Nobody Knows Us Better

February, 1981

Every Sunday, they flock to Akihabara, the subway stop in north Tokyo that is elevated above the world's largest electronics market. All the great brands, plus dozens you've never heard of, are stacked to the ceiling and brazenly discounted in open-front, air-conditioned stereo stores that stores that surpass even the crazed American audiophile's wildest imagination. Akihabara, a latter-day labyrinthine street bazaar that extends for blocks away from the subway line, is the world capital of gadg...