Kawagoe Maruhiro Santa – The real Santa Claus from Lapland (Finland) is visiting the kids section on the 6th floor “Enjoy Space 10” of Maruhiro in Kawagoe, on Friday December 13th. He will visit twice; once at 11 am and once at 2 pm. The information was released earlier thanRead More →
Information for the 2019 Santa Claus Visit at Kichijoji Station in Musashino. Brief update 2020: this post is getting a lot of traffic in 2020. I presume, like me, people want to know if there is a Santa visit this year. At the moment, it looks very unlikely. This yearRead More →
Sunshine City Christmas ~ an annual winter event at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. This is not a Santa greeting / visit, but you can see Santa every year in the Sunshine Aquarium from mid November. The event is currently scheduled to go ahead in spite of the pandemic. However,Read More →
The Ochanomizu Santa Claus Visit at St Clair has been cancelled in 2020 on account of the coronavirus. Official notification of cancellation here. The only places with a confirmed Santa Claus visit at the moment, is Hamley’s in Yokohama and LaQua in Tokyo Dome City. Ochanomizu Santa, Tokyo – WhetherRead More →
White clad Santa Ikspiari Christmas Town 2020 – this post was initially updated at the end of December 2019 before the pandemic began. In November 2020 Ikspiari confirmed there will be no Santa visit in 2020. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus outbreak there are only a handful of Santa visitsRead More →
Laqua Christmas and Santa Claus in 2020. Once again this year, 2020, Santa Claus is visiting LaQua in Tokyo Dome City on the Marunouchi, Namboku, Oedo, Mita Subway Lines and JR Chuo and Sobu Lines. And they will have various events for their seasonal Laqua Christmas celebration. Christmas Laqua 2020 The Christmas period inRead More →
Santa Kawagoe Toysrus – Until 2016 Kawagoe had two Toys R Us. One on route 254 beside Monolith Bouldering Gym, which was then called the Kawagoe Toys R Us. However, since it closed permanently in 2016, “Kawagoe” Toysrus branch now refers to the branch that was previously known as the “BabiesRead More →
Santa Tochigi Meet and Greets / Santa Photo / Santa Spots 2018 – I have saved the best for last! This is the 7th and final round up by prefecture of places you can get a Santa photo or meet / greet Santa in the Kanto Plain.Saitama | Tokyo |Read More →
Ibaraki Santa Meet and Greets 2018 – Places you can visit Santa Claus in Ibaraki in Winter 2018. Unfortunately, some places already had Santa visit earlier in December, such as Toys R Us in Tsukuba and Premium Outlets in Ami on the 9th. Ibaraki Santa 🎅Hitachi Naka Seaside Park Santa Claus isRead More →
Santa Seibu – Santa Claus will be in Seibu Pepe in Iruma on Sunday December 9th at 5 different times. Santa will be walking around the shopping center. If you find him you can approach him to get your photo taken with him. He will also be giving a smallRead More →