Vintage stores in Japan

When you are around the Akihabura area, Super Potato, Trader (2nd Floor contains retro games and even some MSX stuff), Retrogame are pretty decent.

Hard Off / Book Off / Off Hobby stores are spread around various cities in Japan, even outside of the general Tokyo area. These tend to have a lot of newer generation games going back to Playstation 1 discs in the main isle areas area where they keep their games displayed, but at some of the bigger stores (Hard Off and Off Hobby) they keep really old games in pull out bins located in the back of the store and are very cheap.

If you are visiting the Tokyo / Chiba area, my favorite store to visit has several locations, at least 3 or 4 that I've seen called "Chiba Kantei Dan" or Chiba Appraisal Group. They have everything under the sun at these stores, and a vast collection of Retro games.

Hope this helps and have fun in Japan! : ) I love to visit there.

-Thomas

The two parallel streets to the west of Chuo Dori and north of Super Potato are full of "junk" stores with a lot of hardware. If you're patient you can find some nice machines. I remember seeing a PC-6001, a TurboR FS-A1ST and lots of PC-9801. Sadly there're a lot of stores that aren't at street level; so it's really hard to imagine that in a third floor is a nice hardware shop