There is a particularly interesting shop, Kaguya, which displays new and vintage plastic scale models. You can also find a cosplay shop, with an extensive display of costumes and accessories for animes like Shingeki no Kyojin, Love Live, and Sailor Moon.ĢA Special 1 – toys and figures from Ultraman, Transformers, Zoids, Votoms, and kaiju characters.ĢB Special 5 – American toys (Marvel, DC, Star Wars, etc.), LEGO, HotToys.ĢC Card-kan – game cards, trading cards, and stickers.ĢD Special 4 – PVC and trading figures, capsule toys, One Piece P.O.P There are a lot of collectible toys, from Japanese superheroes to Marvel, DC, and Star Wars, new and retro video games and consoles, game cards, and DVDs, Blu-ray, and CDs of movies and animes. Housing a melange of shops, the second floor (2F) gives a good jumpstart to your shopping spree. It currently has 32 shops, which occupy most of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of Nakano Broadway (there is one shop on 1F – Mon which displays Mandarake’s featured products and auction items). And if you’re a manga and anime fan, then you have a pretty good reason to go here.Įstablished in 1987 in Nakano Broadway, Mandarake is one of the longest-standing and largest anime and manga stores not only in Japan but also in the whole world. This makes the area a good destination especially for people who want to veer away from mainstream shopping hubs like Akihabara or Ginza. However, Nakano Broadway is also home to nice restaurants and cafés, and connects to Nakano Sun Mall, a covered shopping street that houses many modern-day top brands of fashion and electronics. Roaming in the hallways is not as funky as in the bustling modern-day shopping district of Akihabara.

The nostalgic oldschool charm can be felt as you walk along the halls. The shopping mall itself, Nakano Broadway, where Mandarake’s flagship is housed in, is an old place. Mandarake is not as resounding as Akihabara is to the world, but with its long history and reputation, Mandarake is already well-known among full-fledged anime and manga fans in Japan. However, there is another one-stop shopping hub for the pop culture lovers that is perhaps not as widely famous as Akihabara but is also a notable shopping destination. Most anime and manga lovers and cosplayers can be seen flocking to Akihabara as it is indeed the cradle of many cosplay and anime stores.

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