Animate Cafe Ikebukuro — Restaurant in Tokyo

Good place for fans. The Cafe theme changes about once per month and they sell limited goods. Definitely check out the website before going since usually the first week of a new cafe theme requires reservations. For the next three weeks you can come freely. To buy the goods you need use the cafe and get at least one drink (600 yen).

We went to the Arina Tanemura cafe in the second week and were not disappointed. They really put some work into creating the atmosphere. Some of the goods we wanted to get were already sold out but they allow ordering. We were asked for a name and a telephone number and had to pay upfront and can now pick up the goods as soon as they...

Needless to say for anime and manga fans, the animate cafe in Ikebukuro is the to-go for the newest in all anime/manga products, including for doujinshis and character goods. If you're not too picky with price and quality, however, the nearby Book-Off or Mandarake will offer you much cheaper second hand books or goods though. That said, for the newest and first-hand quality, Animate Cafe would be the choice...

The food tastes like shit but is suuuuper pretty. Everything's really expensive but the lady at the counter (something like Miyahara or Mizuhara?) was REALLY patient with me as I struggled to communicate in broken English and broken Japanese. Idek man. I had a good time overall I...