Imai Building

Floor by floor

1. 8FTop floor, leased as a whole floor for office or shop use; nothing in this guide
2. 7FLeased as a whole floor for office or shop use; nothing in this guide
3. 6FAn office floor of about 33.2 tsubo occupied by the head office of Imai Printing, the company the building is named after; there is no shop to visit
4. 5FMercard Akihabara 2nd Store
5. 4FTrading Card Shop 193 AkihabaraA floor of about 49.8 tsubo that Trading Card Shop 193 on 2F also uses as its tournament and event space; Bushiroad's certified-store list and the hololive card game dealer list both give 4F as the address of 193 Akihabara, on the same phone number as the 2F shop
6. 3FLeased as a whole floor of about 54 tsubo (180 m2) for office or shop use; nothing in this guide
7. 2FTrading Card Shop 193 Akihabara
8. 1FThe street entrance and lift hall; the leased space on this floor holds no shop covered by this guide
9. B1FAkihabara ZEST

Stores

Building hours

No hours cover the whole building. Trading Card Shop 193 on 2F keeps the longest day, 12:00-21:00 on weekdays and 10:00-20:00 at weekends and holidays, and Mercard 2nd Store on 5F is 13:00-20:00 on weekdays and 11:00-20:00 at weekends and holidays. Akihabara ZEST in the basement is not a walk-in venue: it opens only on days with a booked live or event. A weekend afternoon is the safe window for catching both card shops in one visit.

Getting there

Six to seven minutes from the JR Akihabara Electric Town Exit (電気街口). Cross Chuo-dori and take the narrow street west between Belle Salle Akihabara and Sofmap, following it about 100 m past a Lawson to the parts-and-sundries shop Akibaoo; the Imai Building is immediately west of it, an eight-storey block faced in beige tile. A single lift from the ground-floor entrance serves the upper floors, while ZEST in the basement is reached by the stairs, not the lift. Suehirocho on the Ginza line is five minutes away and Hibiya-line Akihabara exit 3 is seven.

Address

東京都千代田区外神田3-2-14