Day 18 - Nakano Broadway and Juke 80s

On Thursday, we headed for old school nerd city, Nakano Broadway. This is the one place I was really looking forward to. Nakano Broadway is another shopping bizaar (imagine that!?!?) dedicated to vintage toys and other nerd stuff. I spent a fair chunk of change and thinking back, I probably should have bought a few more things, especially posters from the vintage poster shop that has stuff you pay a mint for here in the States or on eBay. I picked up a really nice original Japanese Mad Max 2 poster for like $50. Awesome.

This is what it looks like.

Mario is the king of vintage gaming.

This is lunch. This is from one of those places with the machines at the front door where you pick your meal, pay for it, it prints tickets you hand to the waitress, after you give them to her, your food comes. It's a very straight-forward system that expedites the dining experience nicely.

Linda's meal. Those pork cutlets were greasy and hell and delicious.

Vintage mini Spectreman and Space Apeman Gori. Have a look at those prices.  That's right, about $700 USD for the set of little guys. 0_o

This is the Mandarake on the top floor of Nakano Broadway. I like to call it Mandarake Super Takai. The inside contains a beautiful display of vintage toys in glass cases, some of which reach the tens of thousands of dollars in price. Wow.

Lots of vintage Sato-chans.

Another view into Mandarake Super Takai.

I like the original old-school Sato-chan as well.

After Nakano, we were wiped, but we didn't want to go back to Shinjuku yet, so we walked over to Juke 80s.

Juke 80s is brilliant.  You have two books of music at your table you can request songs and music videos from. The videos are played on a projector for everyone to enjoy. When we got there, it was early and we got to request a ton of cool videos. It was really fun. Something like this in the States would be cool, but I bet the copyright police would put the smack down on it.

We were having a good time, so we decided to just eat Juke 80s bar food for dinner. Check out the funny menu.

Another chimney behind us.

Prizza.

A view of the joint. Not very big, and it got packed for a while.

No charge, no tax, no problem!