Toranoana Ikebukuro Store B
Toranoana's Ikebukuro Store B is one of the shops that defines Otome Road — a women-only 7th-floor doujinshi and BL/otome goods floor a minute from Ikebukuro Station.
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Super Potato Nipponbashi (Ota Road Store)
A single-floor retro video game specialty shop on Osaka's Otaroad, billed by the operator as having the largest retro-game selection in western Japan. Open every day, no closures.
Mandarake Nagoya
A four-floor Mandarake branch in Nagoya's Osu shopping district, open every day of the year, buying and selling secondhand manga, toys, doujinshi, idol goods and cosplay.
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Jungle Nagoya
Jungle Nagoya is a two-floor secondhand hobby shop on Osu's Akamon-dori arcade specializing in tokusatsu heroes, robot anime and figure collectibles, with current-series merchandise downstairs and vintage finds like Kamen Rider and Mazinger Z upstairs.
animate Nagoya
animate Nagoya is the chain's main Nagoya store: three floors of manga, light novels, character goods, figures, trading cards and anime/game CDs and DVDs a short walk from Nagoya Station. It is not near the Osu shopping district — that's a separate area a few subway stops away.
Lashinbang Ikebukuro Women's Doujin Store
A multi-floor branch of secondhand chain Lashinbang on Ikebukuro's Otome Road, dedicated to female-fan doujinshi and character goods, on floors 4F–6F of the Kindai Bldg. 21.
Sunshine City
Sunshine City is Ikebukuro's giant shopping, dining and entertainment complex built around the Sunshine 60 tower. For otaku visitors the current draw is Bandai Namco Cross Store Tokyo and rotating anime pop-ups, while the flagship Pokémon Center MEGA TOKYO is temporarily closed (reopening targeted around September 2026).
Yellow Submarine Akihabara RPG Shop
One of Japan's largest tabletop-game specialty stores, run by hobby chain Yellow Submarine — TRPGs (including Japanese-language Dungeons & Dragons), board games and dice, with a pay-per-table play space near Akihabara.
Don Quijote Akihabara
Don Quijote's 24-hour Akihabara flagship, packed with anime, idol and VTuber merch alongside the usual discount-store mix — and, in the same building, AKB48's home theater on the 8th floor.
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Sofmap AKIBA Amusement-kan
Sofmap AKIBA's Amusement-kan is an eight-floor game and hobby specialty store near Akihabara Station, stocking everything from new and used TV games to anime goods, plastic models and figures, with a top-floor idol and gravure event space.
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TRADER Akihabara Main Store
TRADER's Akihabara flagship: an eight-floor (B1F–7F) secondhand games-and-hobby shop on Chuo-dori selling everything from retro Famicom titles to anime figures, plastic models and PC games, with a basement buyback counter. The current building opened in May 2024 on the site of a former TRADER branch that had closed back in 2021; today TRADER runs just two shops in Akihabara — this Main Store and a smaller Branch 2 near the JR tracks.
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Lashinbang Akihabara New Store
Lashinbang's largest branch in Japan — two floors of secondhand figures, character goods, doujinshi and anime CDs/DVDs inside Akiba Cultures Zone. Tax-free shopping is available, but there's no English signage on site.
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Melonbooks Akihabara 1st Store
Melonbooks Akihabara 1st Store is the flagship Akihabara branch of major doujinshi (self-published manga, novels & games) chain Melonbooks, in the basement of the Hirose Building about 2 minutes from the station. General-audience and adult (R18) sections are shelved separately, as at other Melonbooks stores.
TAMASHII NATIONS STORE TOKYO
Bandai Spirits' directly-run flagship TAMASHII NATIONS store beside Akihabara Station, displaying 400+ collector figures across Gundam, Kamen Rider, Ultraman and more. Admission is free, but a checkout sign confirms it is not a tax-free shop.
Volks Akihabara Hobby Tengoku 2
Volks' seven-floor Akihabara hobby flagship on Chuo-dori, with figures, model kits, paints and trading cards spread across dedicated floors and an event hall on 6F–7F.
