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Tokyo's tiniest electronics shop gets second life in fan's amazing recreation

Bob Knetzger
Apr 15, 2025
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A prior Boing Boing post lamented the closing of an institution in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district: Koichi Shimayama's tiny but packed electronics store. The beloved one-man mini-market offered an astounding array of teeny transistors, resistors, radio tubes, kits, parts and tools, in hundreds of open bins, all jammed …

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