Pokémon Card Store November 2026: 5 Pop-Ups, Nov 13–Dec 6

You are planning a November trip to Japan, Aura Seeker (ハドウシーカー) lands on Friday, November 27, and you have just seen that Pokémon Card Store (ポケモンカードストア) pop-ups are coming back. The official Pokémon Card Game site now lists five stores opening November 13, 2026, in Aichi, Shizuoka, Saitama, Osaka and Wakayama prefectures, with the last three running to December 6. None is inside Tokyo, and each one lets you in once per day, checked by face.

Where are the Pokémon Card Store pop-ups in November 2026?

Five shopping malls, all opening Friday, November 13, 2026. Two close on Sunday, November 29; three stay open until Sunday, December 6. Everything below comes from the official notice as it read on October 31, 2026.

Opening day is the one exception: on Friday, November 13, every store runs to 19:00 (Shizuoka PARCO opens at 10:30 that day, the others at 10:00). Monday, November 23 is a national holiday in Japan (Labor Thanksgiving Day), so expect the weekend-and-holiday hours that day.

This is a new wave, not a continuation. The summer stores we covered in July (Chofu PARCO and four AEON Malls in Miyagi, Aichi, Hiroshima and Fukuoka) closed on August 16. The notice page keeps the same address, so if you bookmarked it in the summer, the content behind that link has been replaced.

Which pop-up can I reach from Tokyo or Osaka?

From Tokyo, LaLaport Fujimi. From Osaka, AEON Mall Sakai Teppocho first, AEON Mall Wakayama second. The Aichi and Shizuoka stores are realistic only if you are already passing through central Japan.

Official image © The Pokémon Company (from the linked official page).

LaLaport Fujimi (Saitama). This is the only store in the Greater Tokyo area. The mall’s own access page lists buses from four stations: about 6 minutes from the east exit of Tsuruse Station (鶴瀬駅), about 20 minutes from Fujimino Station, 25 to 30 minutes from Shiki Station, all on the Tobu Tojo Line, and 35 to 50 minutes from the west exit of Omiya Station. The Tobu Tojo Line starts at Ikebukuro. We are not quoting a door-to-door time from central Tokyo, because the mall does not publish one and bus frequency varies by day; check the timetable linked from that page for your date.

AEON Mall Sakai Teppocho (Osaka). The store sits in the 3F AEON Hall. The mall’s access guide lists Nankai buses between Sakaihigashi Station (堺東駅) and the mall, and also mentions bicycle parking on the Shichido Station (七道駅) side. For a visitor based in Namba or Umeda, this is the closest of the five.

AEON Mall Wakayama. The mall’s access guide publishes timetables for Wakayamadaigaku-mae Station (和歌山大学前駅, also signed Fujitodai), in both the Wakayama direction and the Namba and Kansai Airport direction. That last detail matters if you are flying out of Kansai: it is on the same line, not a detour.

For a Tokyo trip that also wants permanent shops, our guide to Tokyo’s Pokémon card stores covers the circuit inside the city. The pop-ups are a separate, temporary channel.

Are the stores open during Aura Seeker release week?

Yes, all five are open on Friday, November 27, 2026, the day Aura Seeker goes on sale. The difference is what comes after. LaLaport Aichi Togo and Shizuoka PARCO close two days later, on November 29. Fujimi, Sakai Teppocho and Wakayama keep going for another week, to December 6.

The official Aura Seeker page lists a suggested retail price of ¥200 per pack, tax included, and a release date of November 27. The store notice frames the November wave as opening “ahead of” (発売に先駆けて) that release. What it does not do is say the stores will carry Aura Seeker, in what quantity, or with what purchase limit. It describes the range only broadly: mainly Pokémon Card Game items such as expansion packs and related products, plus Pokémon Center original goods, some plush and sundries. If you want the set itself, the Aura Seeker release date and price breakdown has what is officially confirmed so far.

So the planning question for a visitor is narrower than “go on release day”. If your trip covers November 27, any of the five is open that Friday. If your trip lands in the first week of December, only the Saitama, Osaka and Wakayama stores are still there.

The one-visit rule, in short

The face-check rules carried over from the summer wave, and the detail is in our Pokémon Card Store facial recognition explainer. The November notice still says:

• Everyone of elementary-school age and up goes through facial recognition at entry and when receiving an entry ticket (入店整理券).
• Each person gets one entry and one entry ticket per day. A detected second entry or second ticket is refused uniformly.
• Accepting the face check and the rules is a condition of entry. Decline, and you get neither entry nor a ticket.

Two practical consequences. A group of four is four separate entries, so splitting up across different stores on the same day is fine, while coming back to the same store that afternoon is not. And there is no version of this that works from abroad: nobody can scan your face for you.

The free events: an Eevee promo classroom and a Step-Up day

Two teaching events run inside the stores, and the notice says the date, eligibility, entry method, fee and prize are common to all five venues.

Both events can close reception early once they hit capacity, and if you are more than five minutes late for your assigned meeting time, the notice says staff may give the seat to whoever is waiting. The notice also says prizes and event details can change without notice, so the Eevee promo is the listed prize, not a guarantee.

What the notice does not tell you

We have not visited any of the five November stores, and they are not open yet. Everything in this article comes from the official notice and the malls’ own access pages. Things you will see claimed elsewhere that the notice does not support:

If someone is selling “guaranteed” entry slots or quoting a fixed ticket handout time, they are not reading it from this page. The notice ends by noting that its rules can change without prior notice, so check it again the day before you go. If you will not be in Japan in this window, the guide to buying an Aura Seeker booster box from overseas covers the routes that do not depend on a pop-up door.