TV Tokyo Honpo Tokyo Station

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TV Tokyo's official shop, selling its own goods across drama, anime and variety. TV Tokyo is the channel that carries a great deal of the anime a foreign viewer has actually seen, so of the five channel shops on this street it is the one most worth a look even if you cannot name a single Japanese programme.

To know · The shop's page describes its range by genre and not by title, so what is on the shelves is whatever the channel is pushing when you walk in. It is a shop to look into rather than to plan for.

Trap · A channel holds broadcast rights, not every piece of merchandise. The big titles usually have their own shops elsewhere in Tokyo with far more stock, and this counter carries the channel's own goods.