice to get replies from you 👍, stay healthy, it's hard nowadays
I could spend days in those shops! So great to be able to sample so many boards and switches in person.
Wow what a beauty! This is just like a treasure for gamers / keyboard enthusiasts! If i visit japan again, i’ll definitely visit this place because it just looks amazing and alot of keyboards to choose from! Planning to stay in Japan in the future!
That's it... I'm moving to Japan. That looks absolutely amazing!
I feel like nothing can be better than my Rapid-i. Still love watching these videos haha
I went to Japan and that’s what got me into mech keyboards. It was great as I could try out everything and feel what sort of switch I liked
Thank you for doing this video! Fascinating stuff
I recognise so much from when I went to Japan! it's kinda creepy actually how many places you went to that I went to.
Absolute classics. You see a lot of those white style keyboards in anime and other Japanese media. Guessing they are popular for people who write/ work using a keyboard.
Yea I live in Brisbane Qld, I went to Japan for around a month and it’s insane how different everything is, we walked passed billboards of anime waifus, hedgehog cafes, and giant 20 story arcades.
Yodobashi also ships to North America. Really cool look at all them keyboards. Yodobashi is so lit.
Mate, if you ever come back, give a shout. What else did you get up to on your trip? Shame you were too early for the meetup this weekend.
Hey man. I was going ask for some advice when I was there, but I procrastinated :(
And this was like before Christmas, but took me a few weeks to get round to editing haha. And just did the standard tourist stuff. (plus the Gundam place)
That's cool. Honestly, Japan isn't the best place for keyboards, but the shops certainly have all the big names. Archiss are doing well now too. At the last Tokyo meetup, there was a rep from Archiss and he was talking about them releasing the board you got, and he even brought one along to try out before it was released.
Awesome! Yeh I emailed Archiss to learn more about them. They're very simple, but I'm a fan of the Retro Tiny, and would love one with the silent reds.
But yeh, they pretty much just have the big brands, with some others.
i wish i was already into mech keyboards when i went to japan. i went all out with the huge selection of headphones
Thanks! Heaven for keyboards junkies
I had 10 hour layover in Narita... I went straight to Akihabara, it was A M A Z I N G. Also went to that keyboard aisle in search of any treasure. Saddly i did not count with enough money 🤣🤣
damn that looks like heaven lol. Nice vid man
that one with the type-writer keycaps was actually a magicforce 68 with different caps, I've seen reviews with that keyboard even with the type-writer caps.
Can't believe I'm watching this in 2020 and being so in shock for seeing this guy touching keyboards all over the place ...... so sad ... lol
Ya and those prices are ridiculous too. $100 or so dollars for a gross looking keyboard smh no thanks
I wish I could go here. Boards would be so readily available and widespread.
I'm Japanese and like this video ! Thank you !
Keyboard heaven!!
I'm going next week! I need to make a decision to what keyboard i have to buy, lol.
You can try every mouse ! I'm in the quest of finding the perfect mouse and this would be SO perfect to be able to try them all, i'm kind of a geek about peripherals and i would love to go there damn it!
If only we had cool stores like that in Australia :(
broo. this is heaven. there are cherry mx keyboards, office mechanical keyboards, gaming mechanical keyboards, vintage mechanical keyboards
In my country, we only have gaming membrane keyboards and office membrane keyboards. I need to go to tokyo once
O O I would love to be in these stores !!
I have been in chiba around 2014 i miss Japan.
Old video I know but just saw it personally. Their shops arr amazing. Saw a guy checking out mice and they literally had every mouse you can imgine on display to check the feel in your hand.
You really should have checked the Ark PC store. They have some more obscure stuff and it's a lot of fun to see everything there!
Probably a long shot, but do you think you saw any JIS-layout Realforce 91U in all-55g weight? There's only 1 model according to the Deskthority and apparently it was a limited edition (200 units).
Also, were there not many 75% keyboards on the shelves? I think the only one I saw in the video was the Matias.
