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Style never goes out of fashion. Lack of style never comes into fashion, so likewise can never go out, I suppose.

A cluster of nerds sticks together like their ill-fit zippies are made of velcro.

Sega Akihabara’s Building 3 has drawn a crowd and turned a head.

This lightboxed canyon’s skyscraper terrain has Taito’s monster crabbing earthwards, brainless. Slippery-clean treelined boulevard. Sixlane thoroughfare and bridging tracks. Incomprehensible everyday Akiba, seething, waiting for the night air to crack.

If you’re nervous to drag that form out the house, get here. The ‘Ba welcomes all shapes of slouch.

Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people