There are certain places in Japan where you can pretty much always find capsule toy vending machines. Electronics shops, for example, usually have a row of them near their entrance or in the corner of ...

Sanrio and Takara Tomy announced a new Sanrio Characters Sushi 2 collection of gacha toys that will appear in capsule machines in Japan. They are set to appear starting around September 8, 2025, and ...

With almost 3,000 to collect, you can pull for some of McDonald's rarest toys.

Takara Tomy will release new gacha toys that makes various Sanrio mascots look like sushi. They’ll appear in gacha machines from mid-March 2024, and it’ll cost 300 JPY ($2) per try. [Thanks, Hobby ...

Our reporter Yuuichiro Wasai was wandering around Harajuku the other day looking for something to eat but nothing seemed to call out to him. He scanned menus outside restaurants, searched online for ...

In the past decade, a new genre of mobile games has exploded in Japan and the world at large: the “gacha” game. Named for real-life gachapon — coin-operated machines that dispense random capsule toys ...

Gacha games are everywhere now. They’ve been filling Google Play and the App Store for years, and now you can play plenty of them on PC or even console. The gacha game “genre” is stronger than ever, ...

TOKONAME, Aichi -- Capsule toys sold from vending machines at Chubu Centrair International Airport are becoming a popular souvenir item for foreign tourists leaving Japan. Earlier this month, T-Arts ...

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LOS ANGELES, March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Pop-up store "Gacha & Catch," (The joint project between Japan Entertainment One Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, TOMY Company, Ltd ...