Capsule toy vending machines, or 'gacha' machines, can be found all over Japan. They dispense random toys and collectibles for a small fee, with themed machines covering everything from popular anime ...

Before I visited Japan, I always had the idea that the gachapon capsule toy machines were really plentiful. I expected I’d see them everywhere. This proved mostly true! The KIX airport had some both ...

When I'm walking through a shopping mall trying to kill some time, I find myself in front of a capsule toy machine before I ...

A 300-yen Gachapon. Who exactly is making the money?When shopping at a mall, you see rows and rows of Gachapon machines."I ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo’s Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

Organized by The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA), the four-day, sold-out convention Anime Expo welcomed turnstile attendance of over 422,000 fans from over 65 different ...

Shop X, a "micro village" featuring retail brands as part of the Post Houston downtown shopping complex in Houston, features Gachapon vending machines found in Tokyo's Akihabara district, according to ...

If you ever go to Japan, you may notice these little machines that look familiar back home. They’re capsule machines with little toys and they’re called Gachapon. The reason they’re called that is ...

The largest capsule toy brand - current is GASHAPON™, a trademark owned and operated by BANDAI Co., Ltd. (Japan), from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025. The record is based on market research carried out ...

Bandai Namco will open its flagship Gashapon capsule toy store in Ikebukuro on February 26, 2021. The store will offer a wide variety of capsule toys, including many store-exclusives. The store will ...