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Hareruya Nipponbashi Store

Osaka flagship of Japan's largest Magic: The Gathering chain — a 1-minute walk from Nankai Namba Station, with a free 50-seat play space and daily events.

Hareruya's Osaka MTG store, 1 min from Nankai Namba Station, open every day with a free 50-seat play space; English-language shop page.

Nankai Namba Station in Osaka, the closest station to Hareruya Nipponbashi and Hareruya2 Namba.
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Opening hours

Monday
14:00–23:00
Tuesday
14:00–23:00
Wednesday
14:00–23:00
Thursday
14:00–23:00
Friday
14:00–23:00
Saturday
10:00–23:00
Sunday
10:00–23:00

Known for

  • Magic: The Gathering
  • singles
  • tournaments / events
  • 50-seat play space

What it is

Hareruya Nipponbashi is the Osaka branch of Hareruya, Japan's largest Magic: The Gathering retail chain (its Tokyo flagship is Hareruya Akihabara). It opened on the edge of Nipponbashi/Den Den Town — Osaka's otaku and hobby district — about a one-minute walk from Nankai Namba Station's exit.

Like the Tokyo store, it sells MTG booster packs, singles and supplies and buys cards, and it's built around organized play: a free play space the shop lists at 50 seats hosts events most days, from casual weeknight games to weekend tournaments. The chain runs an English-language shop page and event listings, so it's workable for a visiting player who doesn't read Japanese, though play itself happens in Japanese.

If you're doing a Den Den Town crawl, it sits close to hobby shops like Yellow Submarine Namba and the district's other stores covered in our Den Den Town Osaka guide — for Pokémon instead of Magic, the Hareruya group's card-game sister store Hareruya2 Namba is a short walk away near Namba Sennichimae.

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