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| exodus 3503th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Places to go in San Francisco/Sonoma ar" , posted Tue 29 Aug 07:32
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I'm going to be out there in October for my sisters wedding. So any cool import game/music/anime shops to go to in that area?
san francisco and sonoma shouldn't really have a slash between them, given they're about an hour apart in ideal conditions (which no longer exist).
that said, no, there aren't any good import game stores, and all of our anime shops are utterly standard. there's cool stuff to do, but unfortunately very little of that has to do with imports/anime.
There are nice vinyl toy shops in the upper haight area though, Kid Robot and Giant Robot both have interesting things. If you go to china town you can get lots of interesting anime bootlegs and stuff, and some overpriced official things as well (which I think are just there to make you buy bootlegs).
Good music shops, such as Amoeba in the haight area, Rasputin in downtown (hard to get there though!) and the standard EBs and whatnot.
anything else you're interested in?
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| Oroch 888th Post
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| "Re(2):Places to go in San Francisco/Sonoma ar" , posted Tue 29 Aug 07:36
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I'm going to be out there in October for my sisters wedding. So any cool import game/music/anime shops to go to in that area?
san francisco and sonoma shouldn't really have a slash between them, given they're about an hour apart in ideal conditions (which no longer exist).
that said, no, there aren't any good import game stores, and all of our anime shops are utterly standard. there's cool stuff to do, but unfortunately very little of that has to do with imports/anime.
There are nice vinyl toy shops in the upper haight area though, Kid Robot and Giant Robot both have interesting things. If you go to china town you can get lots of interesting anime bootlegs and stuff, and some overpriced official things as well (which I think are just there to make you buy bootlegs).
Good music shops, such as Amoeba in the haight area, Rasputin in downtown (hard to get there though!) and the standard EBs and whatnot.
anything else you're interested in?
gay bars :(
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| Shooo-rook
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| "Re(3):Places to go in San Francisco/Sonoma ar" , posted Tue 29 Aug 08:44
quote:
I'm going to be out there in October for my sisters wedding. So any cool import game/music/anime shops to go to in that area?
san francisco and sonoma shouldn't really have a slash between them, given they're about an hour apart in ideal conditions (which no longer exist).
that said, no, there aren't any good import game stores, and all of our anime shops are utterly standard. there's cool stuff to do, but unfortunately very little of that has to do with imports/anime.
There are nice vinyl toy shops in the upper haight area though, Kid Robot and Giant Robot both have interesting things. If you go to china town you can get lots of interesting anime bootlegs and stuff, and some overpriced official things as well (which I think are just there to make you buy bootlegs).
Good music shops, such as Amoeba in the haight area, Rasputin in downtown (hard to get there though!) and the standard EBs and whatnot.
anything else you're interested in?
gay bars :(
CASTRO ST!
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| shin ramberk 293th Post
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| "Welcome" , posted Tue 29 Aug 13:22:
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I'm going to be out there in October for my sisters wedding. So any cool import game/music/anime shops to go to in that area?
san francisco and sonoma shouldn't really have a slash between them, given they're about an hour apart in ideal conditions (which no longer exist).
that said, no, there aren't any good import game stores, and all of our anime shops are utterly standard. there's cool stuff to do, but unfortunately very little of that has to do with imports/anime.
There are nice vinyl toy shops in the upper haight area though, Kid Robot and Giant Robot both have interesting things. If you go to china town you can get lots of interesting anime bootlegs and stuff, and some overpriced official things as well (which I think are just there to make you buy bootlegs).
Good music shops, such as Amoeba in the haight area, Rasputin in downtown (hard to get there though!) and the standard EBs and whatnot.
anything else you're interested in?
gay bars :(
CASTRO ST!
The Castro FTW!
But why the frowny face??!??!
SF has gay bars/clubs for nearly every sub-culture. Leather bars, asian bars, sports bars, latino bars, white trash bars, daddy bars, twink bars, etc etc but no real bar/club for anime/vg/manga/comic book fan.
The Castro did finally get a real, honest to goodness comic book shop a few months ago. That's another good/cool/awesome thing about SF-- people in SF love comics. There's like 5 or 10 shops in this damn city.
And San Francisco State University has the newest edition of GG XX. Along with 3S, MvC2, CvS2, Tekken 5 DR, SC II, PF, GG XX Reload Slash whatever its called. But its the newest version.
PS. Yeah, the Tenderloin can be a "fun" place if you've never been to a big city. Don't go looking for manga or arcades there though.
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| Bata kun 2929th Post
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| "Bata-kun's SF/Sonoma study guide" , posted Wed 6 Sep 02:36
The only good import games store is in San Jose and that's two hours away from Sonoma, assuming that we're dealing with ideal conditions here. Even then, that store is not that much to update. Solid selections, but overall, the store's not up to date. There's also one in Burlingame, but I haven't been there yet.
Oh. Books: yeah, go to Kinokuniya and there are other book stores as well. Food: if you're looking for Japanese, you obviously need to be at Japantown on the Geary area. Sapporo's the only place that has okonomiyaki as far as I know, but it's pretty pricey; then again, Japanese restaraunts are pretty pricey in general. Otherwise, the natives already told you where to go. There is a Jollybee's in Daly City if you want Filipino food, but you're better off going to a traditional place. Music: again, the natives already told you where to go, as you only buy the localized version of albums if you're in Kinokuniya unless you can blow out a lot of money. Shame that you're not going to Santa Clara because there are a few Korean music stores and Korean places overall.
As for arcades, you're better off going to Sunnyvale. Even then, I don't go to arcade places in this area anymore because they don't bring out any new games and by new, I mean games that came out at most six months ago in Japan. I remember SJSU getting "Espgaluda", but the game was like three when it got here, as I figured it would have been here the year before last year. You heard about the ones at SFSU. Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me, but I could of sworn UCSF was trying to get "Mushihime-sama".
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