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If you're like me, you are in Japan and you want to play StarCraft. Perhaps you're an overseas student, or here on business, or on a lengthy holiday trip, but in either case, you find yourself here and wanting to play. This blog is for you!
This blog is for me to introduce a few places that you can play, and hopefully others will chime in any obvious places I fail to mention.
The first place is e-sports SQUARE:
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They're located in Chiba Prefecture and are almost right outside the Ichikawa station on the Chuo-sen JR train line:
〒272-0034
千葉県市川市市川1丁目6-6
もりやすビル2F
Chiba-Prefecture, Ichikawa-shi, Ichikawa 1-6-6
Moriyasu Building 2nd Floor
3 hours time will cost you just under 1,000 yen. The staff is friendly and speaks a little English. If you're lucky enough to get the SC2 head, Yohei, you might get a few practice games in as he's currently a Master's Zerg on NA. Checking their website, you can tweet at them and join in on some events, too.
Another place is WIP, a net cafe with a lot of locations.
They have places in Chiba, Tokyo, Kanegawa, Aichi, Osaka, Hiroshima, Saitama, and Hyogo.
They're a more generic place but with a lot more locations.
One nice benefit is that with HotS and region-free play, from Japan you can play on the Korean server with good latency. I hope you guys have a great time in Japan and can satisfy your need for Starcraft here! 
 
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That place looks super clean, really nice.
Next time I head to Japan I may swing by if it's still around ;p
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I don't really care for WIP much, we used to have barcraft at one and I have just found those places kind of creepy with all the old men reading manga all the time.
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Cool blog, very insightful for the people in your position.
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United Kingdom3685 Posts
I like Starcraft. I also like Japan. 5/5
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I heard that people in Japan can't play on NA due to connection issues. Have they fixed that yet?
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You can play here on NA. I`ve been coming and playing at WIP for a while now. It`s cool if you get a 3-hr pack and spend a little under 800 yen. Also, the equipment differs by station but the one I`m at now is a Steel Series Sensei and a 6G V2.
The latency to NA or KR is pretty smoking good, too. Japan is geographically pretty well situated to access either server.
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so sc2 is not really big in japan? and people are usually < masters at these kind of PC cafes in Japan?
Thanks just wondering because I want to take a trip to AZN country (hvnt decided yet which one) and play some sc2. Korea is obvious choice but I don't want to rule out China/Japan/Singapore
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Do these places also let me play BW?
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United States10328 Posts
10 bucks for 3 hours? damn thats good.
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On April 13 2013 00:18 needcomputer wrote:
so sc2 is not really big in japan? and people are usually < masters at these kind of PC cafes in Japan?
Thanks just wondering because I want to take a trip to AZN country (hvnt decided yet which one) and play some sc2. Korea is obvious choice but I don't want to rule out China/Japan/Singapore
Sony + Nintendo > everything PC
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On April 13 2013 03:58 FlaShFTW wrote:
10 bucks for 3 hours? damn thats good.
My thoughts exactly. It also looks like a really nice setup. What is the table in the second picture for?
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On April 12 2013 22:23 29 fps wrote:
I heard that people in Japan can't play on NA due to connection issues. Have they fixed that yet?
All my friends and I have never had any connection issues to NA or any server. Apparently some ISPs are having issues, but my friends all have different ISPs and we have always been fine.
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On April 13 2013 00:59 KazeHydra wrote:
Do these places also let me play BW?
Awesome btw, may take advantage of this if i have time : D
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On April 13 2013 08:44 TheSwamp wrote:Show nested quote +On April 13 2013 03:58 FlaShFTW wrote:
10 bucks for 3 hours? damn thats good. My thoughts exactly. It also looks like a really nice setup. What is the table in the second picture for?
I used the table with the manager while we were planning some of the details for the upcoming CSL tournament. I think it's just a open table for laptops, eating, etc.
I haven't seen BW installed on the computers but I can't imagine it'd be trouble to get it on there.
I have yet to see another SC2 player there. The few JP players I've spoken with tend to be higher-ranked; like diamond, masters, some are platinum.
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What's the Dota2 scene like in Japan? I would imagine LoL is more popular because I've seen nazomen play it a couple times on his stream.
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United States2822 Posts
On April 18 2013 22:29 Nazza wrote:
What's the Dota2 scene like in Japan? I would imagine LoL is more popular because I've seen nazomen play it a couple times on his stream.
I've played LoL with nazomen once. It was pretty neat.
As far as I know, Dota 2 is pretty low-key in Japan. I know of a few people who tried it out shortly after it was released (the game is actually pretty well-localized in Japanese) but most of them went back to LoL eventually.
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