My personal favorite shop in the Kansai region is the Ninomiya store
that is in front of Enmachi station (From Kyoto Station, take Sagano/San-In line to
Enmacchi) granted, it is a little far from Osaka, but... come on... experience
the culture of Kyoto ^_-. Anywhoo, there is a used video game shop on the
second floor of that building called, "Move" and they offer various used video
games, CDs, DVDs, etc. I picked up Y's IV for Y980. In addition, they had the
usual assortment of wonderful used consoles. They had a used
Supergraphix, used PC-FX, used Neo Geo, Virtual On twin-sticks for Sega Saturn for Y930, a fairly
decent selection of PC Engine games (if I recall, they had about 35-45 titles
in stock), and a rather intimidaing selection of classic Famicom games.
Should you go out of your way to go to Niyomiya? I don't know. But if you are
headed anywhere toward Kyoto and have a couple of minutes to spare, go
for it. >
> >In 2 weeks I'm going to Japan for vacation and I'm hitting Osaka for the
> >first time... Any tips on shops? I know 4-5 good ones in Akihabara from
> >last time I was there, so I'll be hitting those too, but I know Osaka
> >has a "similar" area so I'm hoping for good shopping...
>
> >Rob
>
> you'll find that osaka has its own mini-version of akihabara called
> nihom-bashi (or something like that). takumi suidu showed it to me a
> few years ago and it's pretty impressive. many of the shops are
> similar to those in akihabara but they are cheaper (by about 10% or so)
> and, jsut as importantly, you'll very likely find things you won't see
> in akihabara. i remember seeing Bandai Pippin's, Playdia's,
> Colecovision DINA's, FM Towns Marty's,and lots of Japanese 3DO
> software, and much more. i don't know why that is exactly but,
> fortunately for you, you'll find all of these shops clustered together
> akihabara style. enjoy! george
>