Pokemon Store at Narita airport

Back at the airport after visiting Narita, it was time to visit the Pokemon Store!

But before that, I spotted Hello Kitty. 

And approaching the Pokemon Store, there was a Pokemon wall!

too many people...I couldn't get a photo of the whole wall

luckily for me, the store was at my departure hall. See how the walls are decorated?

the entrance

a vending machine

I'm not sure whether the items from the vending machine are also found in the store. It seemed like there were similar key-chains on the shelves, but I didn't really check because I wasn't interested in pilot Pikachu.

plenty of pilots (it seems that every airport store has a different pilot uniform)

machines for decorating 100-yen coins, and selling Pokemon cards?

 After that, moving on to the main attraction!

so many Pokemon ♥

The above are the smaller ones...palm-sized. Here are the bigger ones, still not very big but at least not covered with a palm...

this photo is important because beside the Psyduck is my Eevee! Can you spot it?

Anyway, after that I picked up the Eevee and never let it go...because it was sooo fluffy, and I couldn't find another one like it. I didn't even know how much it cost because I couldn't find the price tag.

here I put Eevee down to take a photo with other fluffy friends who seem to be from the same category

Turns out that they are from the Kuta Kuta Tatta! series, which means "I'm exhausted!"

I found this after coming back home

In the photo above, you can actually see Umbreon's ear (and head, partially) behind Eevee. Later on, I found the price tag for Eevee beside Umbreon's (although Google Lens couldn't exactly translate Pokemon names into English, Eevee's name was phonetically decipherable :P ).

the "special" thing about this Eevee is that its limbs are mobile! ♥

Then these are bigger Pokemon...and these two Pikachu and Eevee are actually made of a special material called boa fabric.

There are also nice luggage tags and luggage straps, but I wouldn't buy them because I wouldn't want to get them scraped here and there.

cute mini padlocks!

I wasn't going to buy any of these, but I eventually bought a Pikachu padlock, because adding it would bring my purchase up to 5000 yen (excluding tax), which would qualify me for a tax-free purchase. The listed prices were including tax. At the counter, my two Pokemon (my Eevee and a sleeping Pichu for WW) cost 2640 yen each (2400 yen plus a tax of 240 yen). So the cashier told me that I added another few hundred yen (220 yen including tax), I could get them tax-free.

The cheaper items at around 300 yen were not interesting...there were pens and generally stationery that were not that cute. So I decided to grab a padlock instead! Since I didn't buy a plush Pikachu, I selected the Pikachu padlock. If I hadn't bought a plush Eevee, I would have opted for the Eevee padlock instead!

And here is a translated receipt...I wanted to post this because it is kinda funny. Google Lens sometimes translates things a bit differently depending on the zoom. In this full picture of the receipt, Eevee is a "worn out walnut", and my padlock became "Pikachu the Panda"! Hahaha... 

A closer zoom, and everything looks better...of course Eevee is still an exhausted stuffed toy (which is exactly what it says on its tag), but at least Pikachu is no longer a panda. :P 

And this last pic is just because I appreciate how they tell us to fold the printed side inwards when storing it. I've had receipts go blank because they weren't folded when stored!