Sunday, January 3, 2016

Evangelion Café

Another place I visited while in Sapporo was the Jiyū Kūkan Evangelion Café.



Outside the Urban Sapporo building where the café is located.




When you go in, it's easy to see which floor the café is on.




Menu and a screen showing an Evangelion trailer.




Rei banner.




There were lots of these posters here showing the inside of the café as well.




Outside the entrance to the place. Notice the big Eva-01 hands on the wall.




Closer look at the entrance. Jiyū Kūkan is a chain of manga cafés so they have all kinds of manga and games as well.




Right inside the place is this Eva-01 head.




So when combined with the hand decorations it looks like it's trying to break out of the place.




Cardboard cutouts of Asuka and Rei near the entrance and an event calendar.




Seating area inside the café.




They had these booths with golden couches.




Plastic chair seats.




And single seat sofas. Screens with Evangelion trailers running here as well.




Here's the menu with Evangelion food items.




Even had some breakfast and lunch items.




They had one of these SoftBank Pepper robots here as well. It greeted you if you walked up to it, and you could use the touch screen to hear about the menu.




It tried to maintain eye contact when you were close to it.




They also had life size figures of Kaworu.




And Rei. There were some Evangelion pachinko machines in a corner which you can also see in this picture.




Some jigsaw puzzles used for decorations.




And wall scrolls.




And this was yet another place with a guestbook.




Lots of drawings inside it. And there were also some artbooks you could look at.




Eva figure display.




And character figures as well.




They also had a gift shop here of course.




They sold everything from various food items.




To snacks.




Figures.




Cell phone covers and some Blu-Rays in the upper right corner.




Clear files.




And manga.




I also saw this Mayoi Hachikuji that somebody on the staff had drawn on a blackboard here.



Location map:


This location was visited on 2015/10/27.

Links:
Jiyū Kūkan official website

Yoani - Yag Festa

Another place I stumbled upon while in Sapporo was the local branch of Yoani, Yoyogi Animation School. They had a school festival called YAG Festa while I were there.



It's located inside the Tanukikoji Shopping Street, so I passed by each day on my way to the subway.




They had food stalls outside on the first day.




The entrance.




On the second day there were some bad weather, so they didn't have any food stalls then.




Art in the window.




Signed Seiyu's Life! poster. They also had various shikishi autograph boards inside.




Picture from inside the building. I didn't spend a lot of time here since I had other places to visit though.




I picked up one of these festival programs while there.



Location map:



This location was visited on 2015/10/24, 2015/10/25 and 2015/10/28.

Links:
Yoani official website

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Mirai St Café

While in Sapporo I stumbled upon the Mirai.St Café, so here are some pictures.



This café is run by Crypton, so they have lots of Hatsune Miku goods for sale.




Including post cards and cellphone covers.




Notepads and t-shirts.




And even Hatsune Miku socks and shoes.




Vocaloid piperoid and nanoblock models as well.




They also had this whiteboard where you could leave messages or drawings.




Later on I also saw a Hatsune Miku video playing in the nearby Tanukikoji Shopping Street.



Location map:



This location was visited on 2015/10/22.

Links:
Café official website

Kanon - PV Locations

In the first Kanon Promotional Video that was released there's 2 locations that was not shown in the show itself. This PV is included on the teaser DVD Kanon Prelude that was released in Japan. These locations are close to the tram stop Yamahanakujō Station in Sapporo.



Image from PV1 - 00m33s


This pet shop is called Ria Pet Shop in real life.




Image from PV1 - 00m14s


The church in the background is no longer there, but other than that it's a pretty good match. On the left is a 7-Eleven store.




Image from Episode 8 - 11m59s


On the other side of the 7-Eleven store is this place that was shown in the show. I've marked the path from the pet shop to the 7-Eleven in the map below.



Location map:



This location was visited on 2015/10/29.

Special thanks to the ones who went here before:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/paffue/20121228/1356646125
http://www.cuhkacs.org/~yanlee/blog/read.php?1149