{"id":960,"date":"2018-10-26T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:13:58","slug":"mascots-at-the-tourism-expo-japan-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/26\/mascots-at-the-tourism-expo-japan-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascots at the Tourism Expo Japan 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I attended the “Tourism Expo Japan 2018” in Tokyo Big Sight, a huge aircraft hangar-sized event space in Odaiba, Tokyo. There were displays, installations, and performances from tourist destinations around Japan and the rest of the world, but I went to the travel-themed convention in the hope of catching some regional mascots there. I wasn’t disappointed\u2014<\/span>there were seemingly hundreds of them, from all corners of the country (and a handful of international ones). This was an excellent opportunity to see some obscure mascots who rarely visit Tokyo. Here are some photos:<\/p>\n

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Sugarabu-chan the sugar fairy is the mascot of the online shop, Konpeitouyasan.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Momocchi and Uracchi are mascots from Okayama<\/p><\/div>\n

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Toripy, the pear\/bird mascot of Tottori, meets Mayumaro, the 2000-year-old silkworm cocoon mascot of Kyoto.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kuedon and Wakapan are mascots from Wakayama Prefecture.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tsuntsun the dog and Guribu the pig (mascots from Kagoshima, Japan) are good dancers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ieyasu-kun and Naotora-chan are from Hamamatsu City.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kyun-chan, a Japanese pika in a deer costume, is Hokkaido\u2019s tourism mascot. IburiOne Jr. is a dog mascot from Iburishichou, also in Hokkaido<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kumamon, the hardest working mascot in Japan!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tacchan (from Ie village, Okinawa) is a bird with peanut pants and a mountain hat.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kiko-chan the red bull is the mascot of Kikonai, Hokkaido.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ndacchi is the mascot of Akita, Japan.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Domo-kun, the long-serving mascot of the national broadcaster, NHK.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kazumo-chan, the mascot of Rumoi, Hokkaido, is a piece of herring roe.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Shikoku Railway Company mascots are Smile Eki-chan and Reccha-kun.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kita No Pe-chin is the mascot of Kitanakagusuku village in Okinawa.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ndanyan is the mascot of Shinjo City.<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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Last month I attended the “Tourism Expo Japan 2018” in Tokyo Big Sight, a huge aircraft hangar-sized event space in Odaiba, Tokyo. There were displays, installations, and performances from tourist destinations around Japan and the rest of the world, but I went to the travel-themed convention in the hope of catching some regional mascots there. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,2,39],"tags":[4,5,46],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-kumamon","category-mascots","category-tokyo","tag-japan","tag-mascots","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}