In the video games, Pokemon Centers are basically buildings where trainers take their injured Pokemon creatures to be healed after combat. The real-life store in Tokyo sells Pokemon merchandise on a total of two floors, with items ranging from collectible shirts to stuffed Pokemon plushies. Continue reading for a video tour and more information.

In November 2001, Nintendo opened a store called the Pokemon Center in New York, in New York’s Rockefeller Center, modeled after the two other Pokemon Center stores in Tokyo and Osaka and named after a staple of the videogame series.

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