{"id":2699,"date":"2025-10-24T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:00:28","slug":"permanent-sailor-moon-stage-show-theater-announced-for-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Sailor Moon stage show theater announced for Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715739\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/sm-0.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Promises to be accessible to domestic and international Sailor Moon fans<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given the franchise\u2019s now generations-spanning popularity with fans both in Japan and overseas, a<strong> Sailor Moon<\/strong>-themed restaurant seems like it should be a slam-dunk success, especially with daily stage shows featuring the Sailor Senshi performing live for audiences. And so it was that <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2019\/07\/18\/permanent-sailor-moon-restaurant-opening-in-tokyo-with-live-stage-shows-every-day\/\"><strong>Shining Moon Tokyo<\/strong> opened in an atmosphere of great excitement in Tokyo\u2019s Azabu Juban neighborhood<\/a>. There was no way that such a promising venture could fail, short of some sort of global catastrophe that not only took going out for entertainment and leisure traveling completely off the table, but did so for so long that no one could say when things would return to normal, but such a far-fetched scenario seemed laughably unlikely when the restaurant opened\u2026in August of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few months the coronavirus pandemic would begin, and by early 2020 it had made its way to Japan. While mandated restaurant closures didn\u2019t take place in Tokyo, Shining Moon Tokyo was also a stage theater, and those venues were ordered to shut down. Shining Moon Tokyo had its final visitors in April of that year, and in July, still without the OK to reopen, made the difficult decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2020\/07\/21\/moon-prism-power-ineffective-against-coronavirus-as-tokyo-permanent-sailor-moon-restaurant-closes\/\">close down permanently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine a clearer case of an enterprise failing not because of any flaws in its concept, but simply because of bad timing regarding utterly unforeseeable events. So with pandemic protocols now a thing of the past and inbound international tourism to Japan booming, Shining Moon Tokyo isn\u2019t just reopening, it\u2019s coming back bigger than ever, with the announcement of the grand opening of the <strong>Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Shining Theater Shinagawa Tokyo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715737\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/sm-2.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The theater will be a renovation and rebranding of the <strong>Club eX<\/strong> venue within Tokyo\u2019s <strong>Shinagawa Prince Hotel<\/strong> complex, located just a short walk from Shinagawa Station (which is located on both the Yamanote loop line that circles the Tokyo city center and the Tokkaido Shinkansen line that connects Tokyo with Kyoto and Osaka). The producers are promising <strong>a \u201cspectacular\u201d show featuring all 10 Sailor Senshi<\/strong>, and while the switch to a more dedicated theater format appears to mean that full meals won\u2019t be offered, <strong>special Sailor Moon-themed drinks<\/strong> will be served.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Early concept images for the theater\u2019s interior<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715738\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/sm-3.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As many overseas fans of Japanese pop culture are painfully aware, it can be difficult for non-residents of Japan to get tickets for entertainment events in Japan. Some require an in-Japan address or phone number, and others only accept payment through Japanese credit cards or have stipulations that the purchaser\u2019s name must match that of the ticketholder, preventing proxy purchases. However, the Sailor Moon theater intends to be traveler-accessible, with its website saying that<strong> tickets \u201cwill be available not only for domestic audiences but also for international tourists.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Shining Theater Tokyo is scheduled to open in <strong>April of 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000556.000021564.html\">PR Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/prettyguardiansailormoon-stst.com\/\">Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Shining Theater Tokyo official website<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Top image: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Shining Theater Tokyo official website<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Insert images: PR Times, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Shining Theater Tokyo official website<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u25cf Want to hear about SoraNews24\u2019s latest articles as soon as they\u2019re published? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RocketNews24En\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketNews24En\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promises to be accessible to domestic and international Sailor Moon fans. Given the franchise\u2019s now generations-spanning popularity with fans both in Japan and overseas, a Sailor Moon-themed restaurant seems like&hellip;<\/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-2699","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\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}