The Toy of Tokyo Goes shopping
There are a lot of toys of big stores in and around Tokyo, and after the years to travel and to look for I compiled a guide to certain of the better about.
The Park of Toy of Hakuhinkan ae" Tokyo
Location: Ginza, Tokyo
Stations more close: Shimbashi or Ginza (almost 4 minima walk)
Hakuhinkan was one of the first toy goes shopping I visited to Tokyo as it is mentioned in almost all the guides. The this is at all the better store of toy, but the this is the value a visit. The first floor contains a pleasant selection of items of novelty and of strange gadgets and this is there where I tend to spend most of my time. The floor remainder contain a good selection of Japanese and of toys of the west therefore if you look at to obtain just some toys to retrieve for the friends and the parents this is a good place to visit.
Yamashiroya
Location: Ueno, Tokyo
Station more close: Ueno
Now this is really a big store, Yamashiroya is spread through a lot of floors that it is absolutely stuck with the toys, the games, the gadgets; you name it, the this is in here somewhere. It contains big selections of Japanese toys and west, with a Transformers and the Wars Of The pleasant Etoiles selections. The this is very hard to enter into this store without the expenditures of some money, even if it us just in the machines of Gashapon outside.
A strange rule in this store is that you have the salary for your items on the ground they are found on, if as you climb of the expenditures of your money, you finish by with more and more of bags of items than you bought on the ground to the under.
Monster japan
Location: Ebisu, Tokyo
Station more close: Ebisu
Monster japan is a shop hid on the superior floors of incorporate Ebisu, Tokyo and specialize themselves in the toys and the American importations. Although all the toys are importations can find you always a market, especially if the course is good. They have good ranges of War Of The Etoiles, the Transformers, G. I. Joe, and the toys of all the last films.
Kiddy Earth
Location: Harajuku, Tokyo
Stations more close: Meijijingumae, Harajuku
Do not leave the name idiot you, the Earth of Kiddy is not just for the childlike ones, although you will find it a place really occupied. More than seven Etaler floors this is a store of fantastic toys for everyone.
On every floor will find you a different range of toys of everywhere in the world. They have the biggest collection of toys of Snoopy and Groundnuts I think than I never saw and a big selection of certain ones of the a lot darling and cuddly characters of bigger Japan caricatures of animate.
Kiddy Earth is a store chain with the stores in the other locations to Japan.
Astro Mike
Location: Harajuku, Tokyo
Stations more close: Meijijingumae, Harajuku
Astro Mike is a small store of toy hid in the remote streets of Harajuku, Tokyo. Although it is only someone square meters in the size it is packed the floor to the ceiling with the toys of all types. Of Smurfs to the this of War Of The Etoiles is almost all in there. The personnel always was really friendly and anxious to help that it does well the value a visit, and it is only a short walk of Kiddyland.
Akihabara
Location: Akihabara, Tokyo
Station more close: Akihabara
Although Akihabara more better is known for is the electric city selling all electronics and all gadgets known, all this is also a big place for the toy collector.
Immediately that you take out the station of Akihabara surrounded by you the big and small stores gadgets of sale to profusion. But in the middle these will find you enough stores of toy. Animate to have a big store here, but most of are small independent stores that come and goes. Every time visited us there were different stores to find. This is also the better place to be going to find the machines of Gashapon, that are on most of the corners and outside most of the stores.
Nakano Broadway
Location: Nakano, Tokyo
Station more close: Nakano
The gallery bargains over Broadway of Nakano is the location of probably the biggest and better collection of stores of toy and collection object to Tokyo. Localized on the second, the third and the quarter terrace is absolutely stuck it with the shops specializing themselves in every type of old one in demand toy and new.
Certain of my favorite stores in Nakano are the Robot of Mandarake and Robot. Mandarake has loads of different here every stores to set up on a different sector. The store of Cosplay is worth a look. You can take even your old objects of collection there to exchange in for the types.
The it is easy to spend a just entire day leafing through here the a lot of small, every stores stuck to the edge with the things.
Sun city
Location: Ikebukuro
Station more close: Ikebukuro
The sun city is one of the better all commercial circular centers to Tokyo, we spend often an entire day looking at about. On the toy going shopping the in front of there is a rather big Toys R United States to the basement that not book never. It always has a good selection of toys of style of the west and Japanese. And certain of the maternal school jokes of the toys are the this darling so rotten one is strong no to obtain another Doreamon for your collection.
Outside the City of Sun will find you a small row of stores specializing themselves in Ate including Animates of the and the k-livres.
Posted on January 21, 2010.