Life-Size Unicorn Gundam Statue
A 19.7m, roughly 49-ton life-size RX-0 Unicorn Gundam has stood in Festival Plaza outside DiverCity Tokyo Plaza in Odaiba since 2017, transforming between Unicorn and Destroy Mode for free several times a day. After nearly nine years, the exhibition ends for good on August 31, 2026.
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Pokémon Cafe TOKYO
Tokyo's official, reservation-only Pokémon-themed café, one floor above 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.
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Volks Osaka Showroom
Volks' flagship Osaka store in Den Den Town — a six-floor hobby complex renovated in 2025, with a dedicated garage-kit/plastic-model floor (3F) and the official Dollfie Dream boutique, Doll Point Osaka (5F).
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Hareruya2 Namba Store
Hareruya2's first branch outside Tokyo — a Pokémon TCG specialty store on the 5th floor of COCONAMBA, 2 minutes from Nankai Namba Station, with an 80-seat play space.
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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.
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Mandarake LaLaLa Ikebukuro
Mandarake's Otome Road branch — secondhand BL and shoujo manga, female doujinshi, male-idol goods and trading cards, on the female-fan-focused strip near Sunshine City.
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Kiddyland Harajuku
Harajuku's five-floor character-goods department store — Chiikawa Land, Sonny Angel pop-ups, Rilakkuma, Hello Kitty and a dedicated Snoopy basement, floor by floor.
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Yellow Submarine Namba Main Store
Hobby & TCG shop at the Namba/Otaroad edge of Den Den Town — trading cards, figures, plastic models, plus an in-store duel space.
Maidreamin Osaka Nipponbashi Otaroad
Branch of Japan's biggest maid-café chain on Den Den Town's Otaroad — songs, moe performances and a tourist-friendly maid-café experience.
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Surugaya Osaka Nipponbashi Main Store — Den Den Town, daily 10:00–21:00
Den Den Town's flagship Surugaya: figures, plastic models, retro & modern games, toys and collectibles, open daily 10:00–21:00, 5 min from Ebisucho Station, with overseas shipping.
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Mandarake Grand Chaos
Osaka's flagship Mandarake — a multi-floor treasure house of used manga, vintage toys, figures, doujinshi and collectibles in Den Den Town.
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Joshin Super Kids Land Honten (Nipponbashi)
One of Japan's largest hobby superstores — five floors of plastic models, Gundam, RC, model trains and toys in the heart of Den Den Town.
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Animate Osaka Nipponbashi
Western Japan's flagship of the biggest anime-goods chain, on Den Den Town's Otaroad — two floors of manga, character merch and game goods.
Tokyo Character Street
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.
Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
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.
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Pokémon Center SHIBUYA
The Shibuya branch of the official Pokémon Center, on Shibuya PARCO 6F — a darker, 'urban/mysterious' themed store with plush, cards, exclusives and a Mewtwo display.
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Nintendo TOKYO
Nintendo's first official store in Japan, on Shibuya PARCO 6F — Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Animal Crossing and Kirby goods, exclusives and life-size photo spots.
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The Gundam Base Tokyo
The official Gunpla flagship in DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, Odaiba — every Gundam model kit, exclusives, builder zones, and the life-size Unicorn Gundam statue outside.
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Pokémon Center MEGA TOKYO
The largest Pokémon Center in the Ikebukuro area, in Sunshine City's alpa mall. Temporarily closed — reopening expected around September 2026.
K-BOOKS Ikebukuro Otome-kan
K-BOOKS' Otome-kan on Ikebukuro's Otome Road, specializing in otome-game and BL character goods and doujin items for female fans.
animate Ikebukuro Flagship Store
animate's flagship and one of the world's largest anime shops, anchoring Ikebukuro's Otome Road — multiple floors of anime, manga and character goods.
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Mandarake Nakano
Mandarake's original operation inside Nakano Broadway — dozens of genre-specialized shops across the floors selling manga, figures, vintage toys, dolls and rare collectibles.
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Nakano Broadway
Iconic 1966 mall in Nakano packed with subculture shops — home to dozens of specialist Mandarake stores plus figures, retro toys, idol goods and dolls.
