Pokémon Center shops in Japan

A Pokémon Center is The Pokémon Company's own full-size shop: plush, apparel, stationery, homeware, sealed cards, and goods made for that shop and sold nowhere else — the Yokohama one has its own, so does Kyoto. Most large cities have one, usually on an upper floor of a department store or a station building, and the busiest open with a queue. What they do not sell is single cards: for those, a card shop in Akihabara, Ikebukuro or Den Den Town is the place. New card sets sell out on the morning of release.