Akihabara is famous for it's electronics stores and anime. On the main road, Antec has its shown showroom not unlike an Apple store (though it was closed today). Places like Sofmap sell tons of new PC parts, and there are even real electronics stores that are stacked floor to ceiling with meters, tools, electric adapters, and spools of every kind of wire imaginable.
The back streets are where it gets interesting. Store after store has bins of used or extremely low cost parts, obviously binned from recycled PCs and laptops. Some of the stores even just listed the brand, part number, and price lists on huge signs out front which made shopping convenient. Guys were checking prices via cell phones and calling people to verify if something was a good deal or not. And, even though Nintendo's been taking legal action against the some developers (or importers?) of hardware that allows pirated games to run on the DS you could certainly find multiple types of them for sale here. Those usb2/sata/ide adapters were even the equivalent of about $10 at some places.
Finally on the tech front, walking behind I think the main Sofmap store, they honestly had a poster on how to properly wire up RJ-45 keystone jacks! Ok, enough on the tech...
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