Niconico Chokaigi 2027 is officially confirmed for April 2027, but exact dates, venue and tickets haven't been announced as of October 14, 2026. Last cycle, the 2026 dates were announced on September 12, 2025 and tickets went on sale February 19, 2026. Here's what Chokaigi is, how its 2026 edition drew 138,228 visitors, and how to catch the official announcement.
The world's largest garage-kit and figure festival returns to Makuhari Messe for a two-day event — the first in 36 years — officially confirmed for February 13–14, 2027.
The 13th Autumn Reitaisai, the autumn edition of Japan's biggest Touhou Project doujinshi fair, was held on Sunday 4 October 2026 at Tokyo Big Sight East Hall and has ended. From this edition, entry was mainly by buying the catalog with an entry wristband (¥3,000 at the venue). A record of how entry and prices worked, plus the official date of the next edition (24th Reitaisai, 5 May 2027).
Comic Market 109 (C109) runs Tuesday–Thursday, December 29–31, 2026, at Tokyo Big Sight, with East Halls 4–6 closed for renovation. Entry needs a paid wristband; the organizers will publish C109 prices and sale dates in late October or early November (checked 2026-10-14).
Jump Festa 2027 is on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 December 2026, 9:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30), at Makuhari Messe halls 1–9 and 11. Entry is free but by advance application only: everyone from elementary school age up needs a Jump NAVI e-ticket. 34 stage series are announced (checked 2026-10-14).
Tokyo Game Show 2026 closed on 20 September 2026 with 257,642 visitors over four days: the 30th-anniversary show was booked for a record five days, but the final day (21 September) was cancelled outright for Typhoon No. 25. This page is the record of the show — figures, day-by-day attendance, and the TGS2027 dates.
Aug 15–16, 2026 at Tokyo Big Sight: the world's largest doujinshi fair, and the finale of Comiket's 50th-anniversary year. Paid wristband admission — how foreigners buy one, inside.
The world's largest garage-kit and figure festival, held for one day at Makuhari Messe on July 26, 2026. Theme: "Exploration."
The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2026 ran in Ariake, Tokyo from August 28-30, 2026 and ended with the finals at Tokyo Garden Theater on August 30. Winners are not covered here — this page is the record of the dates, the venue and the Japan-residents-only free spectator lottery.
Sanrio Puroland needs both a date-priced passport (gate Day Passport ¥3,900–¥6,900 for adults, as of 2026-09-25) and a visit reservation. The official e-Passport covers both for ¥100 less, and the park is about 30 minutes from Shinjuku by Keio Line.
Kirby Café Tokyo (Solamachi 4F, 10:00–22:00) is still open, but since August 2026 you need a phone-verified account on the official site to book. Walk-ins only if seats are free; the goods shop next door needs no booking.
Pokémon Center TOKYO DX is on 5F of the Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C. East Building, open 10:30–21:00 daily, direct from Nihombashi Station exit B2, tax-free in-store, with the reservation-only Pokémon Cafe TOKYO on the same floor.
Odaiba's life-size Unicorn Gundam is no longer on display: its run at DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, which began in September 2017, ended on 31 August 2026, and no successor statue has been announced for the site.
Tokyo's official, reservation-only Pokémon-themed café, on the same East Building 5F as Pokémon Center Tokyo DX in Nihombashi. Since its June 2026 reopening after renovation, seats are released in bulk waves at 18:00 JST for blocks of future dates rather than a simple daily window, so foreign visitors need to time their booking to the current wave.
A B1 arcade of official character shops in Tokyo Station's First Avenue — Jump Shop, Pokémon, Ghibli's Donguri, Sanrio and TV-network stores, all in one corridor.
Studio Ghibli's whimsical museum in Mitaka, designed by Hayao Miyazaki. Entry is advance-ticket-only with a fixed date and time slot — and tickets sell out fast.
