NHK Character Shop Tokyo Station

Families with kids

The public broadcaster's shop, and the one with the widest age range on the street: Domo-kun, the pre-school programmes Inai Inai Baa! and Miitsuketa!, the long-running ninja anime Nintama Rantaro, and merchandise from the year's historical drama. Three generations of a Japanese family find something here, which is unusual in a corridor of single-title shops.

To know · The pre-school goods and the historical-drama goods are at opposite ends of the same small room, so a look round takes two minutes rather than twenty.

Trap · Domo-kun is famous abroad and is only one shelf of this shop. If he is what you came for, look before you queue — the rest of the stock assumes you watch NHK.