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017 Archivesever-enduring franchise of your childhood, Pokémon, is going into the food business.

A Pokémon Cafe is opening up in Tokyo, Japan at the Takashimaya store in Nihonbashi, and it'll be the company's first permanent restaurant.

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Set to open in March 2018, the new café follows up from temporary pop-ups organised by The Pokémon Company.

The last pop-up was in 2015, and was inside a Shibuya Parco department store. Singapore also had a temporary café which opened in 2016.

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Officially called Pokémon Center Tokyo DX, it will feature themed food and drink, as well as a gift shop stocked with items only available at that location.

As visitors to the country might already know, Japan already has a handful of Pokémon Center Mega stores, which has all the Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Slowpoke, etc merchandise you'll ever need in your life.

Take us there already, please?

[h/t Kotaku]

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