Anyone here from Japan? Where to buy PC parts?

[Noyu]

So a colleague of mine is coming home from Japan in a few days.

He's asking me if I wanted something from there and I'd like to check if PC parts there are cheaper (hopefully not alot of builders/miners there).

 

What website can I check?

[LAwLz]

www.amazon.co.jp

[userzero]

Bring back an RX-7.

[MimigaKing]

9 hours ago, Noyu said:

So a colleague of mine is coming home from Japan in a few days.

He's asking me if I wanted something from there and I'd like to check if PC parts there are cheaper (hopefully not alot of builders/miners there).

 

What website can I check?

In akihabara next to the station is the biggest one. http://www.yodobashi.com/category/19531/252001/

 

if mostly electronic store for premade https://www.biccamera.com/bc/main/

[kennethnakasone]

19 hours ago, Noyu said:

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Last time I was in Japan, I didn't find PC parts to be cheaper than buying from etail stores in the US. That being said, your location is listed as the Phillipines, so if near-US prices are cheaper than what you can get locally, I'd say go for it.

 

Regarding what you said about miners: I'd imagine there are a lot in Japan, considering you can go to brick-and-mortar crypotcurrency exchanges in Tokyo. Not sure how much this affects pricing though; I haven't shopped for PC parts in Japan recently.

 

It might be interesting to look at pawn shops/ thrift shops. Some stores I can think of off the top of my head are Hard-Off, Mandaishoten, etc. For example, I was able to buy a used arcade stick for ~3000 yen. There was a decent amount of PC parts as well, but I didn't take a look at prices.

 

As MimigaKing has mentioned, Akihabara has many electronics stores around the station. I usually buy hobby electronics parts there though (as opposed to PC parts). 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Yodobashi Camera. Jk I just know they sell parts there. Don't know if it's home to the best deals. I pretty much spend several hours in there every time I go to Japan. 

[Mr.Meerkat]

Akihabara is deffo not a bad place to shop for parts. However, you will need quite a lot of time as the first time you go there, you'll struggle to find that many computer stores as most of them are in the smaller side streets and lets just say that its a bit like a maze there so you may actually end up spending most of your time looking for shops. 

 

10 hours ago, MimigaKing said:

In akihabara next to the station is the biggest one. http://www.yodobashi.com/category/19531/252001/

From my experience, they aren't that cheap for computer parts. Compared to the smaller PC shops , they were about 10-15% more expensive on most parts. However, they are deffo cheap for some things. The Sony A6500 my mother bought there was £150 cheaper than what it was in Britain (egh, 20% VAT) and about £75 cheaper than other stores we visited (to be fair, it was partially down to how we bought the 'international' version so tax was never considered on the pricing although at least £25 were actual savings). 

 

2 minutes ago, kennethnakasone said:

Last time I was in Japan, I didn't find PC parts to be cheaper than buying from etail stores in the US. That being said, your location is listed as the Phillipines, so if near-US prices are cheaper than what you can get locally, I'd say go for it.

Thing is if you come from a place with higher sales tax (i.e. such as me coming from Britain, 20% vs 8%), you can save quite a bit. I mean I spent a 7 hours in Akihabara shopping for computer parts (for my mITX build) and overall, I saved £150-200 which was totally worth it (I basically 'worked' for 7 hours and made £20-28/hr). The savings can be even more substantial if you're unlike me and actually enter the country without using a permanent residence as the way sales tax is collected in Japan, the cashier can drop it on the spot.

[Noyu]

Hi! thanks for your suggestions. From what I've read it looks like my friend will need to spend some time running around Akihabara if I wanted to get cheaper parts.

 

AmazonJP, Yodobashi, and Bic listings are more-or-less similarly priced to what I can get locally.

 

Given that, I've decided to just buy all of my parts locally. To be specific I was trying to look for a cheap RX580.

 

Anyways I'll try your suggestions when it's my turn to go to Japan. Thanks guys!

[dizmo]

They generally have nicer audio stuff. I'd get that.