Akihabara Electric Town
is really Akihabara, Tokyo, Tokyo
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
One of the districts of Tokyo City, the biggest urban area in any Forza Horizon game. The art director calls it a buzzing retail hub that feels electric whenever you drive through.
The real place
Akihabara grew out of a post-war market for radio parts and became Tokyo's Electric Town, packed with electronics shops. Today it is just as famous for anime, manga, games and maid cafes along Chuo-dori.
Visiting
Chuo-dori is closed to cars on Sunday afternoons and turns into a pedestrian street. Come after dark for the full wall of signs, and look into the multi-storey arcades and retro game shops on the side streets.
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