Looks like an old fashioned department store!Due to the massive crash in camera sales their previously major Akiba store now has shrunken their possibly earlier 4 or 5 floors of camera gear to now one floor.
https://www.yodobashi.com/ec/store/list/en and click the floor guide of the store you like and wait for the auto translation of the page.
That seems to be the page to explore the floors of every store but for some reason I cannot access any Yodobashi pages at all right now. OK a FireFox foulup, accessible via Edge.
The Akiba store camera gear now all on the 3rd floor along with a lot of other unrelated stuff.....
Oh the heady days of 2009 and 2011 when I first visited, truly magic store to get lost in, now a feeble version of its old glorious self as far as cameras are concerned.
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QotW What is your favorite camera store?
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We who live in the USA.
What about us who live elsewhere, just reminding you that "we" speak confuses people.
Well I'm not the original user of the we speak in question, however they could have used 'We in the USA' for clarity. Otherwise, it was a good point concerning us Americans and our recent camera gear price hikes.
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They sell anything and everything to stay afloat. Just like camera stores here in Australia also now selling stuff that they never used to. E-scooter, anyone?
In the good old days (2011) we stayed in Kyoto for 8 days and within easy walking distance of the rail station and the Yodobashi building. Favourite floor was the 5th(?) where the restaurants were, and also the basement where there was a great craft store my wife liked.
Yodobashi was a nicer shopping experience for camera gear than the rather irritating BIC Camera stores. BIC too noisy and overwhelming with all the signs and displays.
Another time (2008) I wandered into a store in a shopping arcade in Hiroshima and asked for a Panasonic M4/3 lens, yes got that, then asked for a few other specialised bits and pieces, yes, got all those. Mostly things that were never in stock in real camera stores back in Australia were all on the shelf in Japan in some basically non-camera mixed goods store. Next time in Hiroshima in 2011 the store had gone from Hondori St.
Just for fun, the Torii at Miyajima, usually shot floating in the water, this time floating in tourists....
Using Panasonic LX3 in 2009
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I can go to the National Camera Exchange store in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and find everything in stock that is on my list and a couple of things I did not think of. And if they don't have it, they will get it. They have been great enablers of my photography habit, buying my used gear and selling me the excellent used and new FUJIFILM gear that I have now. What keeps me wanting to go back is the knowledgeable and fun-to-talk-to staff. We're down to two real camera stores in the Saint Paul/Minneapolis metropolitan area. I am incredibly fortunate to live less than eight miles away from the best camera store in Minnesota!
My favourite and least favourite camera store here in Melbourne, Australia, is Ted's Cameras. It’s my favourite because there aren’t many independent camera stores in Australia, and I haven’t had many bad experiences with them.
It’s also my least favourite because when there is a problem, whether with the service or general operations, it tends to depend on the location. And, as I mentioned before, there aren’t many independent camera stores, so I don’t really have much choice but to deal with them.
Of course, I could always order from Amazon or eBay. That’s another option.
It’s also my least favourite because when there is a problem, whether with the service or general operations, it tends to depend on the location. And, as I mentioned before, there aren’t many independent camera stores, so I don’t really have much choice but to deal with them.
Of course, I could always order from Amazon or eBay. That’s another option.
Back in the day there were two main Amiga dealers in Salt Lake. Armadillo Brothers, the larger retail store that had a talking Amiga 500 as the POS terminal computer; and Reid Swensen's Basic Fundamentals. Reid had been in business longer-started selling VIC=20s before the C=64 even came out-and he was the community favorite, despite a small store and definite bric a brac vibe, because he also sold all manner of used computer gear. However the local Commodore rep greatly favored the place with a nicer storefront, to the point of Reid sometimes having to wait for Amigas to go on sale at the store in Cottonwood Mall that also sold them (Different from Armos, which was in a strip mall) then buy 'em there and resell!
Yet another example of Commodore snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Hopefully someone from Lumix is reading this.
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