Anime Pop-Ups in Tokyo, October 2026: Shops, Collab Cafés and Exhibitions, With Dates

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Part of: Anime Events in Tokyo, Oct 2026–Mar 2027

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This started as October 2026's calendar of limited-time anime shops and cafés in Tokyo; checked against official pages again on 2 November 2026, most of the October-dated pop-ups below have now closed.

What is still running: Doraemon Mirai Depart's pop-up at Tokyo Dome City runs to 23 November; Capcom Cafe Ikebukuro's Ace Attorney collaboration runs to 26 November; and the Square Enix Cafe in Shinjuku has Final Fantasy X until 2 December. At Tokyo Anime Center in Shibuya, the Angelique 30th-anniversary exhibition ran to 8 November and has now closed, alongside the Love Live! Hasunosora pop-up (9–25 Oct) and the Cardcaptor Sakura pop-up at Tokyo Solamachi (3 Oct–1 Nov).

Every date below comes from the organiser's own page. I run private anime tours in Akihabara most weeks, and this is the list I give guests, now kept current rather than frozen at the October launch date.

Pop-ups change fast; check the official page or X account before you set off. Status below was last checked 2 November 2026.

Which anime pop-up shops are on in Tokyo now?

Checked against official pages again on 2 November 2026: of the October pop-ups, only Doraemon Mirai Depart at Tokyo Dome City is still running (to 23 November). Love Live! Hasunosora, Perfect Addiction, Palverse, the Cardcaptor Sakura TaKaRaBaKo pop-up, the Star Wars pop-up, Bread Thief and the Nameko kit have all closed.

The venues still running a pop-up or exhibition, on the map. Tap one for directions.

For conventions and big events, see anime events in Tokyo; for the shops that are there all year, my Akihabara anime tour covers Akihabara.

Which anime collab cafés are on in Tokyo now?

Checked again on 2 November 2026: Capcom Cafe Ikebukuro's Ace Attorney 25th anniversary (9 Oct–26 Nov) and the Square Enix Cafe & Shop Shinjuku's Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary (11 Sep–2 Dec) are both still running.

ufotable Cafe Tokyo's October Demon Slayer and Tales of phases have all closed; its next Demon Slayer phase, "Musubi no En", opens 3 November. Cure Maid Café's café in Akihabara never ran the collaboration originally announced for 10–25 October; it's currently running a Touhou Project autumn festival instead (30 Oct–15 Nov).

The cafés on the map. Tap one for directions.

This is the honest section. Many collab cafés use lotteries or bookings, and pop-ups use numbered or shuffle tickets on opening days. Anime collab cafés in Tokyo explains how booking systems work.

Which anime exhibitions are on in Tokyo now?

Checked again on 9 November 2026: Tokyo Anime Center's Angelique 30th Memorial Museum (2 October–8 November, timed tickets) has closed; no successor exhibition is listed at that venue yet (the next one booked there is a TIGER & BUNNY exhibition from 22 January 2027). Bandai Spirits' TAMASHII NATIONS STORE TOKYO live-action figure expo (Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Godzilla) closed on 26 October. The Toei Animation Museum in Nerima's Precure film exhibition continues into 2027.

The Toei Animation Museum has the details of the last one.

What's new in Tokyo this autumn?

ULTRAMAN STORE TOKYO opened as planned on 9 October, on B2 of Ikebukuro PARCO's main building, a new official Ultraman shop with a video "Ultra Fight Window"; Tsuburaya's own site confirmed it with a 30 October report on the shop, checked again 2 November 2026. Tokyo Comic Con follows on 11–13 December at Makuhari, with tickets on sale now.

If you shop tax-free on your trip, from 1 November 2026 you pay the tax at the till and get it back after a customs check at the airport; tax-free shopping in Japan after November 2026 explains.

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About the author. I am Yuuki, a Japanese teacher and Akihabara anime tour guide based in Tokyo. I run private anime tours here most weeks, rated 4.96★ on Airbnb across 171 reviews. I have watched over 1,500 anime series, which is either a qualification or a warning depending on your point of view.

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Sources · checked 4 October 2026

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