What other travelers are saying about GiGO Akihabara
What a wonderful blast to the past 🫶🏻 Each floor is dedicated to a specific genre of arcade games, and the space was sprawling with loads of machines. I had so much fun here even by myself! You can play multiple rounds of a rhythm game for just 100 yen — No wonder the arcade hobbyists can spend hours here. I also tried a driving simulator which surprisingly had 4D rocking effects. This arcade is the perfect place to end your night if you’re in the Ueno/Akihabara area.
GiGO Akihabara offers a variety of games including classic arcade machines, claw cranes, rhythm games, and the latest video game titles across multiple floors.
GiGO Akihabara is situated in the heart of Akihabara, a major shopping area for electronics and otaku culture in Tokyo. It is easily accessible from the JR Akihabara Station.
There is no entry fee to visit GiGO Akihabara. Visitors pay per game or activity they wish to enjoy within the arcade.
Probably the best arcade in Akihabara. 6th floor has many classics like Outrun, House of the Dead 1-4 (and Typing of the Dead!), A wildly immersive police shooter, and many tabletop classics. There is also a seating area to rest and enjoy vending machine drinks. The other floors are what you expect from akihabara arcades: claws, rhythm, and racing.
Amazing and worth the visit. The retro 90s floor was in my opinion the best. They even have places to sit and eat with vending machines. They have change machines on every floor but we couldn’t find a place to use standard foreign credit cards to get cash, so you can bring your own. We did spend the time on how to figure out the game card, games were 200yen
The 6th floor has lots of fun retro arcades, like Type of the Dead, Time Crisis I and II and many more racers, DDR and bizar ones like Final Furlong where you race on plastic horses.
On a Monday afternoon it was not busy at all.
All games are ¥100, or ¥200 for the special ones.
6 floors of fun. Claw crane machines are very weak and seem to be scammy. Nevertheless we had a lot of fun with the arcade machines in the upper floors.
We played Airhockey, Mario Kart and some other games. Just be aware that its quite noisy in there.
Also very fun to see the pros playing with the machines. There are machines to change bank notes to coins
