Forget Luxury Bristol Brabazon. Japanese stuff !!

[MARU 5137]

D-FORCE Hobby Shop. This is on a built up area with a few businesses around it on the main road and few houses..

Parking close by too.

 

i also went to Akhibara Hobby Shop in Tokyo.. goodness  it has over 5 floors.

[BlrwestSiR]

Wow, what a fantastic trip Maru. I was going to ask if you made it to Akihabara. I went back in 2007. It really is an incredible store.

Happy birthday too!

 

[MARU 5137]

2 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Wow, what a fantastic trip Maru. I was going to ask if you made it to Akihabara. I went back in 2007. It really is an incredible store.

Happy birthday too!

 

Hello Carl,

Thank you for the Birthday  wishes.

Chris to answer you, it's a quiet Birthday at home waiting in to receive a beautiful  Rug  to put on the wood flooring . Not exciting but a necessity. 

Leanardos is nice too.. there's a Hotel that toucan stay next to it...

What a delight thing to have on your hotel doorstep..

And here are more photographs.  There are FIVE floors at Yodobadhi -Akiba .

It opens exactly  at 10.00 hrs and the guard is there to make sure that customers  are let in on time and greeted  everyone.

Of course I visited different floors  and saw what they have to offer......from Wine to Sake to Sake flavored chocolates! Yummy but I don't drink  Alcohol and the purchase was for MY boss !! 

 

Hope you all manage to go to Japan for the Hobby Shops which are fully stocked.

 

[MARU 5137]

This is Hasegawa  building  from the main road. And you then turn left to get there..

There is a train station nearby.

The management  were not friendly or inviting  and refused us to have a look inside but we could look from outside !

There were not much  to see except model kits being moved  out of the warehouse. 

 

Also at the Entrance gateway, there is another one and I'm not sure what that one is too.

Any Ideas gentlemen?

Thank you.

[KevinM]

Very Nice Maru but now I see why the hobbyshop pics quit coming the liquor store

[MARU 5137]

This is on the outside roof of Hasegawa  H.Q.

Does anyone know what it is ..

Sorry about the poor quality of the photograph. 

[BlrwestSiR]

53 minutes ago, MARU 5137 said:

This is on the outside roof of Hasegawa  H.Q.

Does anyone know what it is ..

Sorry about the poor quality of the photograph. 

I think that's an F-104 Starfighter.

[MARU 5137]

30 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said:

I think that's an F-104 Starfighter.

Yes I think you are right.

Thank you.

[GusMac]

34 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said:

I think that's an F-104 Starfighter.

The short wingspan would certainly make it easier to place on a roof like that. Definitely looks like a widowmaker tail.

[MARU 5137]

Thank you Gus.

What about the one near the gateway..any idea what that is please?

[KevinM]

47 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said:

I think that's an F-104 Starfighter.

give the man a cigar!

[PanzerWomble]

Zippergawa ....

[HubertB]

14 hours ago, MARU 5137 said:

This is Hasegawa  building  from the main road. And you then turn left to get there..

There is a train station nearby.

The management  were not friendly or inviting  and refused us to have a look inside but we could look from outside !

There were not much  to see except model kits being moved  out of the warehouse. 

 

Also at the Entrance gateway, there is another one and I'm not sure what that one is too.

Any Ideas gentlemen?

Thank you.

It’s a Fuji KM-2, the Japanese version of the Beech T-34 Mentor, built under licence in Japan.

Hubert

 

[Peterpools]

Maru

Thanks for posting all the photographs. Just a pleasure to see how the Japanese take our hobby so seriously but how incredible clean and neat the country is. 

 

[MARU 5137]

Peter,

Totally... they are very much  enthusiastic   about all sorts of hobbies, from plastic aircraft model aircrafts to Ships, to cars and  Dioramas.

The whole country is extremely  pristine and clean.. you don't find any litter and there are NO trash bins  in public  places, not in restaurants,  not in drinking places(Inns) or in towns and cities.

   

There is NO smoking allowed in streets, rural or otherwise. The Air is SO fresh and you do not walk wafting through other people's smoke!

sidewalks have  round yellow grates with warning telling you "NO SMOKING IN STREET" IN Japanese  & English.

You do not see any cigarette stubs etc..

One takes their trash back home to dispose of or in hotels trash bins if like ME you stated in hotels.

Even hobbyist  who collect bugs..are enthusiastic  !!

 

They have training and guidance instructions  for any Earthquake  that may occur.

Children are taken from school to experience  the simulation of an Earthquake  by going inside these educational  white Earthquake  Vans.

Also it is for adults and foreigners  who have never been in an Earthquake  unless of course you are from California  and other such places. The gentleman  (the Caucasian  ) caught in MY camera is Meindert..you may have seen his contributions  on other forum ( LSP).

 

The Japanese  pride themselves  in keeping  everything  pristine,  clean and as yo7 can see their Fire Engine and Fire Engine  House  is IMMACULATE. 

You do not see utility vehicles with dirty exterior  nor any other vehicles, privately-owned  or otherwise. Bicycles are properly  parked as are electric  scooters.

I absolutely  loved  seeing how clean it was.

It's a VIRGO's Heaven !!

And not a Pot Hole on the roads in sight. Motorways kept tidy and amazingly  clean...perfection !!

I wish the roads in MY country were like that... and overgrown foliage  cut down.

in the photograph  of the Tokyo Tower, kids  are playing Baseball and their coach  is nearby.

[MARU 5137]

On 9/21/2024 at 9:43 AM, HubertB said:

It’s a Fuji KM-2, the Japanese version of the Beech T-34 Mentor, built under licence in Japan.

Hubert

 

Ah thank you Hubert. Great knowledge you have.

Thank You Sir.

[MARU 5137]

Ooh I forgot to mention....

I bought Books from  the Akihabara  store(5 floors of variety of goods from Books, to model kits to cameras and  suitcases  and wine  and wine filled chocolates  !! etcetera etcetera etcetera)..some Amazing  photographs  inside the books....