Orochinagi: The King of Fighters

A-cho is in a shopping mall, off the main shopping avenue.

Larger Kyoto Map

Map to a-cho arcade in Kyoto

If you can’t figure this out, get yourself onto Shijo Dori street.  Walk onto Termachi street and walk through the shopping wall until you see a-cho on your left.

Here’s the google map link so you can see at Street level, but it won’t let you enter the arcade.

If you miss it, just walk up and down Gokumachi dori street and Teramachi street, looking at both sides.  When you find a-cho, you’ll know it.

Sad tourist next to a-cho

a-cho is the famous arcade in Kyoto that can be found in the main shopping mall, easily identified by the large teddy bear that points upstairs.  What’s cool for the KOF machines is they have a layout switch so you can change between 2×2 or 2+2 (see pic below).  Note XIII deals with the problem of KOF using SF layouts using internal software switching.  The 1×4 button layout is extremely rare as arcade owners are no longer keen on buying dedicated cabinets.

Button layout switch

A-cho is home to some of the most hardcore players you’ll ever meet.  These are the players featured in those videos from their site and on youtube etc.  Highly recommended.

50 yen a go, iirc, expect to lose it quick!

Inside a-cho

Down one of the streets parallel to Teramachi dori, is another arcade.  Heaven knows what it’s called, but I remember it being one of those cool community arcades, where they have mooks lying around for those learning the games.

There was this graffiti on the wall just before it.