From the Meowlingual, which translates a cat's purrs into Japanese, to a portable dispenser of oxygen-rich air, Japan's Akihabara has all the high-tech items.

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Akihabara, or Electric Town, is a little piece of Tokyo that's a high-tech shopper's paradise, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

This is the place where one can find any gadget from the latest and most advanced to the old and antique, says the report. One can't miss them in the narrow neighborhood where the stores are crammed into narrow streets, stacked one floor above the other.

"I'm fascinated by all of it," said Arne Fleisher with a U.S. networking and security company while examining cell phones in Akihabara. "I've been thinking about how to move here."

Megan Trevethan, visiting from Ohio with fellow students, was thrilled to find a store selling the Nintendo DS Lite, a portable gaming device that isn't yet available in the United States, the report said. "We got there just as they were cutting the boxes open," she said.

In the old and antique sections, one can find such things as vintage games and consoles dating back to the 1980s.