
The dish itself wasn’t really all that great. He looked so solid, I thought he was made of white chocolate. On top was his friend Muffin, which is actually sour cream. I could not get over how adorable the Pompompurin-shaped rice was. We chose this one because it looked like the cutest entree on the menu. The menu features entrees, drinks and desserts–all with the pompompurin character somehow incorporated. Inside, you’ll find pictures on the walls, shelves of souvenirs, and several oversized Pompompurins to take photos with. The exterior of the cafe looks very much like as if you were about to enter his house. He’s most often seen with the hamster, Muffin. He wears a beret, loves eating pudding and has several good friends including a mouse, hamster and bird. Pompompurin is a golden retriever dog that is part of the Sanrio family. Given my obsession with Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters, I had to visit a few of the cafes on my trip. Mr.One of the things Japan is known for is their character themed cafes, where the entire cafe is centered around a cute and popular character.Studio Ghibli’s new desktop Howl’s Moving Castle will take your stationery on an adventure 16 views.Want to hear about SoraNews24’s latest articles as soon as they’re published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!.The video is too adorable not to stop and watch, so if you find yourself on the east side of Shinjuku Station, you’ll definitely want to check it out! The ad is partially in celebration of Pompompurin’s birthday on April 16, and partially in support of Pompompurin’s bid in Sanrio’s annual character popularity poll, which opens for voting on April 8. “Thanks for showing us your butt so many times! So cute!” “Wow, the most cutting-edge Pom! So cute! Fantastic!” The video proved highly popular among Japanese netizens, who have liked and retweeted the video nearly 200,000 times with comments such as: Pompompurin turns around, says, “Look! Look!”, and does a backflip where he lands on his belly, and we’re left with a glorious 3-D view of his adorably round butt and his trademark asterisk-shaped…you know. Nice to meet you!”–nearly losing his beret in the process–and gives the viewer a little wink. As he collects himself, he says, “I’m a dog, but I’m here!” (the trademark hashtag of the video). He then bows in greeting as he says, “I’m Purin. Getting through the hole is a bit of a struggle, but he makes it out along with a few little bubbles that have characters on them that spell “Pompompurin”, though his efforts almost cause him to fall off the edge, butt-first. In it, Pompompurin’s fat little butt appears through a hole in the ceiling of a yellow room. His new 3-D video is currently playing on the Cross Shinjuku Vision billboard now until April 10, though it first appeared on Pompompurin’s offical Twitter ( on March 27.

The golden retriever with his trademark beret and round butt is here to make your visit to Shinjuku a little cuter. Naturally, it even has a mascot: a giant 3-D cat!īut the latest talk of the town is not the Cross Shinjuku Cat but a different animal altogether… Sanrio’s cute little yellow dog, Pompompurin!


The ad space, which spans three stories of the Cross Shinjuku building outside the East Exit, has recently received international attention for the amazing Nike Air Max Sneakers ad that it ran last Saturday, but the billboard has been around for a while now and has advertised all kinds of things. Shinjuku’s got a new famous landmark, and that’s Cross Shinjuku Vision, a digital, 3-D billboard right outside of Shinjuku Station. The Sanrio character is the latest star of Cross Shinjuku Vision!
