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Japan’s newest anime figure crane game prize may also be the world’s weirdest hanger [Photos]
- Casey Baseel
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There are two reasons this figure is posed that way.
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This awesome Japanese arcade chain has crane game coaches to help you win prizes
- Casey Baseel
Aug 11, 2026
Our crane game novice heads to Benex for a training day with the Assist Crew.
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Shizuoka police inspector punished for playing crane games on duty
- Master Blaster
Jul 14, 2026
To serve and get plush toys.
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Japanese convenience store Family Mart adding crane games to thousands of branches
- Casey Baseel
Dec 20, 2025
Crane games are big hits with foreign tourists and Japanese kids, so Family Mart is happy to have them come in and play.
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I had no idea you could win crane game prizes in Japan the way my friend won this Dragon Quest Slime
- Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2025
This black Slime plushie had become his white whale until something I’d never experienced before happened.
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Maker of Japan’s first crane machine is looking for a working model, offering 100,000-yen reward
- Casey Baseel
Nov 12, 2025
Taito is also giving away free games to fans with personal memories of the Crown 602.
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Crane games in Japanese convenience stores getting more and more popular, especially with tourists
- Casey Baseel
Aug 14, 2025
Popularity with customers, including foreign tourists, leads to chain hitting crane game target months ahead of schedule.
Toy guns won from crane games all over Japan could be used as real guns, warn police
- Master Blaster
Jul 19, 2025
Good thing those machines are really hard to win at.
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Japanese arcades now have crane games where you can win sweet potatoes then roast them in-store
- Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2024
Will sweet potatoes won taste twice as sweet as sweet potatoes earned?
- Japan
- (Arcades • cool • crane games • crazy • food • sweet potatoes • UFO catchers • weird • yaki imo • yakiimo)
JoJo’s bizarre merch – An anime plushie that you wear on your face!【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2024
Now you too can be like Dio by sticking a Stone Mask on your face.
- Japan
- (anime • Banpresto • crane games • crazy • funny • Jojo's bizarre adventure • manga • plushies • weird)
Pokémon Exciting Vacation Campaign in Namco kicks off just in time for summer vacation in Japan
- Krista Rogers
Jul 22, 2024
Crane games guarantee you’ll win a Poké-exclusive item in the Namco Lottery.
- Japan
- (Arcades • claw machine • COK • crane game • crane games • Lapras • Namco • plushies • Pokemon • Staryu • UFO catchers)
We beat two crane games at a Japanese arcade and take home two lucky bags
- Oona McGee
Aug 28, 2023
Check out our UFO Catcher haul!
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Giant 1,431-square meter arcade and bar opening in downtown Tokyo from Bandai Namco
- Casey Baseel
Mar 17, 2023
Namco Tokyo pours drinks, serves Pacman parfaits, and plays game music into the night in Shinjuku.
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- (alcohol • Arcades • Bandai • Bandai Namco • bars • crane games • drinks • game centers • Kabukicho • Namco • Namco Tokyo • Pacman • parfaits • shinjuku • sweets • video games)
Akihabara arcades aren’t dead yet! New six-floor game center opens in Tokyo otaku quarter next month
- Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2023
Namco steps in with its first-ever Akihabara arcade.
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- (Akihabara • Bandai • capsule toys • COK • crane games • gachapon • game centers • gashapon • Namco • video games)
Japanese arcade lets you win Kobe beef and “Japan’s number-one beef stew”【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2023
Three of the most prized wagyu varieties are waiting inside this crane game.
- Japan
- (Arcades • beef • beef stew • COK • cool • crane games • food • game centers • Kobe beef • SNJO • taste test • UFO catcher • Wagyu • weird)
Cloud Catcher is a real Japanese crane game with real prizes that you play through your phone
- SoraNews24
Nov 19, 2022
Prizes of both the anime and edible varieties can be yours even if you can’t make it to the arcade.
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A visit to the best UFO catcher arcade in the universe!
- Oona McGee
Nov 12, 2022
A maze of around 450 weird and wonderful claw machines filled with amazing treasures.
- Japan
- (amusement arcades • Arcades • claw machine • COK • crane games • game centers • game centres • Japan travel • Saitama • SNJO • travel • UFO catchers)
Bandai Namco is opening a chain of gigantic megastores for mega otaku joy
- Casey Baseel
Jun 11, 2022
Branches open this summer in Yokohama and Fukuoka.
- Japan
- (anime • Bandai • Bandai Namco • capsule toys • crane games • figures • gachapon • Namco • plastic models)
Can monkeys win at Japanese crane games? Experiment attempts to find out【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2022
Sure, we humans are regular failures versus UFO catchers, but what about our primate cousins?
- Japan
- (animals • crane games • experiment • monkeys • Nagasaki Bio Park • UFO catchers • video • zoos)
Crazy shiitake crane game out lets you win mushrooms by winning mushrooms that aren’t mushrooms
- Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2021
A UFO catcher that goes beyond plushies and figures.
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