THE BEST ARCADE IN AKIHABARA! 

when gamers die, this is what heaven will look like for them

Akihabara is literally heaven on earth. Oh how I wish I could go back.

The third floor seems like heaven almost teared up here at it's beauty.

That streetfighter intro at the 6 minute mark had me pumped up. I miss the days of putting a quarter on the cabinet screen as a form of “i’m next”. Thank you for this amazing video.

I love these videos. I'd like to see the variety of Arcades in different neighborhoods. The second floor of Taito HEY would keep me busy for hours...

For those asking, most normal single cab games cost around 100 yen a play. Claw machines and the big gundam machines can go from 300 yen plus

I live in Japan and I go very often to akihabara. I know lot of good place but this arcade center I never entered. Thank you I’ll go as fast as possible!

Spent the whole day here. Hands down my favourite. Old school

8:11 you took me back to 1994 with the STREET FIGHTER II MOVIE commercial for SSFII. That "Cry" song was awesome. Ah, the memories😊

Loved the first person perspective of not only the arcade but also just general street views. Very good look into everyday life :) And the commercials were great bonuses!

Damn, you weren’t joking about this place, wish I’d known about it when my wife and I were in Tokyo last year (on our honeymoon!). We only found claw games and strange modern games which look like the stuff on floor 4 of Hey. Love 90’s shoot ‘em ups in particular.

So cool. My son is really into gaming and arcades. Just like i was/am... would love to make a trip and do this with him when hes old enough

I've been collecting arcade PCB board shooters for 12 years now, and some of the shooters seen in this video I can now play for free in the comfort of my dojo, Battle garegga, batsugun, progear etc. Retro will never die!

Another cracking vid Jim,love these roaming about ones.

My favorite part of Taito HEY is the basement

totally agree, HEY is Akihabaras best arcade, when I have friends visit, this is the usual first stop in town.

Ahhhh take me back to japan 😭💔

I remember walking into this place. Every game you spent months mastering when your friend finally was bored playing it.... walking into this place... just a big firetruck water hose full of them.. It's just mind blowing.

lord that's intense, I'd probably spend a majority of my time just deciding what to play...and then defaulting to SF lol..

If I ever became rich, screw fancy cars. I want a bunch of American and Japanese arcade cabinets @.@ All those variety of shmups, so delicious.

finally a good selection of old games, beutifull arcade!

Walks across a street. Immediately hears Love Live! Ah, it's like heaven on earth there...

@4:26 CITY HUNTER!!!! City Hunter UFO prizes!!!! I am an absolute FAN of City Hunter!!!!! Okay, I had to get that off my chest, this is Arcade Heaven!!! I live in Florida U.S.A. and arcades are basically extinct!!! My, "Things to do list while in Japan" is almost complete. Sega arcades Taito Hey! arcades Akihabara Prefecture Yodobashi Camera - the main building- Gundam Cafe Tamiya Model Headquarters building Ghibli Museum Shinkansen bullet train - the Nozomi series trains - Snow trip to Hokkaido .........................and eating delicious food!!!

Rediscovered your channel after years. Thanks for keeping it up!

stayed here for ten days 10 months back. Explored every nook and cranny of the town

Greetings from Indonesia🇮🇩, Souheast Asian. This is My Favorite Japanese🇯🇵 Arcade Racing Game (2000s) : 1.湾岸ミッドナイトWangan Midnight Maximum Tune (at minute 2:00 and 4:20) 2.頭文字D (Initial D) Arcade Stage 3.Mario Kart Arcade GP, GP 2, GP DX 4.Battle Gear 2, 3, 4, and 4 Tuned (at minute 4:16) 5.Dead Heat Arcade 2010 6.SEGA Race TV 7.SEGA World Drivers Championship ----------------------- 👍👍👍👍👍

i know back in the days as streetfighter and kof 94 came out,it was crazy.

I love how every floor of that arcade is dedicated to one specific genre.

Thanks KidShoryuken, love the videos and thanks for taking me back! Love that your videos show a lot of interest without being over the top, also love the Japanese adverts. Awesome!

Yes love it 👍 especially the fighting games section

Just stumbled across.your channel and could not be more grateful I did. The style of the channel is excellent. Big fan of the exploration vids. Thanks for the posts.

Love your videos, particularly the video arcade ones! I'm coming for my 3rd visit to Japan this April and will be sure to visit this Taito HEY arcade. Thank you!

