Pokémon Company Announces First Permanent Store Outside Asia in London
After decades of delighting fans in Asia, Pokémon store heads to a new continent. It’s impossible to overstate how much of a pop cultural institution Pokémon is in Japan.
Original headline at SoraNews24: “Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia”
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- Location
- London
- Opening Year
- 2029
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