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When you know you want a drink, but don\u2019t know which one, Kurand will be there to help<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Much like kawaii or isekai, gacha<\/strong> is one of those words that\u2019s become largely understood by fans of Japanese culture even if they don\u2019t speak Japanese. That\u2019s a handy linguistic development, because even if there are still a lot of times where \u201ccapsule toy\u201d works as a description, sometimes what the randomized capsule drop is awarding you is something other than a toy to play with.<\/p>\n For example, this month sake gacha machines are going to be installed in Tokyo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Set to open inside the Tobu Department Store<\/strong> next to downtown Tokyo\u2019s Ikebukuro Station<\/strong> is the Kurand Sake Gacha Popup Store<\/strong>, operated by online sake and spirits marketplace Kurand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re thinking that the small size of a gacha capsule means you\u2019re getting shortchanged on the quantity of your beverage, you can put your mind at ease. Instead of being filled with booze themselves, each capsule contains a voucher which you can then redeem on-site for the corresponding alcoholic beverage.<\/p>\n The random nature notwithstanding, this isn\u2019t an \u201canything is fine as long as it gets you drunk\u201d kind of promotion, either. The shop will have five different categories of alcoholic drinks<\/strong>, starting with one specifically for sake<\/strong>, one for fruit liquors and sweet-tasting alcoholic beverages<\/strong>, and one \u201comakase\u201d<\/strong> style with a variety of spirits in its lineup. There\u2019s also a mini-size sake<\/strong> gacha machine for smaller 300-milliliter (10.-1 ounce) bottles, and finally, there\u2019s the premium gacha<\/strong>, with such ultra luxurious possible prizes as Shinkyo, a rare 50-year-aged shochu that usually retails for 110,000 yen (US$743) a bottle and the 30-year-old sake Tenko, which at 55,000 yen a bottle<\/strong> is also very much a special-occasion drink.<\/p>\n Prices to play the gacha machine range from 1,000 yen for the mini bottle gacha to 5,000 yen for the premium, with the remaining three being 2,500 yen. Since that\u2019s a whole lot of 100-yen coins to have to feed into the machine, odds are that you\u2019ll instead pay a store staff member and receive a single token to use instead, like with one Japanese airline\u2019s onboard gacha machines<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Kurand Sake Gacha Popup Store will be open from August 21 to September 29<\/strong>. And if you\u2019re after more tasty randomization, don\u2019t forget about the gacha cake shop elsewhere in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related: Tobu Department Store Ikebukuro branch website<\/a><\/em> When you know you want a drink, but don\u2019t know which one, Kurand will be there to help. Much like kawaii or isekai, gacha is one of those words that\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/SG-2.jpg?w=640\")
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