Yodobashi Camera Co. opened one of the country’s largest consumer appliance stores in Tokyo’s Akihabara district on Friday. Located in a nine-story building, “Multimedia Akiba” features 23,800 sq. meters of sales space for some 600,000 items, including home appliances, computers and toys (and cell phones — Ed.) 

The company has a dedicated website for this new mega-store Here [in Japanese]

You can also see some photos and comments from Q-Taro on this blog posting.

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