The Pokémon Company has shed more light on its upcoming "outdoor Pokémon attraction", PokéPark Kanto.
During today's Pokémon Presents, Chief Creative Fellow at TPC Junichi Masuda showed off aspects of the park (at least, the concept of it). The aim was to create a world where Pokémon actually exist. The park opens in 2026, with tickets going on sale later in 2025.
The park is split into two — a town area, and a forest area. The town itself is like every single little town you've seen in a Pokémon game, complete with a Mart, a Pokémon Center, and places where trainers can gather.
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Pokémon statues will be dotted all across the park in various locations, and they look extremely good — almost like they're real! Well, not quite, but they fit into the environments, anyway.
We'd love to take a visit, but that'll mean taking a trip to the Yomiuriland amusement park in Inagi, Tokyo next year. Better start saving those Poké Dollars!
Let us know what you think of PokéPark Kanto in the comments.
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My family does want to travel to Japan someday, so I'll defenitely bring this up when the time comes!
This looks really cool, but it is an interesting choice. I really hope people treat this nice though and not trash this.
I hear you can get in for free if you manage to glitch through the walls.
Maybe when I eventually go to Japan I'll try this for a day, but not really interested
It may look nice, but this is not something you should put in a presentation like this, imho. Give it its own presentation like they did with Super Nintendo World. Because this is something the vast majority of people will not be able to go to anyway, and thus is a waste of time to watch for a lot of people.
Of course at first I thought (and hoped) that it was a PokéPark game, but of course a real-life park is pretty cool, too - hope I'll be able to visit it myself along with the Nintendo Museum etc. when I'm finally able to go to Japan myself!
It's nice that although Kanto is the focus, they've got some non-Kantonian Pokémon in there.
The focus seems to be comparisons between regions, like different water type starter Pokémon, or how both the Diglett and Drilbur families are Mole Pokémon.
....did they REALLY have to call it PokePark though? 😭
Like it looks cute and I get why they named it that but man you can't tug on my heartstrings like this XD
@Fizza
The PokéPark Wii games were actually based on the pop-up PokéParks in Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9Park
That's why they specified that PokéPark Kanto was a new permanent park.
@Yosher I'm sure it will get its own presentation when it's ready to show off. I disagree that the 'vast majority' of people will be unable to go if they'd like to. Japan is a plane ride away!
I wonder...
They specified this was a Kanto park. Would we see a Galar or Unova park in their respective countries?
I like the idea of a theme attraction being an actual nature park as opposed to some man made monstrosity like a universal studios thing
Why can’t we get anything nice in the states. Give me a new pork city area at SNW
At first, I honestly thought this was gonna be a claymation-like PokèPark game that synced nicely with that section of the presentation, but I'm happy to be wrong. As a theme park fan, this looks really cool even if it's on the more chill side than what I typically prefer.
Hopefully if this is successful, they'll consider it for other real-world Pokemon region equivalents.
@Tyranexx You mention being a theme park fan. I have to ask, ever been to Efteling in the Netherlands? If not, you definitely should!!
@Daniel36 I haven't been. Just looked the park up, and it does look like a fun one! Some great rides, and I think I'd really enjoy the fantasy themes. I'll definitely consider visiting in the future. I appreciate the recommendation!
@Fizza I would also love a new poke park game since I enjoyed the first one. Never played the second one for the same reason I never played RTDL, because I was an idiot at the time.
@RupeeClock Huh the more you know!
@Tyranexx It is very much a fairy tale theme park. Quite a few things aren't even rides, just "experiences". Unfortunately they replaced my absolute fave, the haunted castle, and replaced it with something more action-packed, but I can't complain. Even most of the actual roller coasters have theme and background stories to them.
One piece of advice, make it at least a 2-day trip. The park is too big now for just one day. They also have a themed hotel and a bungalow park, but those are pretty expensive. Plenty hotels in the regiom though.
Oh, and there is a dedicated app that gives you directions and estimated wait times for all the rides. Prettty useful!
Thinking about it it’s amazing that we got several Super Nintendo World locations before a proper Pokémon theme park/addition. I know there was a temporary PokéPark eons ago but not the same thing as that was never planned to stick around.
@Daniel36 That all sounds down my alley for sure! Duly noted on the hotel options and the app; I definitely tend to shop around for rates and deals on trips and definitely take apps into account as well. Thanks for the bonus info!
@ParrakerriRush Well the Japanese won't trash their own park.
Having worked in tourism for years I could name some countries but I won't cause people will just feel attacked.
Yeah, I know the Japanese will keep it clean, but tourists could trash the place, so I would hate for that to happen.
“Please take your Trubbish home”
@Tyranexx If you ever need any additional info down the line, @ me and I will help you out. Tell you which rides are worth it and which are less, stuff like that. It's funny how Efteling is kind of a hidden gem, because it's famous in our country.
@Daniel36 Can do. Thanks again! Really like some of the ride POVs I'm finding.
@Tyranexx It's a pretty amazing park. And again, I find it quite baffling how not many people outside of the Netherlands know abaout it. I personally love how even the queues are part of many of the rides. The queue in the Flying Dutchman is basically an experience unto itself.
Anyhoo, enough hi-jacking this article.
@Daniel36 German here. We loved Efteling when we visited it with our son about 2 years ago.
@KeeperBvK it is a wonderful place, yes. It got too big though, not enough time in one day to visit everything.
@Daniel36 Actually we spent one day there, and we did everything we wanted to do.
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