Akihabara (秋葉原), also known as Akihabara Electric Town (秋葉原電気街 Akihabara Denki Gai), is a popular neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan. His name is also shortened to Akiba. Although there is an area nearby officially called Akihabara and part of Taito-ku, the area called Akihabara by most people (including the Japan Railways train station of the same name) is actually Soto-Kanda, a part of the Kanda, in the Chiyoda-ku district.