Arcades in Florence

Florence, Tuscany has 2 arcades on the map. That's 2 arcades mapped around Florence. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Bring a friend — everything's better head-to-head, and most of the best cabinets are built for two.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Florence (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include JoyVillage and Palace Game. If an arcade's missing from Florence's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Florence arcade lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Florence

None of the 2 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Arcades tend toward long evening hours; call ahead if you're making a special trip.

The Florence arcade run

Making a day of it in Florence? Work this order: JoyVillage and Palace Game. That's the arcade run in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Arcade tips for Florence

The regulars' rules for Florence's arcades:

• Test the controls before committing at JoyVillage. Joysticks drift, buttons stick, guns misalign. One test credit saves a wasted game.
• Check the retro corner at Palace Game. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.
• Bar-arcades: pace yourself. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.
• Learn the ticket-to-prize math. Glance at the prize counter before playing ticket games. If the math horrifies you, play the video games instead.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Florence — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new arcade in Florence can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 2 that's closed, or a great arcade we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list machine lineups — they change too often. What we list is the where: real venues, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 2 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.