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Bandai Namco Experience rolls out a new Cars prize lineup marking the movie's 20th anniversary, featuring a Super Large Lightning McQueen plush, character mascots, and a storage box, available from August 21, 2026 at Namco locations nationwide and online.
Starting September 2, 2026, Cheese Garden is releasing the seasonal Goyotei Japanese Chestnut Cheesecake — a baked cheesecake combining Japanese chestnut paste with the inner skin left on for a fragrant, elegant autumn flavor — available at all stores and online through late October.
CHOCOLATIER PALET D'OR launches a second Autumn Customize Parfait and a new Coffret Mariage chocolate box from September 4, 2026, combining house-made chocolate with seasonal chestnut, sweet potato, grape, and pear.
CONVERSE TOKYO is releasing its first collaboration with Puella Magi Madoka Magica on August 21, 2026, featuring a four-item lineup — including a T-shirt, an acrylic stand, and a HARIO Lampwork Factory necklace — built around new artwork of six characters by artist Samehoshi.
Dazaifu City and Nishi-Nippon Railroad have released the 2026 batch of "Dazaifu Plum Cider" on August 19, now in its 11th year. Made from plum syrup produced by Fukuoka Agricultural High School students using plums harvested at the Dazaifu Government Office Ruins, 40,000 bottles are going on sale across Fukuoka Prefecture, including two new retailers.
CosmicBreak Universal brings back its collaboration with MegaHouse's Desktop Army figure series from August 19 to October 7, 2026, offering Sylphie II for free, 25 types of exclusive enhancement parts, and a limited-time gacha featuring the Titania series.
A second collaboration between the mobile RPG Detariki Z: Special Defense Agency Daily Life and the game Sugar Conflict begins August 20, bringing new collaboration characters to limited-time gacha, a themed event, login bonuses, and serial code campaigns running through early September.
enBED, a private all-inclusive villa hosting just one group of up to two guests per day in the forest of Takashima's Kutsuki area, Shiga Prefecture, is set to open in November 2026, built around a sauna, a Shigaraki-ware bath, and dining designed for a trip centered on doing nothing. A pre-opening giveaway offering three free overnight stays is open for entries through August 31, 2026.
Interior lifestyle brand Francfranc launches its 2026 Autumn & Winter Collection "Design with Drama," featuring 1970s-inspired living room furniture, cushions, fabrics, fragrances, and more. Available at stores nationwide from August 21, 2026, and online from August 19.
Fukuroda Onsen Omoide Romankan in Daigo, Ibaraki Prefecture, is holding an "Apple Event" from October 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027, featuring its popular apple bath scented with local Okukuji apples along with an apple-themed welcome treat at check-in.
Bandai Namco Experience and Bandai Namco Amusement are opening the Gashapon Bandai Official Shop Central Cinema Sanko store, a 210-machine capsule toy specialty store, inside Central Cinema Sanko in Nakatsu City, Oita Prefecture, on Friday, August 21, 2026.
A Bandai-official Gashapon capsule toy specialty store with 280 capsule machine slots is opening inside the Zaza Chuokan shopping complex in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture on August 21, 2026, carrying the full lineup of Bandai's newest capsule toy products.