Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Prior to all this, the Tamashii Nations brand had a small little showroom in the East West passage alongside Akihabara station.

Gundam Café Tokyo Brand Core opened on July 31 ... it appears that all the official Gundam Cafés will be closed. The first Gundam Cafe opened in 2010, and locations spread across the country.

Known to geeks the planet over as ground zero of swank fan culture, Tokyo’s Akihabara district has a new power stone in its helmet: The Gundam Cafe, which even has Gundam-themed toilets.

【閉店のお知らせ】 誠に勝手ながら、GUNDAM Café TOKYO BRAND CORE、お台場店、福岡店は2022年1月30日(日)、GUNDAM SQUAREは1月10日(月)をもちまして閉店させ ...

Opened in 2010, the world’s first official Gundam Cafe occupies a prime location in the centre of the Gundam fan world – Akihabara. This theme park-like café isn’t just for hard-core Gundam ...

Gundam Front Tokyo shut down for remodeling in April 2017 ... Behind the Gundam statue, there’s a trailer and a cafe where you can buy limited-edition goods and snacks (I grabbed a “Strike ...

giving players the chance to step inside of Japan’s very own themed cafe, called The Gundam Base Tokyo. The game’s epic yet small-scale battles often take place on table tops, shelves ...

There’s no place more fitting for an official Gundam Cafe than in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. Sadly Japanese maids don’t draw hearts in syrup over your pancakes or put “love spells” on y ...

and is such a huge presence in Japanese pop culture that Tokyo is currently on its second real-life, full-scale Gundam statute. So it’s kind of ironic that the two existing Gundam Cafe locations, both ...