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Akihabara
is a district in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan. The name Akihabara is a shortening of , which ultimately comes from , named after a fire-controlling deity for a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.〔Cybriwsky, Roman. ''Historical dictionary of Tokyo.'' Scarecrow Press, 2011.〕
Akihabara gained the nickname shortly after World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market.〔Nobuoka, Jakob. "User innovation and creative consumption in Japanese culture industries: The case of Akihabara, Tokyo." ''Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography'' 92.3 (2010): 205–218.〕〔Yamada, Kazuhito. ''Entrepreneurship in Akihabara.''〕 Nowadays, Akihabara is considered by many to be an otaku cultural center and a shopping district for video games, anime, manga, and computer goods. Icons from popular anime and manga are displayed prominently on the shops in the area, and numerous maid cafés are found throughout the district.
==Geography==
The main area of Akihabara is located on a street just west of Akihabara Station, where most of the major shops are situated. Most of the electronics shops are just west of the station, and the anime and manga shops and the cosplay cafés are north of them.〔
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