Wow i love this video and the arcade is so nice big screen and all the retro games is still there.

Hey Jim, love these video tours around Japan. Definitely my dream vacation.

There was a racing game i used to play in the arcade in the mall by my school it was a japan drift race game where the chair you sat in moved as you drift and you actually had to down shift turns and all that good stuff long story short i never saw it again and i don't remember the name.

I would be intetested in more arcade videos! Enjoyed Akiba when I went a few years ago and would like to see more arcades to explore in Japan.

I had been hoping I could find a youtube channel that visited arcades in japan like this. Keep up great work

I love all the gods just kinda going ham on the rhythm games. It's beautiful.

I keep watching thos video over and over. Please make more just like this one! I love seeing all the arcades including the lesser known obscure ones

almost every shmup ever made, driving games, fighting games AND BEMANI?! you weren't kidding!! I love these walk around videos from Japan!

Man, this is such an amazing arcade. Great video!

These videos are always welcome, Jim.

this was a dope video. when you said you can play the different variety games, if you want, but you choose fighting games i felt that lol.

I was really geeking out over this. Thanks for sharing!

Dude seriously, thanks for this cool video. Geez I miss playing fighting games in an arcade here in the US. In my opinion, playing against people online has nothing on the arcade experience. Knowing how I am I'd be at that arcade almost everyday. lol

Wow they seem to have all the classic shooters - I could spend days there. Thanks for sharing.

Loved this thanks for the tour great quality all the best :)

Oh man this makes me so bittersweet about my local arcade closing, and even places like the laundromat getting rid of their cabinets. I’m just happy such a place exists.

Thanks for posting these!

So cool to see all this. Great music selection as well!

The home of retro gaming!

Heaven for boys 😎

So glad I found your channel. I plan on moving back to Japan in the next couple years, and watching your videos are really building the hype lol.

Yes please make it a regular thing,,,also a couple pachinko parlors would be cool too

l was very glad l found this arcade while visiting Japan. Most of the others had a ton of claw machines, those games that used cards, rythm games etc. whch l dont really care for. this one had all the classics, had a great time there, especially the fighting games floor

I remember when i was a kid and i wanted to work at an Arcade Center called "Sacoa" once i grew up. A part of my died when they closed that place.

While I was really impressed by the second floor and all the Shmups, the third floor is where I'd spend all day every day! Your video takes me back to when arcades were a thing in the US, and people would line up to play the latest fighting game. "I got next!", **places quarter or token on game** LOL! Thanks for sharing, your videos are always great!

Great video! I can't believe almost all of those Egret 2 cabs using Egret 3 control panel. I've been looking for a 2-player Egret 3 panel for a while for my cab. Now I know they are all in this arcade, lol.

Great Video! I love HEY game center in Akihabara! When I visited Japan the first time I found my gaming Nirvana there. Haha. In Germany this kind of gaming culture died and was buried already a long time ago. The second floor of HEY is just amazing. You can play through the complete history of STGs. :D Best games in my opinion: Batsugun, Guwange, DDP Daioujou and Tatsujin Ou. HEY is equally good as Mikado game centre at Takadanobaba station. Similar games but less crowded and they have some pinball machines. I would appreciated it a lot, if you would make a video about this one too. :D I love Tokyo... miss it so much!

The staff at these arcades are so nice. When I was at our honeymoon, I was trying to get this cat plush toy for my wife but I kept dropping it. The guy saw me trying so hard to get it, he moved the toy so it was dangling over the hole. I managed to get it after that. I was so happy I shook his hand and thanked him :)

Man... So many games from my youth & childhood (@v@) Nostalgic...

Glad to hear Mega Man 8 getting some love with the Astro Man stage music haha

Love this video! I've been to Tokyo twice and stayed in Akihabara both times because that's where the best nerd stuff is. If you like retro game centers I highly recommend Natsuge Museum which is close to the Tokyo Metro Akihabara station (a few doors away from my favourite ramen shop, Menya Musashi Bujin). More videos like this, please!

oh my God, I went to Akihabara for at least 4 days and didn't know this place exists! I will def gonna go there again (planning my 3rd visit in 2020 or 2021) thanks for the video!

This is the best one yet! Let's see some more!

Dude you always pick good background music but that Astro Man theme's got me playing Rockman 8 again. XD

Def need more of these.

