Pokémon Cards Outside Tokyo: Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Fukuoka Stores

You have a Japan trip that runs through Osaka, Kyoto or Fukuoka, and every Pokémon card guide you find is about Tokyo. Outside Tokyo, Osaka is the best bet: two official Pokémon Centers plus a walkable card-shop cluster in Namba. Nagoya and Fukuoka come next, and Kyoto works as a short stop near Kyoto Station. Every store below was checked against its own official page on October 11, 2026. We have not visited these stores in person, so this guide covers where they are and when they open, not what is in the cases.

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Go to Osaka first: Pokémon Center Osaka (Umeda) and Pokémon Center Osaka DX (Shinsaibashi) for sealed product at list price, then Namba and Nipponbashi for singles. In Nagoya, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Sapporo, Sendai, Hiroshima and Yokohama, plan on one Pokémon Center plus one or two card shops.

The official store index also lists Pokémon Centers in Kanazawa (Kanazawa Forus 5F, 10:00–20:00), Kagawa (Marugamemachi Green East 1F in Takamatsu, 10:00–20:00) and Okinawa (Aeon Mall Okinawa Rycom 1F, 10:00–22:00). Store pages warn that hours can change, so re-check the week you travel.

Staying in Tokyo for part of the trip? The capital has its own guides: Tokyo Pokémon card shops and every open Pokémon Center in Tokyo.

Osaka: two Pokémon Centers and the Namba card shops

Osaka is the only city outside Tokyo with two Pokémon Centers, and its card shops sit within a short ride of the second one.

Pokémon Center Osaka is at Umeda 3-1-1, about five minutes on foot from the central exit of JR Osaka Station. Its official page now names the building LUCUA South 13F. Older official pages, including the Pokémon Card Station page, still call the same floor Daimaru Umeda 13F, so if your map app or an older guide says Daimaru, it is the same place. A Pokémon Card Station operates inside it. Expect timed entry on busy days: for Saturday, October 10 the store announced entry tickets from around 8:00, one per person, valid that day only.

Pokémon Center Osaka DX is on the 9th floor of the Daimaru Shinsaibashi Main Building, connected underground to exit 4 of Shinsaibashi Station on the Midosuji Line.

For singles, there are three verified branches in Namba and Nipponbashi. Both Card Labo pages list Pokémon Card Game packs and singles, and Hareruya2 describes itself as a Pokémon card specialist chain (ポケカ専門店):

• Hareruya2 Namba (晴れる屋2 なんば店): COCONAMBA 5F, Namba Sennichimae 7-10, Chuo-ku. Weekdays 12:00–21:00, weekends and holidays 10:00–21:00, with an 80-seat free play space.
• Card Labo Namba (カードラボ なんば店): Yasuda Building 1F, Nipponbashi 3-8-16, Naniwa-ku. The page notes it moved up from B1 to 1F. Weekdays 11:00–20:00, weekends and holidays 10:00–20:00.
• Card Labo Osaka Nipponbashi (カードラボ 大阪日本橋店): Ikeda Building No. 2, 5F, Nipponbashi-nishi 1-1-3, Naniwa-ku, about 10 minutes from Nankai Namba Station. Same hours as the Namba branch.

Kyoto: one Pokémon Center, two shops by Kyoto Station

Kyoto works best as a short stop, because the Pokémon Center and the card shops are in two different parts of town.

Pokémon Center Kyoto is on the 2nd floor of SUINA Muromachi in the Kyoto Economic Center building, directly connected to exit 26 of Hankyu Karasuma Station and close to Shijo subway station. That puts it in the Shijo shopping district, not at Kyoto Station.

The two card shops we could verify are both near Kyoto Station:

• Card Labo Avanti Kyoto (カードラボ アバンティ京都店): Kyoto Avanti 6F, one minute from the subway’s Kyoto Station. Open 10:00–21:00 every day, the earliest weekday opening of the two.
• Hareruya2 Kyoto (晴れる屋2 京都店): UI Building 6F, Higashinotoin-dori Shichijo-sagaru, Shimogyo-ku. Weekdays 12:00–21:00, weekends and holidays 10:00–21:00.

Nagoya: Osu is the card district

Nagoya’s Pokémon Center and its card district are one subway stop apart, which makes it an efficient half day.

Pokémon Center Nagoya is on the 2nd floor of Nagoya PARCO’s East Building, connected directly to Yabacho Station on the Meijo Line. A Pokémon Card Station operates inside, and the Card Station page lists its hours as 10:00–21:00, following PARCO’s hours, while the store page says 10:00–20:00. Plan around the earlier time.