Hareruya2 Akihabara Tower Store
Whole-building Pokémon TCG specialty store with a 152-seat play space and daily Pokémon tournaments, from the Hareruya group.
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Card Rush Akihabara
Multi-TCG store seconds from Akihabara Station with a ~45-seat duel space and strong Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece and Magic ranges.
BIG MAGIC Akihabara
Large multi-TCG store on the 9th floor of Radio Kaikan, stocking Magic, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh and more, with dueling space and official Pokémon events.
Hareruya Akihabara: Hours, Access & How to Join Daily MTG Events
Hareruya's Akihabara flagship (Mikasa Bldg 2F–5F, 1 min from the station) runs daily Magic: The Gathering tournaments and a free 32-seat play space, with an English website and event listings — one of the easiest Tokyo card shops for overseas players to walk into and join. Hours, access and what to expect inside (verified against the official store page, July 2026).
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Twin Box AKIHABARA
Idol-focused live house in the Box'R AKIBA Building, with a basement live floor and a ground-floor 'GARAGE' space, hosting frequent idol events.
Akihabara Dear Stage
Idol bar and live spot in the DEMPA Building, famous as the birthplace of idol group Dempagumi.inc; staff perform between serving drinks.
Maidreamin (Akihabara Main Store)
Branch of one of Japan's largest maid café chains, with multilingual menus and overseas maids — accessible for first-time foreign visitors.
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@home cafe (Akihabara Main Store)
One of Akihabara's best-known maid cafés, across several floors of the Mitsuwa Building, welcoming foreign 'masters' and 'princesses' home.
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AKB48 Theater
Home theater of idol group AKB48 on the 8th floor of Don Quijote Akihabara, hosting near-daily live stage shows by the group's teams.
GiGO Akihabara Building 2
GiGO (formerly SEGA) Akihabara arcade focused on crane games, with a collab-cafe stand. Note: the older No.1 building closed in Aug 2025.
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Akihabara Gachapon Kaikan
Capsule-toy landmark open since 2002 with around 500 gachapon machines, from anime figures to quirky 'grown-up' designs. Cash only.
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Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Akiba
Giant electronics megastore directly at Akihabara Station, with a large toy/hobby floor of figures, models, trading cards and games.
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Kotobukiya Akihabara
Flagship of figure/model maker Kotobukiya: five floors of figures, plastic models and original kits, plus the VstoreAKIBA VTuber official shops.
Surugaya Akihabara Main Store
Surugaya's flagship Akihabara store on 'Junk Alley': a large multi-floor secondhand shop for anime goods, figures, games and trading cards.
AmiAmi Akihabara Radio Kaikan Store
Major hobby retailer AmiAmi's physical shop on the 4th floor of Radio Kaikan: figures, character goods, plastic models and trading cards.
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animate Akihabara
Flagship Akihabara branch of Japan's largest anime/manga goods chain — a multi-floor main building plus a second building and an ANNEX.
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Super Potato Akihabara
Akihabara's landmark retro game store: vintage consoles and software across three floors, topped by a 5F retro arcade.
Mandarake Complex Akihabara
Eight floors of secondhand otaku treasure: vintage figures, doujinshi, retro toys, cosplay and collectibles, each floor with its own theme.
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Akihabara Radio Kaikan
Akihabara's landmark hobby tower right by the station: ten floors of figures, anime goods, trading cards, dolls and model kits.
Suruga-ya Nagoya Osu Trading Card & Board Game Hall
Suruga-ya's TCG/board-game specialty store in Osu, Nagoya — Yu-Gi-Oh!, Duel Masters, Pokémon Card Game and import/domestic board games, with an in-store duel space, open daily 12:00–20:00.
Suruga-ya Nagoya Osu Main Store
Suruga-ya's Nagoya Osu flagship, spanning floors 3F–5F near Kamimaezu Station: figures, plastic models and modeling tools, toys, games, books and anime CDs/DVDs, open daily 10:00–21:00 with no closed days.
Lashinbang Nagoya Osu
A secondhand anime-goods store inside the MultinaBox building on Osu's arcade, about 4 minutes from Kamimaezu Station — figures, doujinshi, Blu-ray/DVD/CD and used games, open daily with buyback until 18:00.