I'm looking for my first mechanical keyboard at the moment and it's a bit overwhelming. I plan to be visiting Japan in a couple of months, so I think I will try and look at a bunch of them in-store as you did. I lived in Japan for a number of years and used to haunt electronic stores, but I never paid much attention to the keyboard sections, partially because I hate the Japanese key layout. Would you say that the English layout was available for many/most of the keyboards?
i visited Japan with my family and i really wanted to go to Akihabara but i got extremely sick and was stuck in the hotel all day while my family went there
No wayy, I had so much trouble finding these stores when I went to Akihabara last year. ;-;
There were that many stores??
I ended up finding stores in osaka namba.
I'll have to go back to akihabara this summer.
Felipe Navarro how can u go so often
I didn't know Logitech has been rebranded Logicool in Japan. While it fits the blue theme perfectly, it now feels more like a company selling refrigerators than high tech gaming devices.
Cool video looks like a great experience :)
0:35 saiki k in the background
Nice catch, missed that
I hope that Malaysia would have place like this. You can really try out the mice before purchase. As I just bought a logitech g pro hero mouse, it seems too small for my liking, but I have no way of trying out before buying. I even asked the shop to let me try, but they simply said no trying will be provided.
Man, I've always wanted to go to Tokyo but this video really pushed me over the edge. Why can't all countries have these awesome places?
Fheed Pexx becus if it did they would go bankrupt thanks to snatchers
Because the culture of japan is very different. It allows places like these.
The culture in America would make it so all this shit gets destroyed or stolen.
I got my archiss fullsize cherry mx browns for only 60bux. what a steal.
do something on SA, DSA, DCS, GMK and all profile keycaps. Would be very interesting!!! Oh and give us a lowdown on zealios. please. it is essential.
There's like a bunch of Sofmap stores in Akhiabara. Can you tell us which one you went to? Like maybe an address? Thanks!
Leopold for life!
id like to see japan one day, hello form america.
filco is one of the best, in terms of built quality and simplicity aesthetics.
what heaven looks like
I need Japan in my life.
ようこそ日本へ
wish i could go there a decade ago..
So this is the kind of place where you can buy supplies for your own builds?
I’ve been in Tokyo. It’s really nice city and if someones thinking about going there, then please go.
Where is the progress touch retro tiny review?😂
Logitech in japan is named Logicool
Do they have a good stock of smd 3 pin switches? If so, I hope they have gateron silent browns
3:39 OMG
I’m really interested in the key caps at 1:34. They’re quite sculpted and the typing face is so concave. Can someone tell me this this profile has a name? I’m not getting the best search results
Epic
Logicool??
4:04 Is that a mouse with Ducky logo?
You didn’t know ducky also made mice?
Do japanese type on standard US layout keyboards? Or...why do they sell so many of them?
Nope: deskthority.net/wiki/ANSI_vs_JIS
They use JIS layout with an ISO Enter
Yeh they use JIS. But they still have the normal ones.
Typically for typing in Japanese, an IME is used. This is far easier in many cases than using straight kana input, mainly because there are roughly half the number of characters in the Latin alphabet as there are in hiragana, plus numbers and punctuation which are often used in Japanese anyway.
With an IME, instead of typing さ, you would type "sa" then confirm. When typing kanji, you would type the reading, such as "chichi", then select the appropriate kanji "父" with the spacebar, then confirm. You can even autofill entire phrases for common ones. Like how typing thank on a smartphone keyboard almost always allows you to autocomplete in you. For a language with multiple character sets like Japanese, this is pretty much ideal. However, if you need to spam ああああああああ or write poetry or something, kana input is pretty great.
Hope that answers your question about a year late!
are there any glorious keyboards to buy in japan?
If you review filco keyboard, please compare it with leopold. Lot of debate between their fan that makes me confuse to see which is better. According to some people, I think all of filco users :v, filco's keycaps stock are very bad, but replace them with good ones, it feels better than leopold...
