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Pokémon shops in Japan

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The Pokémon Company runs its own shops in two sizes. A Pokémon Center is the full shop — plush, cards, the store's own regional goods, and often a queue at opening — and there is one in most large cities, usually on an upper floor of a department store or a station building. A Pokémon Store is the smaller format, found in stations and airports, handy on the way out of the country. Neither sells single cards: for those, a card shop in Akihabara or Ikebukuro is the place. Card releases sell out on the morning of release.

26 shops in 12 prefectures, with facts read on their official page.

See them on the map

Hokkaido (北海道)

Miyagi (宮城県)

Chiba (千葉県)

Tokyo (東京都)

  • K-BOOKS Ikebukuro Fancy-kanK-BOOKS 池袋ファンシー館Ikebukuro · 1F · Mon–Fri 12:00–20:00 · Sat–Sun 11:30–20:00Facts from the official websiteFigures
  • Pokémon Center MEGA TOKYOポケモンセンターメガトウキョーIkebukuro · 2F · Closing days not listed 10:00–20:00Facts from the official websiteCardsFigures
  • Pokémon Center SHIBUYAポケモンセンターシブヤ6F · Closing days not listed 10:00–21:00Facts from the official websiteCardsFigures
  • Pokémon Center Skytree Townポケモンセンタースカイツリータウン4F · Closing days not listed 10:00–21:00Facts from the official websiteCardsFigures
  • Pokémon Store Tokyo Stationポケモンストア 東京駅店Tokyo Station · 1F · Closing days not listed 10:00–20:30Facts from the official websiteFigures

Kanagawa (神奈川県)

Ishikawa (石川県)

Shizuoka (静岡県)

Aichi (愛知県)

  • Pokémon Center NAGOYAポケモンセンターナゴヤ2F · Closing days not listed 10:00–20:00Facts from the official websiteCardsFigures

Osaka (大阪府)

Hiroshima (広島県)

  • Pokémon Center HIROSHIMAポケモンセンターヒロシマ2F · Closing days not listed 10:00–20:00Facts from the official websiteCardsFigures

Fukuoka (福岡県)

Okinawa (沖縄県)

Elsewhere in Japan

How this list is built

A shop is listed when the licence is a real reason to go there: an official store, or a shop whose own pages say it stocks that universe. Nobody pays to be listed. How we check and rank, in full.