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Emery Premeaux edited this page May 24, 2024 · 11 revisions

Our Maker Map

We have made a Maker's Guide Map for Japan. It has points of interest including:

  • Electronics Shops
  • Crafting
  • Arcade, Retro Gaming & computers
  • Modern Computing
  • Tourism
  • Cultural Craft tourism
  • Maker Spaces and Co-working
  • Game Bars
  • Other

Monotaro by topic

Monotaro is a great online hardware store. It could be compared to McMaster-Carr, but less easy to navigate (McMaster is almost entirely picture card driven. It is teh awesomes).

Here are some select items, relevant to Tokyo HackerSpace and members, broken into categories which this author thinks are useful. Some of these are downright hints to our members to buy and donate them to the space. ;)

Milling Machine related

Cutting Machine (table jig saw)

Welder

Machine making

Metals and Extrusion

Building a machine? Need steel for a welding course, table or project? Need extruded aluminum? Need gears, chains and pullys?

Steel Square pipe, round pipe and bar

Teppan-Ichiba sells direct over the internet

Extruded Aluminum

http://shop.smartdiys.com/ sells lots of build materials in Japan, including Openbuilds V-slot extruded aluminum:

The following shops sell direct, and take internet orders

Monotaro also has a wide selection of extrusion, as well as all the other parts:

Mechanical Parts

POWERS mechanical parts

These parts can be found in a few shops in Akihabara (Sengoku), as well as online.

RS carries a good chunk of the POWERS small mechanical inventory:

Sheetmetal Manufacturing

Kaneyoshidesu can process all your sheet-metal needs, including:

  • Laser cutting
  • Bending
  • Welding and surface treatments

They can process a variety of materials as well (up to 30mm):

  • Iron
  • Stainless steel
  • Aluminum
  • Copper
  • Brass
  • Titanium
  • Acrylic
  • Wood
  • Paper / cardstock

Acrylic & other plastics

Sheets for laser cutting

Casting

Various Plastics

Cutpla.com provides a wide variety of plastics services and materials:

  • Plate and flat bar
  • Round Bar
  • Processing (manufacturing of parts)

They offer a wide variety of plastics

  • Nylon
  • Duracon
  • Bakelite
  • Polycarbonate
  • UHMD Polyethylene
  • PPEK
  • PPS
  • Teflon (PTFE)
  • PVC
  • Acrylic
  • PET
  • Polyethylene
  • Polypropylene
  • ABS

Woodworking

Leatherworking

Jewelry making

Seaforce sells a variety of jewelry and crafting tools including ultrasonic cleaners and laser cutters.

Sewing

  • Nippori Fabric Town has a whole street of fabric and crafts shops. See our Maker's Guide Map under the crafting section.

Tools

Electronics

THS also has some electronics inventory that you can have in exchange for a donation. See this wiki page

Shops in Akihabara and online

Online only

Robotics

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