Mikado game center, October 2026
The Mikado Game Center, December 2013
I found these photos from December 2013 on my hard drive, so I decided to post them here. This is the Mikado location next to Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo.
The Mikado game center in Ikebukuro
On August 21st I returned to Japan from my trip to Arizona. I stayed a night in Tokyo before proceeding home. I looked up how to find the Mikado game center in Ikebukuro. This was my first time visiting there.
I didn’t take a whole lot of photos, actually. By then I was getting very hungry, so I went to Ueno and went to an Irish pub called The World’s End where I had fish & chips with two pints of Guinness. It was great.
That night I also went to Taito’s HEY game center in Akihabara and took these photos there.
New buttons I got at the Mikado Game Center
Mikado had these pin badge buttons in their gachapon capsule toy dispensers, so I got three. One big one that says “PUSH START” (I’m not sure why it says “2006” because according to the Japanese Wikipedia, it started in 2009), and a set of buttons for the Mikado location in Ikebukuro (top) and the original in Takadanobaba (bottom). As I mentioned in the previous post, Mikado is a legendary spot for retrogaming.
Screenshots of arcade games at the legendary Mikado in Tokyo
I visited Mikado next to Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo. Here are some more screenshots of game screens. (I made an earlier post of closeup screenshots of arcade games in Akihabara’s Hey and Super Potato here.)