The official Gunpla flagship on DiverCity Tokyo Plaza 7F, Odaiba — Gundam model kits of every grade, store exclusives and build zones. The life-size Unicorn Gundam statue outside ended its display on 31 August 2026; the store stays open.
New One Piece Card Game boosters at Tokyo's three official shops (Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Shibuya) are lottery-only, with an ID check and one checkout per person per day. Addresses, hours, the 1-box limit, card shops for singles in Akihabara and Ikebukuro, and the Japanese-card region rule, checked 2026-09-23.
Gachapon Kaikan in Akihabara is the highest-density stop with around 500 machines. Bring ¥100 coins — most machines take coins only, most don't give change, and you cannot choose which figure you get.
Super Potato, Surugaya, Trader and Mandarake cover the whole retro market between them. Before you spend anything, settle the compatibility question: a Japanese Famicom cartridge will not fit an American NES, and a Super Famicom cartridge will not fit a US SNES.
Outside Comiket, doujinshi is a year-round shop purchase: Melonbooks and Toranoana for new, Mandarake and Lashinbang for out-of-print. The two things that catch foreign buyers out are the R18 age check and the fact that most doujin shops won't ship abroad.
Decide new or secondhand first — it changes which street you walk down. New (AmiAmi, Kotobukiya, Tamashii Nations) clusters around Akihabara's Radio Kaikan; secondhand (Mandarake, Surugaya, Lashinbang) is where rare and out-of-print kits actually live.
hololive has two Tokyo shops: Harajuku OMOKADO (11:00–20:00) and Tokyo Station, which closes 9–12 Nov 2026 and reopens in a new unit on Tokyo Station Ichibangai B1F on 13 Nov (checked 2026-10-13). Nijisanji has no store of its own.
Three days is enough to properly cover Tokyo's otaku scene without rushing: Day 1 is Akihabara top to bottom, Day 2 pairs Nakano Broadway with Ikebukuro's Otome Road, and Day 3 is yours to pick — a franchise/character day (Gundam, Pokémon, Ghibli, Tokyo Character Street), a pilgrimage day trip, or a TCG/arcade day. Here's the stop-by-stop plan, with realistic travel times and how to sequence it so you're not backtracking across the city.
In October 2026 you can visit 20 anime and game collab cafés in Tokyo (plus 8 in Osaka) — Chainsaw Man, Ace Attorney, Fallout, Katamari Damacy, NIJISANJI and more. Animate Cafe sit-down collabs, Mob Psycho 100, Katamari and Yu-Gi-Oh! need advance booking; here are dates, venues and how visitors book, checked against each official page.
As of 3 October 2026, the one anime film we can confirm with English-subtitled screenings in Japan is SEKIRO: NO DEFEAT at Fushimi Million-za (Aichi), whose film page says every showing has English subtitles. We found no English-subtitled anime showtime in Tokyo that day. Here is the cinema-by-cinema status, the other anime now showing, and how to check a showtime yourself.
The Gundam Base Tokyo (DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, 7F, Odaiba) is not a reservation-only shop — but on weekends, national holidays and new-kit release days, Bandai can cap entry with a pre-entry lottery or a numbered ticket, and announces the affected dates in advance.
Odaiba's life-size Unicorn Gundam ended its display on 31 August 2026, but The Gundam Base Tokyo on DiverCity 7F is still open. Where to buy gunpla in Tokyo, and the tax-free rules for kits.
Where to go for Pokémon in Tokyo: the four Pokémon Centers — Tokyo DX in Nihonbashi (same floor as the reservation-only Pokémon Café), Mega Tokyo in Ikebukuro (reopened 24 August 2026), Shibuya PARCO 6F and Skytree Town in Solamachi — all open daily per the official store pages.
The red-railed stairs where Taki and Mitsuha reunite in the final scene of Your Name. A real, working shrine in a quiet Yotsuya residential neighbourhood — visit respectfully.
