Do you like Japanese animation and cartoon? If you plan to be in Japan, you may find this article quite useful!

This article, we explain what Detective Conan, one of the most famous animation/cartoon characters from Japan, is, its creator and the Detective Conan cafe.

Detective Conan is a name of fictional detective whose real name is Shinichi Kudo. Shinichi, a high school boy, got poisoned by the "black organization" to be a primary school kid. Since then Shinichi uses "Conan" as his name to hide his identity. He has a kind of girl friend Ran Mouri.

The name comes from the author of  Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle.

Detective Conan was created by a cartoonist (manga-ka) called " Gosho Aoyama ".

He was born in Tottori on 21 June, 1963. In 2005 he is married to the voice actor of Mimami Takayama who did the voice of the main characters of Conan (Conan Edogawa) and YAIBA (Yaiba Kurogane) and  (voice of Kiki, Kiki's delivery by Hayao Miyazaki). But they divorced in 2007.

When he created the Detective Conan in 1994, he did not think the series would last longer than 3 months. The series has turned out to be so popular and still continue in 2017 (as of this article).

Something you may not know is that before becoming famous, he once participated Takeshi's castle.

In Tottori prefecture, you find the museum of the creator, Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory ( Aoyama Gosho Furusato-kan/ 青山剛昌ふるさと館 in Japanese. Conan Museum is a nickname, not official name ).

You learn the work history of Gosho Aoyama etc. there. 

Click here to go to its Official website 

Open hour：April- Oct 9:30AM-17:30 Nov-March 9:30AM - 17:00

Closed：Basically always open

Fee: adult 700 JPY

Jr. high and high school student 500 JPY

Primary school student 300 JPY

kids befoe the primary school is free

How to get there? Get JR Yura station and take a taxi for 7 mins or walk for 20 mins.

NOTE: It shall be a quite a travel (5-6 hours from Tokyo by train or 4-5 hours flight). We recommend you to go there when you travel to Osaka or Kyoto etc. (western Japan trip).

Source: official cafe website

Above is the example of Detective Conan cafe menu 

Anime themed cafe is not strange to Japan. We featured several in this article too. This time, Detective Conan cafe opened on 30 March and till 31 May, 2017 (note the date depending on cafe).

We can say this time the extent to which the cafe reaches is quite big. We mean that many cafes open all over Japan from Hokkaido north island to Kyusu west island (except for Okinawa, the tropical island). 

Food are around 1000-2000 JPY per meal.

You better reserve your seat in case, it gets so crowded. You need to book online at least 3 days before the day of visit. Some cafes do not accept reservation. Basically you can book 4 people max at once. The online booking website is all in Japanese. Please use google translate and be careful not to make mistake!

Tokyo area:

Harajuku 

Open: March 30 - May 31, 2017

Address: Harajuku Box, 2nd floor of  Lucessimo, 4 Chome-28-28 Jingūmae, Shibuya-ku, Tōkyō-to 150-0001

How to get there? 10 min walk from Harajuku station

Note: you can stay for 80 mins and leave.

Book from here!

Omotesando

Open: March 30 - May 7, 2017

Address: Omohara Station, 3rd floor Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku 4-30-3 Jingūmae, Shibuya-ku, Tōkyō-to 150-0001

How to get there? 4 min walk from Harajuku station

Note: No reservation possible

You can stay at the cafe for one hour and leave!

Hokkaido

Open: April 5 - May 7, 2017

Address: Lily Cafe, 6-1-4 Minami 1 jo nishi, Chuoku, Sapporo, Hokkaido

How to get there? 2 min walk from Subway Nanboku line Odori station

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 80 mins and leave!

Book from here!

Yamagata

Open: April 13 - May 14, 2017

Address: Cafe inside Yamagata Grand Hotel, 1-7-41 Honcho, Yamagatashi, Yamagata 

How to get there? 15 min by car from Yamagata station 

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Note: You can stay at the cafe for 80 mins and leave!

You can book from here!

For the great deal, you can also book and stay at this hotel from here (yet, you need to book the cafe separately)!

Saitama

Open: April 7 - May 7, 2017

Address: BOX CAFE&SPACE 1st floor, AEON lake town Kaze, 4-2-2 Lake town, Koshigayashi

How to get there? 3 min walk from No. 1 exit of Koshigaya lake town station  

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 60 mins and leave!

Note: you can not reserve this location.

Nagoya

Open: March 31 - May 14, 2017

Address: Amelie Cafe, B1 floor of hotel, 5-1-7 Sakae, Nakaku, Nagoya

How to get there? 3 min walk from Sakae station

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 80 mins and leave!

Book from here!

Kyoto

Open: March 30 - May 14, 2017

Address: Boogaloo cafe Sanjo Kiyamachi branch, 1st floor, 280 Minamikurumayachō, Nakagyō-ku, Kyōto-shi, Kyoto

How to get there? 5 min walk from Kawaramachi station, Shijo station, Sanjo station

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 80 mins and leave!

Book from here!

Osaka

Open: March 31 - May 14, 2017

Address: Five Minami Horie, 1st floor, Re-008 building, 1-16-11 Minamihorie, Nishiku, Osaka

How to get there? 6 min walk from No. 6 exit of Yotsubashi station

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 80 mins and leave!

Book from here!

Hiroshima

Open: April 1 - May 7, 2017

Address: Caccinu (カッチ―ヌ),10th floor of Sogo Hiroshima, 6-27 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima-shi

How to get there? 1 min walk from Kamiyamachi Nishi station or 2 min walk from Genbaku Dome mae station 

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 80 mins and leave!

Book from here!

Fukui

Open: Apri 14 - May 14, 2017

Address: Casa Grande Seibu Fukui branch, 8th floor, 1−8−1 Chuo, Fukui Fukui Prefecture

How to get there? 5 min walk from Fukui station

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 70 mins and leave!

Book from here!

Fukuoka

Open: April 7 - May 7, 2017

Address: Hona Cafe Tenjin Imaizumi, 1-13-11 Imaizumi, Chuoku, Fukuoka

How to get there? 15 min walk from Tenjin station OR 3 min walk from Tenjin Minami station

Note: You can stay at the cafe for 80 mins and leave!

Book from here!

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