By the way, do you know that the stations of Yurikamome Line are a little more special than others? Since 2006, all the stations use the recorded voices of different popular voice actors for their announcements. I have summarized in the following picture. I also displayed anime characters played by each voice actors. (Dear voice actress lovers, so sorry!)

When considering Japanese pop culture, though we tend to pay more attention to anime, manga, and video games, toys also are unique. In many countries, toys are designed for young children, but there are thousand of toys for adults in Japan, as same as anime and manga.

The Tokyo Toy Show on June 16, Saturday. So many people! You will get lost if you don’t hold mom’s hand. Ha ha :D

Pikachu car at the TOYOTA booth. This was the best “kawaii” car I have ever seen! TOYOTA is making some kind of Pokemon cars for each events. All of Pokemon cars have the general road driving permission, and the driving method is same as normal cars. They have also acquired license plates properly. But unfortunately, we as commoners cannot buy them.

Sylvanian Families, Japanese long-selling dollhouse series. The series have sold over 78 millions plastic figures in the worldwide since its release in 1985. Almost all Japanese young girls have its animal families and houses. I used to have a gray colored rabbit families and a small white house with red roof.
There are few Sylvanian Families Restaurant as well, popular with parents who have kids.

BANDAI is one of the biggest toy maker in japan. There is a 20 minutes wait to take into the booth. OK, let’s cue up…

New TV hero series from this October. Who is going to be?

Thousand of monsters and heroes!

Official website of The International Tokyo Toy Show is follows.