Yesterday I was walking in Odaiba. I love the view from Tokyo Bay at night from there. However, it was a bit chilly, so on my way back home I decided to walk inside the DECKS shopping mall instead of the avenue outside. There on the second floor of the mall I found a shopping area decorated as the Tokyo from the 1950s. It’s called the Daiba 1-chome shopping street (台場一丁目商店街, Daiba 1-chome shotengai). In all my years in Tokyo I had never been here. I don’t know for how long it has been here, but it’s a very nice place. There are restaurants, a food court, shops where you can buy old clothes, a candy shop… all of them with an atmosphere that reminds the 50s.
I liked the place. Especially, I liked a retro game center with game machines ranging from the 70s to the early 90s.
Unfortunately I didn’t have my Nikon DSLR camera with me. I took photos with my iPhone, but the quality is quite bad because of the bad lightning. Most of the photos are from the retro game center.
Photo gallery after the pause. Enjoy.
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- REALLY retro.
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- This arcade was known as “Kung-fu Master” in Europe during the 80s.
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- Still showing Compile in the credits. I loved this game on my MSX2!
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- Who are they? Does anyone know the names of these talents?
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- You could buy old-style Coca-Cola bottles on this machine!
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- In this shop you could buy food, candy, drinks…
I <3 the gradius arcade machine…
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