Gacha at Japanese airports: use up your coins before you fly
Foreign currency exchanges usually won't take coins, so many travelers spend their last ¥100 coins on gacha at the airport. The big international airports have rows of machines and even full gacha shops. Here is where to find them. Layouts and opening hours change, so check the airport's own floor maps on the day.
Haneda Airport (Tokyo)
- Terminal 3 (international): the Tokyo Pop Town area on the 5th floor has Gacha World, a dedicated capsule toy shop with hundreds of machines, plus a Hakuhinkan Toy Park toy store.
- Terminal 1 (domestic): GASHAPON SKY SHOP, Bandai's airport gacha shop.
Narita Airport (Tokyo)
- Terminal 1: a large group of machines on the 5th floor of the central building, above the departure lobby shops, and a Gacha World shop on B1 before security.
- Terminal 2: a big machine area on B1 near the convenience store, and Narita Anime Deck, a gacha and anime goods shop in the main building.
- The JR station under Terminal 1 also has a Gashapon corner.
Kansai Airport (Osaka)
Terminal 1 has GACHA MATSURI, a festival-themed gacha shop in the 4th floor shopping area, and more machines on the 1st floor and after international security near the gates.
Chubu Centrair (Nagoya)
Terminal 1 has Dream Capsule, a gacha shop in Sky Town on the 4th floor, plus machine corners on the 1st floor and near the escalators from the 3rd floor departure lobby. The Flight of Dreams complex next door has more.
Other airports
- New Chitose (Sapporo): a Gashapon Bandai Official Shop in the domestic terminal.
- Naha (Okinawa): a Joy Jungle shop in the domestic arrivals lobby.
- Aso Kumamoto: a GiGO arcade in the passenger terminal.
Tips
- Some machines are before security and some after. If you want time to browse, look before you go through.
- Airport shops stock travel-themed and Japan-themed sets, like miniature airplanes, airport vehicles and food, that make good last-minute souvenirs.
- Capsules take space. Most shops have a box to recycle them.