Japan Game Junk

Another Tokyo Hard Off, this one being the Akiruno city branch visited on August 14, 2024! I BOUGHT A MAGIC EIGHT BALLLLLLLLLL

It is a unique Hard Off in Hamura, Tokyo, as visited on August 14, 2024! Half the store has construction equipment and junk! It is near a US military base! I regret not buying an adapter that would allow me to utilize the third most common format of Hudson-produced game cards!

On August 12, 2024, I again visited a WonderGoo branch that very few tourists would see, being the one in Shimotsuke, Tochigi prefecture. It's just so out there! Still, I got a nice controller for a bad console so go get one too if you want to drive into the country hinterland of Tochigi.

The newest Hard Off in Japan, located in Funabashi, Chiba prefecture, as visited on August 11, 2024! It was clean and nice. Nichibutsu!

An elegy is in order for the Surugaya in Yokohama. Visited on August 11, 2024, for the first time there were no treasures to uncover. Now crowded with foreign tourists, the prices have increased and locals only enjoy the appliances and cheap large items not fitting in the baggage of an international flight.

The second Mandai Shoten visited in one day, this one is the store in Iwatsuki ward of Saitama city! While the game sales area has shrunk, it still is worth a peek for interesting items. Go grab a Neo Geo Pocket Color or something.

Hellooooo and hear as I talk about Mandai Shoten in Kawagoe city, Saitama prefecture, as visited on July 26, 2024. The 2nd floor stuff recently moved to the first floor! I got some cheap junk game discs! Serial Experiments Lain was so expensive!

A store visited on its day of grand opening of July 26, 2024, this is Momotaro Kingdom in the Hashimoto area of Sagamihara city, Kanagawa prefecture! It's kind of nice and has a few interesting items and I got a free drink!

A true must-visit store, as visited on July 21, 2024! This is the Hard Off located in Kimitsu, Chiba, and it is the most south-easterly Hard Off in Japan. It is noteworthy to have some very rare systems available, sometimes unseen anywhere else in the country, and this visit surely lives up to the expectation. Plus I get a second copy of F1 Circus on the PC Engine!!!!!!!!!

On July 6, 2024, I visited the Hard Off store at the Across Plaza in Yamanashi city in Yamanashi prefecture and it is worth a visit! The long regretted lack of a Sanyo 3DO purchase aside, I always find stuff to enjoy. Including a TV Boy! Yes!