IDG News Service in Tokyo produced this review of our Tokyo Realtime tour of Akihabara for their monthly online TV show, Akibatteru, which focuses on the worlds of Japanese anime, manga, figures, robots and gadgets in and around Akihabara.
Jump to 3m09s for the Tokyo Realtime segment.
To find out more about Tokyo Realtime, please visit www.tokyorealtime.com
Photo © Max Hodges
Tokyo Vice author Jake Adelstein was recently interviewed on ABC Radio Australia. Jake, a member of the Japan Subculture Research Center, was asked to comment on the news that upcoming mass-redundancies at the national carrier Japan Airlines would lead to a sudden surge in demand for stewardess uniforms.
In the interview Jake mentions White Rabbit Press’ Tokyo Realtime: Kabukicho audio guided tour, in which the listeners learn about Sky Heart – a former club where clients, relaxing in airline seats, would be served by women dressed in genuine stewardess’ uniforms.
Join White Rabbit Press for our insider’s tour of Akihabara!
If you have one hour free on Sunday 14th March 2010 why not come along to Akihabara for a behind-the-scenes exploration of the area’s must see spots?!
Here at White Rabbit Press we’re looking for people who’d be interested in taking our new mp3 audio walking tour of the area, and telling us what they think of it.
To thank you for your time you’ll receive a free copy of the tour (which comes with a photo booklet and map), and a big smile.
The tour is narrated by Patrick Galbraith (editor of ‘The Otaku Encyclopedia’) – he’ll be joined along the route by a team of expert commentators who’ll all help paint a complete picture of the area.
We’ve mixed the narration, directions and commentary with sound effects and music, making it into a unforgettable augmented reality experience.
At the end of the 57-minute tour we’d like to ask you a few questions about what you thought of it, that we can then use in a short video for YouTube.
If you’d like to take part, simply contact us via our support site or comment on this blog post and we’ll send you a special download link and further instructions – you’ll need to copy that mp3 to your iPod / any other mp3 player before showing up on Sunday.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Japan’s No.1 free English language magazine, Japanzine, recently published a review of White Rabbit Press’ Tokyo Realtime audio tours.
“Getting to know Tokyo’s most interesting wards is one of the great pleasures of living in Japan, though it can be a haphazard process that takes years of trial, error, more error and disorientation (not to mention stacks of ichi-man-en bills).
Enter Tokyo Realtime Audio Guided Walking Tours, an ingenious new series of products designed to introduce you to areas of the capital – beginning with Akihabara and Kabuki-cho – by means of the spoken word and simple English-language maps.”
You can download your own copy of Japanzine from the Seek Japan website.
The New York Post recently reviewed White Rabbit Press’ Tokyo Realtime guided audio tours.
“If everything you know about Tokyo you learned from a Ranma ½ marathon, you need help. And it’s here, in the form of mp3-player-friendly audio.
Tokyo Realtime ’s guides (order on CD or download directly) give you a serious insider’s walking tour of the 東京’s wackiest, seediest and geekiest hoods. The first in the series, narrated by a researcher of otaku (anorakism) at Tokyo University, explores Akihabara — a k a “electric town” — the city’s top stop for all things gamer, manga and cosplay related (this being Tokyo, that’s saying something).
Packing in even more of the awesome, though, is the tour of the Kabukicho area, Tokyo’s red-light district. Interviews with bar owners and a bondage artist, among others, take you through a world populated by Yakuza, hookers and pay-per-hour hotels — makes Bangkok look like Salt Lake.
Besides the hour-long audio, each $12/$18 Tokyo Realtime guide comes with a map and photo book. Order online here.