In the heart of Tokyo’s bustling Ikebukuro shopping district, a paradise for miniature toys and anime dreams beckons. Ikebukuro Gashapon Department Store, the world’s largest retail store of its kind, is not just an ordinary store, but also the promised land of toys in plastic capsules.

Gashapon, also called gachapon, is a trademark of Bandai. Among the variety of vending machine-dispensed capsule toys that originated in the 1960s, it became popular in Japan and elsewhere. “

The Gashapon Department Store, located inside Ikebukuro shopping centre, is now home to the largest number of gashapon machines at a single location, boasting a whopping 3,000 capsule toy machines.

The world’s largest gachapon store opened in 2021 and quickly became a hot spot for capsule toy collectors across Japan. With the machines arranged according to toy collections, this is the perfect place to hunt for that last piece needed to complete your beloved figure collection. Maybe with thousands of machines, the store can get you lost, but there will be a team of staff ready to assist at any time.

According to the Internet