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Japanese media tourism as world-building: Akihabara’s Electric Town and Ikebukuro’s Maiden Road (2016) by Craig Norris

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>This article examines how female yaoi fans construct an ideal fan-tourist identity through framing their online travel advice to Tokyo in terms of the distinctive properties of yaoi’s story world and conventions.
>Several established stores, such as Animate, and various new stores congregated around East Ikebukuro, and the area has become known as Otome Road in recognition of its density of female-oriented popular culture stores and services.
>Maiden Road can be difficult to locate, particularly for first time visitors, and as a result fans assist each other through numerous, detailed online guides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otome_Road
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