Osu, next to Kamimaezu Station, has two verified branches:

• Card Labo Nagoya Osu (カードラボ 名古屋大須店): Banshoji Building 1F, Osu 3-30-40, three minutes from Kamimaezu exit 9. Open 11:00–20:00 every day.
• Hareruya2 Osu (晴れる屋2 大須店): Z’s Building 4F, Osu 4-11-5. Weekdays 12:00–21:00, weekends and holidays 10:00–21:00.

A third option sits by the main station: Card Labo Nagoya Ekimae, two minutes from the Taiko-dori exit of JR Nagoya Station, open Monday to Thursday 12:00–21:00, Friday 12:00–22:00, weekends and holidays 10:00–22:00. It is the late option for evening Shinkansen arrivals.

Fukuoka: Hakata for the Pokémon Center, Tenjin for shops

Fukuoka’s Pokémon Center closes an hour later than most regional centers, and a card shop shares its building.

Pokémon Center Fukuoka is on the 2nd floor of Hakata Marui, three minutes from the Hakata exit of JR Hakata Station, open 10:00–21:00 with a Pokémon Card Station inside. Five floors up, Card Labo Hakata Marui (カードラボ 博多マルイ店) is on 7F of the same building, open 10:00–21:00, and its page lists Pokémon packs and singles. That is the simplest sealed-plus-singles stop of any city here.

Tenjin, a short subway ride away, has two more:

• Card Labo Fukuoka Tenjin (カードラボ 福岡天神店): JMF Building Tenjin Nishidori 01, 2F, Tenjin 2-8-22, three minutes from Tenjin Station exit 3. Weekdays 11:00–20:00, weekends and holidays 10:00–20:00.
• Hareruya2 Fukuoka (晴れる屋2 福岡店): BPR Square Tenjin Daimyo 2F, Daimyo 2-1-53, Chuo-ku. Weekdays 12:00–21:00, weekends and holidays 10:00–21:00.

Sapporo, Sendai, Hiroshima and Yokohama

Each of these cities has one Pokémon Center near its main station, and all but Yokohama have at least one verified card shop.

• Sapporo: Pokémon Center Sapporo is on Daimaru Sapporo 8F, connected to JR Sapporo Station. Card Labo Sapporo (カードラボ 札幌店) is at Marudai Building 4F, Minami 2-jo Nishi 1-5, three minutes from Odori Station, open 12:00–21:00.
• Sendai: Pokémon Center Tohoku is on Sendai PARCO1 3F with a Card Station. Card Labo Sendai is on E BeanS 8F, two minutes from the west exit of JR Sendai Station (10:00–20:00), and Hareruya2 Sendai is at KOTOBUKI Building 3F South, Chuo 2-6-6 (weekdays 12:00–21:00, weekends 10:00–21:00).
• Hiroshima: Pokémon Center Hiroshima is on ekie 2F right next to the Shinkansen gate, with a Card Station, so it fits into a station transfer. Card Labo Hiroshima is in the Animate Building 3F, Otemachi 2-3-1, about five minutes from Kamiyacho-nishi tram stop (weekdays 11:00–20:00, weekends 10:00–20:00).
• Yokohama: Pokémon Center Yokohama is on Yokohama Sky Building 8F, open 10:30–20:30. Its notice says it handed out timed entry tickets on weekends and holidays through October 12, 2026, starting from 9:30.

Card Labo’s own branch pages also show that its regional shops run lotteries for new sets. Notices for 30th CELEBRATION lottery sales appear on the Nipponbashi, Namba, Avanti Kyoto, Nagoya Osu, Nagoya Ekimae, Fukuoka Tenjin, Hakata Marui, Sapporo and Hiroshima pages, so a card shop is not a way around the Pokémon Center lottery for a new release.

What we could not verify, and other options

We could not confirm Card Rush, Suruga-ya or Yellow Submarine branches in these cities, because their official store-list pages returned errors or were not reachable on October 11, 2026. The pop-up Pokémon Card Stores, which ran in malls including Shijonawate (Osaka) and Omuta (Fukuoka), closed on October 4, 2026, so none is operating as of this writing.

Hard Off and Book Off are found all over Japan and sell secondhand cards store by store; see Hard Off and Book Off for Pokémon cards for how those chains work.

Tax-free rules do not change by city: ¥5,000 or more before tax at one store on one day, with your physical passport. From November 1, 2026 you pay the full price and the tax is refunded after Customs checks at departure. The full rules are in buying Pokémon cards tax-free in Japan.