Akihabara dont do me like that...
hearing it made me remember Steins;Gate
do u remember if the matias keyboard was cheap than australia?
Who's watching in 2020?! Take me to JAPAN!
yo japan be poppin off tho
you should have gone to those stores that sell electronic parts, and looked for mechanical switches
Hmm...Filco Brand...Interesting...look like the same like the other office keyboard like the old membrane keyboard at the office you can see it every time you go to the office
i wish us Americans had as much respect and appreciation for other ppl's stuff as the Japanese and Koreans and I'm sure plenty of others.
you go to a Walmart or best buy here and all the displays are destroyed or missing pieces or missing completely.
No Alps keyboards in Japan of all places?
I'm still shocked that Leopold boards cost more than Topre boards over in Japan.
Exactly the opposite here in Korea lmao
Haha, the perks of having homegrown companies :)How are the stores in Korea? I imagine there's heaps of Leopold's.
surprisingly, not a lot of electronics stores carry mech keyboards, and if they do they're usually razer, zenics, and various gaming companies (almost always with only blue switches)
there are seperate stores that only sell i/o gear, and usually there you can test out a little wider variety of keyboards there, including leopolds.
what Korea's really the home for is, as you could probably tell, custom keyboards. the groupbought / personally designed keyboard housings, pcbs, and various keyswitch mods and knowledgebase here is absolutely MFing phenomenal. especially the OTD 356 mini boards are legends. check em out. also come visit kbdlab.co.kr which is the community I belong to. you can see some amazing galleries of custom boards if you use google translate properly. check out otd.kr also :)
Indeed, the good old Korean customs :)
I'll check out those pages as well. Thanks!
please do! thanks.
If you need any Korean translations for groupbuys and stuff don't hesitate to ask. :)
kbdlab: ZXspectrum
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Can you buy just switches at these stores?
also logitech in japan is Logicool. fun fact
Go to hong kong next time there’s a bunch of mechanical keyboards there
Heaven
Revered Shadow lul
Holy balls Ive been to sofmap before, also when will you do a face reveal?!
Finn Lavelle who cares about a face reveal? People are allowed to be private lol
Cool video. You sound a lot like Daniel Ricciardo.
impressed with japan, not so much on keyboard pricing though.. good thing we have china tho.
Anyone who's an audiophile and is in Japan, head down to Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara and I swear to you, you will not be disappointed.
Happy late Australia Day! I have been to Tokyo before and I'm pretty sure I have went to Bic Camera
Japan is a real life Dreamland.
People think I go to akihabara for the anime stuff when I actually go akihabara for the tech stuff lol
when I tried to film inside of Yodobashi it took 5 seconds before an employee came to me and said I couldn't.
(well, I assume he said that cause he didn't speak english - of course:D)
i wish stuff like this was in the u.s. :(
review the aula f2012 pls
isn't there a 60% Japanese keyboard with a builtin Trackpoint? Trackball?
ALWAYS go big in Japan. And by that I mean 104 keysets.
I’m so late to this video but I’ve always thought he’s had like 1mil
in the nether lands you only have the razer logitech type of brands like keyboards rip
Wow their computers shops have more flair than the shops in North america
RGB Topre I wonder how cheaper they are???
Did you see any noppoo keyboards?
Nope, don't think so :(
Jesus I am afraid of Japan now, I might not be able to control myself and just fill 2 suitcases with as many boards I can get my hands on there as possible
You'll would be worst if you go to Taiwan, Japan akihabara aint that much now a days, since they focused so much in to Anime stuffs rather than electronics
FUCK IDK WHY THIS IS NOSTOLGIC I ONLY WENT TO JAPAN ONCE BUT FUCK
reminds me of Durarara..
2:55 Logicool ???
Lmao
A bit later but that is the name of logitech in japan (original logitech not a japanese copy) ._.
儌 !!!
Can you find the realforce rgb there?
watch the video rofl
R4vel sorry I mean can you find the realforce rgb in bic camera
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