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Animate Ikebukuro Flagship
The largest anime goods store in the world, rebuilt in 2023 across ten floors.
The Animate flagship reopened in 2023 as a ten-floor building with a theatre, a café and an event hall on top of the retail floors. Each floor is organised by product type — manga, character goods, doujinshi, music, stationery — and current-season anime dominate the ground floors.
Why it is worth it
If you want one store that covers every current anime rather than a single IP, this is it.
Only here
Store-limited bonus items with purchases, and doujinshi floors that have no overseas equivalent.
When to go
Weekends are heavy, especially the ground floor. Weekday mornings are calm.
Good to know
Tax-free counter is on an upper floor. Keep receipts together and process everything at once.
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