When I think of japan I think of a city filled with buildings covered in japanese signs, ramen filling the air, and video game arcades

I wish Arcades were still around and plentiful in America. Or at least in my hometown. I am really impressed with this Arcade. Would love to go to Akihabara some day, but I'm sure I'll have to settle with going to Ground Kontrol in PDX some time I guess,which is fne, because that's also a dream of mine.

Euphoria! I loved the fact that you did this review. When you played Astro Mans song, I lost my mind. Legit!

ooohh these memories : ) thank you for your video. I guess I would spend a lot of time in arcades when I would visit Japan : ))))

I did enjoy this place when I was in Akihabara

Whoa, never though this place exists, now if only I got the money to go to Japan once again. Would like to try playing Prichan someday in that 4th floor.

I love this arcades, could spend my whole day in it.

Good stuff! Looking forward to checking out these places!

The sound of an arcade the sound of an ecosystem, something never change

Tokyo seems like such an awesome place, to bad it's one of the world's most expensive cities to live in.

As a fighting game player this arcade looks so fucking fun, I envy the fact that you were able to go here.

Great video, your channel is underrated!

Thanks for sharing this. That arcade looks great, and it even has Melty Blood!

WOW. SO COOL, IT'S LIKE I WAS ALMOST THERE. WUD DEFO LUV TO SEE MORE OF THESE STYLE VIDS CHECKING OUT THE OTHER ARCADES. WISH SUMONE MADE VIDS LIKE THIS OF THE ARCADES IN THE WEST BEFORE THEY ALL CLOSED DOWN, FOR THE HISTORY RECORD & NOSTALGIA, OH WELL LOL. P.S. DIGGIN UR TASTE IN GAMES & MUSIC CHOICE & THOSE AD BREAKS WERE PURE COMEDY XD =)

Best arcade in Akihabara. I remembering standing in front of it and saying to my group "Hey... It's HEY Arcade!" and then I ran out of money on my suica card, thankfully there is a refill kiosk inside.

I'm planning on going to Japan and visiting here. Your videos will be extremely useful.

I just found your channel and I love it. Your commercial cuts are FANtastic bro. Were do you find all the footage?

This is my favorite arcade in Tokyo, in my last trip to Japan I went there a lot just to play fighting games (especially Guilty Gear) when I needed to relax from all the walking.

Glad City Hunter is back

Nearly cried as soon as I saw Akihabara again D': I miss that country so much. I'm not much of an arcade game kinda guy but I loved the UFO catchers there

6:34 blazeblue❤

Thanks for sharing this. The place looks amazing!

Great channel, love the remixed music

Great video! You should def do more like this! I hope to go to Japan myself one day and see these kinds of places in real life.

This is getting me hyped up for my trip to Japan in November!!

Hey Jim, I love seeing content like this. All those Viewlix Cabinets in the Wild. I like seeing beautiful exotic Arcade Cabinets in their natural habitat. I respect how you walked around observing the indigenous population without pushing your western beliefs on them. You have a healthy respect for your fellow man in that regards. I was thinking 🤔 Some people like 🦒 Animal Planet. I get all that, but that’s ghey. More concrete Jungle uploads. 😜 I have never seen those old school Street Fighter Commercials. That was awesome. I was a poor American Kid, ya know? Ryan Boundless really left Mom in a bad spot. I resorted to being like a Rio Kid. I had to scrounge for handouts in the Taco Bell drive thru just to play Street Fighter. Sorry I always take people on side quest. Keep being a free bird 🦅 #JusticeJim #Spray #FreeMarc #AndySan #TkyoSamFam

Project Justice machine is how I measure if the arcade is good.

Im hoping to work in Japan after June because it's definitely my type of place given what goes on there. Im in Spain for 6 months at the minute and hopefully that will be enough experience for me to secure ESL work over in Japan! Im definitely going to visit Akihabara when I go there! This looks awesome!

Whoa 12:00 I got that when was a child in the 80s , great

Yo! looking at all of those, i can tell thats def the best arcade! I cant believe i missed that while i was there! I was only a few doors down at Sega and didnt see that one! Next time ill be there for sure though! Thanks for the vid man. I saw some blaze blue/ guilty gear action and that sold me lol

Looks like heaven

excellent video looks like a really great place to go to and shooters are my favorite also i love them

God, the music games and fighting games could occupy me for ever. Just sit and play gundam and tekken games with some street fighter that fourth floor too... Db heroes and fate games. My god i want to go there