crasse - 2008-10-07 08:28
This Summer I was on a trip in Japan, especially in Tokyo, and of course I couldn't miss to go to Design Underground !
It's a bit hard to find, far from the center, in fact I was in a Hostel in the Ikebukuro District (close to Shibuya), and It takes 40/50 minutes by the subway to reach the Design Underground's district (and after the train, I got to take a Cab °-° ) but anyway, I finally managed to find it !!
the owner is a very nice person and work with younger guy on collecting and repairing those marvelous stuffs (in fact in japan, people use to trash Electronic system , like Tv set, Hi-fi... very easily, when the got just scratches to buy new ones, this is the country of disposable electronic system, and so since the 70's, so you just have to know where to find them, and this a goldmine ! )
anyway here is some pictures ^^
here is the entrance
there is so much boomboxes, lot's of them are not on pictures, like M90's, bigben's an other rarities like GF-1000 (you should check there sites to see them, cause my pictures aren't so good
)
there is also some old weird Tv set ^^
and of course I couldn't leave this place empty-handed so I find out a wonderful National RX-F333 (triple (!!) cassette deck mini)
so Here it is, on the left side is the owner, me on the center (what a smile XD ) and his colleague on the right side.
Pics didnt came out try tiny pics it works great just copy where it says forums and boards and paste it here.
Oh man, that's some AWEsome stuff there Crasse! I'd have taken half of that stuff home.. incredible. How's that GF-8989 with the lovely blue accents? Wow!
Well done, and thanks for sharing your experience. Really greatly appreciated and you got a great souveneir with that triple deck gem!
Rock On.
Great photos!
I like your triple too!
Id be so afraid of getting lost!!!
Im glad you made the effort, thanks!
Very cool - I'm jealous - always wanted to visit Tokyo!
Holy moly! I'll take that one, that one there, one of those, and that big one right there, ....
Very cool....
Boombox Heaven = Japan & Hong Kong
sweet great picks as ue states boombox heaven apart from my place
thanks for taking the time to share
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looks great! I am going to HK at x-mas! Can't wait!
ghettoboom777 - 2008-10-07 10:52
You guys took the words right out of my mouth-Boombox Heaven!
I saw that GF-8989 also-way cool!! Blue-maybe it's a GF-8989III or something!
I want the VZ and everything else.
Although now I am starting to be surrounded by boomboxes!
Thanks for the cool photos!
Ghettoboom777.
Without question, Tokyo IS "the place to be" and I can't wait for the opportunity to go back!
Glad to see you enjoyed your trip and thanks for posting!
SUPER Awesome!!!!! Great pics,thanks for sharing. I love that National triple you got.
quote:
Originally posted by crasse:
This Summer I was on a trip in Japan, especially in Tokyo, and of course I couldn't miss to go to Design Underground !
It's a bit hard to find, far from the center, in fact I was in a Hostel in the Ikebukuro District (close to Shibuya), and It takes 40/50 minutes by the subway to reach the Design Underground's district (and after the train, I got to take a Cab °-° ) but anyway, I finally managed to find it !!
the owner is a very nice person and work with younger guy on collecting and repairing those marvelous stuffs (in fact in japan, people use to trash Electronic system , like Tv set, Hi-fi... very easily, when the got just scratches to buy new ones, this is the country of disposable electronic system, and so since the 70's, so you just have to know where to find them, and this a goldmine ! )
anyway here is some pictures ^^
here is the entrance
there is so much boomboxes, lot's of them are not on pictures, like M90's, bigben's an other rarities like GF-1000 (you should check there sites to see them, cause my pictures aren't so good
)
there is also some old weird Tv set ^^
and of course I couldn't leave this place empty-handed so I find out a wonderful National RX-F333 (triple (!!) cassette deck mini)
so Here it is, on the left side is the owner, me on the center (what a smile XD ) and his colleague on the right side.
here let me try this
Design Underground 01 bbx1mh5
Design Underground 02 bbx2bl3
Design Underground 03 bbx4fm6
Design Underground 04 bbx3xn0
Design Underground 05 bbxtvgz6
Design Underground 06 crasse center bbxmoigl4
masterblaster84 - 2008-10-07 18:24
Awesome crasse, that must have been incredible to be there. How did you manage to leave with just 1 super cool mini?
thanks for all your comments, and thanks DecentMan4You for displaying my photo
MasterBlaster84 -> Last Year I've been to china and brought back 3 Boomboxes (a 777, a GF-888/525 and a Sanyo M988X ) and I get around 150 Euros of weight excedent in the plane when I came back +_+. So this time, the rules was to look for little ones XD
But if I've only listened to me eyes (and not to my wallet) I would have brought back half of the shop
Thanks for taking the time to take photos, awesome. I would be nervous also,not knowing the language and gettin lost. Do you feel the prices were reasonable?
What were the going prices for a monster like a M90 in that shop? How bad is the Ebay inflation rates these days?
jaredscottfla - 2008-10-07 19:52
in fact Japan isn't very cheap, for my triple deck for example, it was 15000 yen (around 90 euros), and a m90 must be between 400/600 euros, it's not so expensive (when I see m90 sold for more than 1000 dollars °_° ) but it's not china lol (where I get a 777 in a minty state for 40 euros)
Hey, crasse did you see any M-90 when you were there. Because I'll ask jameswp67 to do me a solid and pick one up for me when he goes to Japan.
Duh just noticed it's HK he's going drat!
Wow, never seen so many beautiful electronics at one place.
Notice not only the blasters!
There are so many beautiful+rara clockradios, monos,tv´s,...
I hope you enjoy your "threedecker"
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Originally posted by ford93:
Hey, crasse did you see any M-90 when you were there. Because I'll ask jameswp67 to do me a solid and pick one up for me when he goes to Japan.
yep there was at least one on a table after the entrance, and maybe one more hidden behind many bbx, but to be sure you can also check his site, with the daily new ones ^^
Amazing, just amazing!!
The big red 3-piece in this picture took my eye, tucked behind what looks like a Sony on the floor! MONSTER!
I might have ended up phoning home and asking everyone I knew if I could borrow some money!
I would have probably took the opportunity to scoop up "my grails".
Thanks for these pics!
kid.sensation - 2008-10-08 11:04
Thanks for sharing these awesome pics and the great story!!
Whats interesting for me is what the price-range might be?
Could you give any impression of the prices in € or $$?
Thanks for sharing these cool pics. I could spend all day in there just admiring these babies
I couldn't leave there w/o a radio in my hands.
A triple-cassette, interesting......I guess it's for playing a tape while you're dubbing 2 others?
I wonder if there's actually 3 separate motors, or if the same motor is asked to drive all 3 decks
Nice pics thanks for sharing with us
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Originally posted by Kid Sensation!:
Thanks for sharing these awesome pics and the great story!!
Whats interesting for me is what the price-range might be?
Could you give any impression of the prices in € or $$?
it's nearly the same as European Ebay (FR/UK/Germany, cheaper than US one)
My 3 decks is 90 euros and a Bigben is around 60000 Yen (so 360 Euros)
It's the only price I know, There is other one on his site if you wanna check ^^
It's not cheap but it's ok I think.
