?FIXED GEARS & GASHAPON

Get lost with us as Geoff (@geoffbest) takes us on a journey around Osaka, Japan to find a Gacha shop. “Gashapon (ガシャポン), also called gachapon (ガチャポン), are a variety of vending machine-dispensed capsule toys popular in Japan and elsewhere. “Gashapon“ is onomatopoeic from the two sounds “gasha“ (or “gacha“) for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending machine, and “pon“ for the toy capsule landing in the collection tray. Popular gashapon manufacturers include Tomy, which uses the shortened term gacha (ガチャ,