Otaku & Their Cafe's

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[CaptOblivious]

(Edited poll so the responses made sense.)

[ShinCanadaSen]

Man, I wish there was something like this in my neighborhood. My wife would always be wondering where I was !!!!!!

[to2leo]

Man, I wish there was something like this in my neighborhood. My wife would always be wondering where I was !!!!!!

 

Hahaha at least she knows you are not meeting with another love interest...

[Tecchan]

Somehow... I'm one of them, so I don't see a reason not to! :-)

[KenS]

I think that's a place you'd go with other like-minded silly otaku. But a large crowd of them might be a bit intimidating.  And as a way to test some trains you just bought over lunch or drinks, that seems like a pretty nice place.

 

However, it was strangely deserted, and neither of them seemed like train otaku, despite the silly choo-choo walk on the way in (one claimed to have "one" train, the other none; how many of us have just one?).

[Martijn Meerts]

It's not really much different than being part of a model train club in my opinion, with the exception that this seems to be a bit more public. Although, how many non-train fans would visit a place like that anyway :)

 

 

However, it was strangely deserted, and neither of them seemed like train otaku, despite the silly choo-choo walk on the way in (one claimed to have "one" train, the other none; how many of us have just one?).

 

Hmm... Even if I narrow things down a lot, I still have problems with having only one. I guess if I narrow it down to non-prototypical, Japanese models, I can say I only have 1 of them (The Galaxy Express from the TV series, but then again, that one's based on a real prototype.....)

[Bernard]

I wonder what the fees are to go there. It seems like you can buy a cup of coffee and spend hours there but they must have a rental fee for the track otherwise it might be hard to stay in business.

[cteno4]

to be fair these guys seem like they are japan experience video otaku, not train otaku! they were just documenting it for not train folks and were not train folks themselves.

 

i expect this group would be considered tetsudō otakus! i mean we take it a step further, instead of just limiting it to renting a little time on a shop layout we spend all the money and devote the room and time to having it in our own homes! then we spend hours online talking about it...

 

did seem a little dead, wonder if it was just a bad time of day or they did it on purpose to make the videoing easier with fewer people in there.

 

i must say its more attractive place for me to hang out than a starblechs! could become a fun sort of clubhouse/meeting place for folks like us! sort of a physical jns! keep hoping to get my basement into shape to have it as a sort of place like this for the jrm folks to drop by to spend an hour or two running some trains, have a beer, and fix trains or fiddle with stuff in the shop.

 

cheers

 

jeff

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I'm talking to a bunch of J-chicks who are really in to cat cafes.

 

[to2leo]

I think this youtube video on the cafe was discussed a while back in this forum?  And someone did mention it went down not long after .  The good news is there are quite a number of them in Japan.