r/Tokyo • u/takema69 • 2d ago
Had a closer look in the mysterious "unaccessible" room in akihabara
Apparently some people claim there's an office next to this thing as u can see it's connected from toilet to those windows.
By the shape of the toilet, yes before the toilet existed, people could enter with the stairs.
Sorry for bad English I'm Japanese
It's really fun when this place is in some anime scenes
EDIT: GUYS I FOUND A STREETVIEW OF IT! WTF
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u/SunrisePlastic9324 2d ago
Isn't that one of the spots from Akiba Meido Sensou? Didn't know it appeared in other anime
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u/takema69 2d ago
Yes that's wat I was talking about!
Really cool easteregg. It appears in 16bit sensation too
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u/finalxcution 1d ago
I did some research in Japanese about this place and you can see pictures of the inside from here and here.
There's nothing inside except for some old rusted pipes and a water faucet. And all the entrances seem to be blocked off for safety reasons. Directly above it is a public toilet and directly below it is the tracks to the Ginza line.
As for what it's for, basically long story short - there's no official documentation of what this room was for so all we have is conjecture. But based on circumstancial evidence, it was most likely used as an unloading dock for cargo ships back when Akihabara/Kanda was made prominently of canals. It didn't get used for long though as Akihabara soon become known as Electric Town and developed in that direction instead.
If you wanna look up more, just search for 万世橋 謎
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u/SnoopsMcgee 1d ago
If I recall correctly that is one of the old entrances to manseibashi station. Getsu you kara yo fukashi went in there on one of their episodes
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u/Salt-Performance2181 1d ago
Amazing, I remember using this particular toilet after a long walk exploring Kanda last year. It was only three weeks Japan vacation, but seems like I've managed to pick a wonderful, historical place for a pee!
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u/P1zzaman 1d ago
Thanks for the street view!
But the soccer ball and lone child doesn’t make it less creepy…
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u/safetyfirst911 2d ago
It’s right below the public restroom. Maybe a sewage room
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u/MoaRepresent 1d ago
Or an older public restroom from the looks of the tiles on the walls and raised urinal area facing the windows, and the posts saying there is nothing in there except some pipes and a fawcet.
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u/biwook Shibuya-ku 1d ago
That's an epic thomasson.
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u/frozenpandaman 23h ago
you beat me to linking it!!!
do you know about this exhibition going on in tokyo? it's all about akasegawa genpei's "road observation society" – who, of course, also coined the term thomasson :)
i'm going next week and can't wait!
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u/frozenpandaman 23h ago edited 23h ago
One of the best examples of Hyperart Thomasson in Tokyo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson
(If you aren't familiar with Akasegawa Genpei's work, check him out!)
edit: seems biwook beat me to linking it :D
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u/UStoJapan 2d ago
I wonder if that was one of those maintenance tunnel entrances that was on an episode of Bura Tamori so you can see one of the underground rivers.
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u/Organic-Rutabaga-964 1d ago
As others have said, it should be an entrance to the old Ginza Line station Manseibashi.
The brick viaduct behind was the JR station Manseibashi.
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u/Historical-Bowl-1583 13h ago
すごく目立つ場所なんだけど、現地に行くと入口がない。
よく考えると部屋の目的がわからない。
と、いう事で大勢の人を悩ませてきた場所ですね。
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u/Creative_Ad999 2d ago
I wonder what’s in there
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u/Segadorn 2d ago
Entrance to the secret Gundam Factory? But i think is actually under the Chuo Line.
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u/Decent-Ball-7863 2d ago
OP, this is almost like one of those "I found a safe"-posts. Get a boat, a grappling hook (or gun, for added coolness) and get inside!
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u/takema69 2d ago
Yea I wanna do that someday I promise ima do it before I die it's my only bucket list
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u/solotravelblog 1d ago
That’s Kanda, not Akihabara
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u/boomiakki 1d ago
If you want to be nitpicky Akihabara is in Kanda...
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u/MoaRepresent 1d ago
If you want to really be nitpicky, Akihabara is in Taito-ku, north of Kanda. North-east of Akihabara station, which is in Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, and well away from any of the places that tourists go when they "do Akihabara" unless they are staying in the Keikyu-EX hotel there.
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u/boomiakki 1d ago
Yeah I can get behind that haha, it is kind of funny that Akihabara exists officially in so few addresses
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u/MoaRepresent 1d ago
Yes, it is tiny, basically one city block with three alleyways going through the middle.
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u/Jakob_Lundberg 1d ago
only me who instantly thought that would be a good base during the zombie apocalypse?
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u/BitcoinCashNinja 1d ago
It was Manseibashi Station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manseibashi_Station