Forum - View topicINTEREST: Multilingual Akihabara Guide App Released for iOS
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Sailor S
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That would have been pretty useful when I was out there in 2007. I suppose if I were more adventurous and just walked into shops without worrying that it was the wrong one then I could have found more places that I wanted to see though.
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FMAvatard
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Sounds pretty useful for foreigners and natives alike. So...does it have shops programmed in the system or is like Eden of the East where you point that camera at something and it tells you all about it?
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sailorsean
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ANN just found this out? I installed the app about a month ago. It is pretty useful, although I feel as if it's missing some important details...
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Redlinks
Posts: 496 Location: America |
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Same for me but I was there in 2009 and I may be going again in December 2011, so hopefully I'll get to use this. x3 |
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Gilles Poitras
Posts: 481 Location: Oakland California |
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Question for those who have it. Does it include cultural details such as the location of the small inari shrine in the middle (literally) of the block near the Don Quijote store?
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grooven
Posts: 1428 Location: Canada |
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Would have been useful in 2001 but they didn't have a need for apps or what not.
Any rate there are plenty of written guides that had existed since 2001 on the net and in print (how else did I find out about everything). Obviously there are changes like the 1st Gamers that used to be beside K-books. Things change on a dime. This would just make it easier since there are so many changes. But wouldn't a gps have the same things? Maybe in no so much detail. I suck more at directions than anything else. |
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Brent Allison
 Posts: 2444 Location: Athens-Clarke County, GA, USA |
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Like Sailor S, last I was in Akiba was 2007. Not knowing my way around was part of the adventure, although it did involve my stopping another Anglophone to ask for directions. Besides, if I had this app, I wouldn't have been able to talk with a fellow American about how to avoid Akiba electronics rip-offs...or maybe he was Canadian.
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mdo7
 Posts: 6399 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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They're going to need to add French, Italian, and Russian because there are French speakers, Italian speakers, and Russian speakers anime fans that need this when they go to Japan. |
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Jrittmayer
 Posts: 304 Location: New Jersey |
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Seems useful, at least much easier to use than a map and written locations and such
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enurtsol
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Google apps already does that. |
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