Nintendo Tokyo is a paradise for gamers and anime fans

Customers take photos of a Mewtwo statue while waiting to enter the Pokemon Center near Nintendo Tokyo in Shibuya, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. (CHRISTIAN LOPEZ/STARS AND STRIPES)
Customers take photos of a Mewtwo statue while waiting to enter the Pokemon Center near Nintendo Tokyo in Shibuya, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. (CHRISTIAN LOPEZ/STARS AND STRIPES)

Nintendo Tokyo is a paradise for gamers and anime fans

by Christian Lopez
Stars and Stripes

Fans of anime and video games — especially franchises that fall under the Nintendo umbrella — are making pilgrimages to the sixth floor of the newly opened Shibuya Parco building, site of Nintendo Tokyo.

The path to “Cyberspace Shibuya” — a term coined by Parco — is marked by customers carrying shopping bags emblazoned with Nintendo’s iconic red-and-white logo.

I visited about a week after it opened on Nov. 22, and lines to the sixth floor started at the ground floor of the 20-story complex.

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