Tetsujin 28 Statue in Kobe
Finally got around to piecing together and uploading my videos of our visit to the Testujin 28 (Gigantor) statue in Shin-Nigata, Kobe last December.
For those that don’t know, Testujin 28 (or Gigantor as he’s known in the west) is a very long running anime (cartoon) in Japan.
Following on from the Gundam statue in Tokyo, there’s been a spate of these giant anime/pop culture related statues cropping up recently to boost the local economies.
This is Kobe’s…
Tetsujin 28
This is him at night.
Tetsujin 28
Just next to the statue is a small mall and on the first floor (second floor if you’re Japanese/American) is a cool little souvenir/toy shop selling retro Tetsujin 28 goods and other Japanese pop culture stuff like Godzilla toys, etc. Worth checking out if you’re into that sort of thing – and odds on you won’t have come to see the statue if you weren’t!
Tetsujin outside the Shop
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February 27th, 2010 in
Japan, Japanese Culture, Japanese TV, Kobe, Odds and Ends | tags: Anime, manga, Otaku, Tetsujin
