Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Everyone knows about Akihabara in Tokyo, but for many years there's been another place where you can find amazing pop culture items and make amazing deals. I decided to explore Nakano Broadway, and see what I could find.
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Nakano Broadway is a shopping mall filled with five floors of geeky stores, primarily a lot of Mandarake stores but also tons of small niche stores. This place has just about everything that you could ever want - anime figures, collectable card games, retro toys, manga, anime, DVDs, and a lot more.
But the thing that makes Nakano Broadway unique in my view is that it's not just filled with the normal figures and pop culture merchandise. This place is by collectors and for collectors. Each store is specialized, with, for example, a store dedicated to Gundam figures, one store dedicated to dolls, one store dedicated to vintage manga, one store dedicated to books, and so on.
I spent way too many hours browsing these stores, and I also spent a fair bit of money on anime figures, t-shirts, manga and other loot. And in this video I try to show you a little bit of everything there is to see in this magnificent geek shopping mall.
Nakano Broadway isn't a secret by far, but it's still less crowded by tourists than Akihabara. And you can definitely find better deals here than in the more popular places. So while it's not a hidden gem, it's still well worth a visit!
Everyone knows about Akihabara in Tokyo, but for many years there's been another place where you can find amazing pop culture items and make amazing deals. I decided to explore Nakano Broadway, and see what I could find.
For more upcoming geeky adventures, make sure you subscribe: youtube.com/@thisisgeeky?sub_confirmation=1
Nakano Broadway is a shopping mall filled with five floors of geeky stores, primarily a lot of Mandarake stores but also tons of small niche stores. This place has just about everything that you could ever want - anime figures, collectable card games, retro toys, manga, anime, DVDs, and a lot more.
But the thing that makes Nakano Broadway unique in my view is that it's not just filled with the normal figures and pop culture merchandise. This place is by collectors and for collectors. Each store is specialized, with, for example, a store dedicated to Gundam figures, one store dedicated to dolls, one store dedicated to vintage manga, one store dedicated to books, and so on.
I spent way too many hours browsing these stores, and I also spent a fair bit of money on anime figures, t-shirts, manga and other loot. And in this video I try to show you a little bit of everything there is to see in this magnificent geek shopping mall.
Nakano Broadway isn't a secret by far, but it's still less crowded by tourists than Akihabara. And you can definitely find better deals here than in the more popular places. So while it's not a hidden gem, it's still well worth a visit!
