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On the western side of the Tottenham Court Road, between Hanway Street and Stephen Street at 9-16 Tottenham Court Road, is the familiar orange and white branded Easy Internet Café with about 470 internet PCs.

They are open very late and have a prepaid voucher machine system to buy internet connection time. You are less likely to have your email or blog publishing or internet banking authentication credentials snarfed by password sniffers etc. from viruses or spyware, as each machine has its software rebuilt from central server images after each customer's session.

Next door, is another useful Sainsbury's supermarket for the purchase of food and drink (including alcohol at farless than the pub and bar prices)

N.B. it is illegal to openly drink alcohol in the street in this central area of London, either in the City of Westminster or the Borough of Camden - you can have your drinks confiscated by the Police or the Police Community Support Officers (who go around in pairs) and face a fine etc.

GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:31:03 ( 51.517405 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:07:54 ( -0.131581 )

There are other EasyInterentCafes branches at:

• Trafalgar Square (between Charing Cross station and the southern end of the Charing Cross Road
  456 - 459 Strand
  London WC2R 0RG
  (Trafalgar Square end)
  Number of PCs: 393
  Opening hours:
  Open 08:00-23:00, 7 days a week.
• Oxford Street
  358 Oxford Street
  London W1N 9AG
  (opposite Bond Street Underground station).
  Number of PCs: 268
  Opening hours:
  Sun-Wed: 08:00-22:00
  Thurs-Sat: 08:00-00:00
• Camden
  Post Office
  112-114 Camden High Street
  London NW1 0RR
  Number of PCs: 18
  Opening hours:
  Monday 08:30-18:00
  Tuesday 09:00-18:00
  Wednesday 09:00-18:00
  Thursday 09:00-18:00
  Friday 09:00-18:00
  Saturday 09:00-17:30
• Kensington High Street
  160-166 Kensington High Street,
  London W8 7RG
  Number of PCs: 394
  Opening hours:
  08:00-22:00, 7 days a week.
• King's Road - Chelsea
  Unit G1
  Kings Walk
  120 Kings Road
  London SW3 4TR
  Number of PCs: 98
  Opening hours:
  Mon-Thurs: 09.30-19.00
  Fri-Sat: 09.30-20.30
  Sun: 12.00-18.00
• Whiteley's Shopping Centre - Queensway, Bayswater
  Kiosk 4
  Second floor
  Whiletelys Shopping Centre
  London W2 4YN
  Number of PCs: 18
  Opening hours:
  Mon-Sun: 08:30-00:00

Between Goodge Street and the entrance to Goodge Street Tube Station are a couple of places of interest to CyberPunk tourists.

Firstly avoid the Scientology Cult who will offer to "test your personality" with their dubious electronic devices. If you accept their offer you have failed the gullibility test.

Next door at 70 Tottenham Court Road is a branch of Computer Exchange - very CyberPunk, with industrial metal floorplates and second hand computers, computer parts, mobile phones, iPods and console games etc.

You will need to provide proof of identity etc. if you try to sell them anything, but there are usually a few bargains to be found.

Micro Anvika have several shops on the Tottenham Court Road, but the one on the corner with 13 Chenies Street, is an Apple Macintosh specialist shop,

Also visible along Chenies Street is a World War 2 vintage structure, which is a tunnel extension from Goodge Street Tube Station opposite, which was used as bomb proof barracks in the run up to the D-Day invasion from Britain, and is currently used as a secure offsite data storage facility for documents, microfilms and computer backup data.

At the northern end of the Tottenham Court Road, on the University College eastern side of the road is the large retail chain PC World superstore at 145 Tottenham Court Road.

The Tottenham Court Road is of interest to CyberPunk tourists for the selection of electronic gadgets , mobile phones,computers, music players, spy equipment, GPS navigation equipment etc. on sale

There are various national retail chain stores and more specialised, often exiled Iranian owned, electronics shops, who tend to compete ruthlessly on the price and availability of the latest "hot" gadgets.

On the British Museum, eastern side of the Tottenham Court Road are a couple of shops selling cheap electronic bugging devices and hidden surveillance cameras, as well as GPS equipment and civilian grade night vision goggles (which are enough to get you arrested as a terrorist if you try to export them to say, Pakistan).

GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:31:04 ( 51.517790 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:07:51 ( -0.130917 )

On the western side of the Tottenham Court Road, between Hanway Street and Stephen Street at 9-16 Tottenham Court Road,
is the familiar orange and white branded Easy Internet Café with about 470 internet PCs.

They are open very late and have a prepaid voucher machine system to buy internet connection time. You are less likely to have your email or blog publishing or internet banking authentication credentials snarfed by password sniffers etc. from viruses or spyware, as each machine has its software rebuilt from central server images after each customer's session.

Next door, is another useful Sainsbury's supermarket for the purchase of food and drink (including alcohol at farless than the pub and bar prices)

N.B. it is illegal to openly drink alcohol in the street in this central area of London, either in the City of Westminster or the Borough of Camden - you can have your drinks confiscated by the Police or the Police Community Support Officers (who go around in pairs) and face a fine etc.

GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:31:03 ( 51.517405 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:07:54 ( -0.131581 )