Best places: Hobby stores in Japan

👍👍 This is the BEST Pokémon center I visited in Japan. It deserves 10 ⭐s ✓Great selection of memorabilia ✓Interactive digital Pokédex ✓Huge Snorlax at the entrance ✓ History of Pokémon and Pokémon games ✓ Visit the Pokémon café: it's a good pit stop. ✓ Pokémon Café: see Eevee dance with kids ✓ Pokémon...

The computer game sensation, Pokemon, is celebrated in all its guises at this huge megastore.

👍👍 Nice people and good staff

👍👍 We came at 9:45, the store opens at 10AM, and the ticket we got for the store is already for 10:30AM. You definitely want to get there early. The store has everything from their popular games. Note that there’s only 1 entrance where they distribute the store ticket. Make sure to look for it. The lin...

👍👍 After finding the elevator, I made it to the store with the help of a kind security guard. The store was so much fun. The staff are great and were so helpful when I asked to take a picture with some pokemon stuff. Such a nice store as it was fully stocked and organized well. Loved seeing so much Pok...

👍👍 It's on the smaller side in comparison to other Pokemon Centres across Japan, but it more than makes up for that fact with the unique Mew Two statue and the new Pokemon Design Lab where you can make your own personalised T-Shirts with almost any Pokemon (Hoenn and some other regions were unavailable...

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🫤 Got a really bad experience. Certain staff were very friendly while others were outright rude As foreigners, please remember to ask for tax fund rebate because the cashier will not automatically initiate. This is very important because you will easily spend over 5400 yen which is the magical number...

👍👍 The best Pokémon center I’ve been to yet! There are numerous different Magikarp related goods that you can obtain only by visiting this Pokémon store. This is because the baseball team in Hiroshima is called the “Carps,” so Nintendo decided to combine the baseball team merch with the magikarp merch....

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😠 RACISM! I am French and resident of Japan. I came to this store 2 weeks ago and I was discriminated against. I called a seller because I had a question. I speak Japanese and I address myself in Japanese. The seller came to me and when he saw that I was not Japanese, he turned around and went to...

👍 They show all these awesome toys and only sell a fraction of them. The exclusive items are things you probably already own. It looks amazing inside, the displays are superb. But the shop can use some work and a better selection.

😠 I have been scammed by online shop. Bought a figurine for someone as a birthday present just to see that it's incomplete. Customer Service gaslighted my for a week that the part missing is not detachable when in truth it is. Don't buy in this shop/site if you value your time.

👍👍 Mandarake has quite a history as being the one stop shop of all anime, manga, and related items such as toys, collectibles for many decades. My first encounter with this amazing store was many years ago in 1999 when I was an exchange student in Tokyo (I even included a few shots of my visit to one o...

👍👍 A friendly place where they have a lot of Pokémon merchandise I would not be able to find in the Pokémon Center(aka Nintendo World)in New York. There were a few event themed merchandise like Halloween, Pikachu ♡ Eevee, and one I am not sure about where everything had a drawing of Ash/Red running w...

👍👍 Pokemon Center located on the 8th floor! There are many many many cute plush toys and other pokemon themed souvenirs too!

😐 This theme store is located on level 8 in AMU shopping mall which is just above Hakata station. The store is medium size with a large variety of goods. There are lots of kids and tourists here as expected but cashiers are moving pretty fast so there is not much waiting time. A good place for Pokemon...

👍👍 素晴らしいの一言。 地元関西の知人も知ってる人が少なく、正直賭けだった。 キティちゃん好きの年子の娘2人のために家族で年数回サンリオピューロランドに行っていたが、コロナでしばらくいけなかったので、帰省のこのタイミングでこちらに訪れる事が出来、本当によかった。 到着した時は入り口は工事してるし、思ってた...

👍 The sheer amount of Evangelion themes here in Hakone is staggering. Everywhere I look there's a Rei merchandise. Hell, the basement curry place I went to even had a cardboard cutout of her. Best girl. I only wish there was more unique, cooler Rei-based merchandise. Too much Shinji