Non Non Biyori (hereby refer to as NNB) has always been one of my favorite show since I first watched it back 2-3 years ago. It’s also the first manga series I read and complete in Japanese and I own all the mangas so far (manga is still on-ongoing!).

I was super pumped upon hearing the news for the new movie, and it did not disappoint me. Also with the release of the movie came with several events such as a collab cafe and an exhibition.

Without further ado, I want to share my experience of both the exhibition and the cafe for NNB!

Keep in mind this is a time limited event, if you wish to attend, please keep in mind it won’t be there forever!

The Exhibition

The exhibition is held at the 5th floor of the Kadokawa Cinema located in Shinjuku.

Here is the google map location for it.

When we head up to the 5th floor, we are immediately greeted by the bus stop that appeared in the series! I really like the realistic touch of the worn out sign by the bus stop!

And these are the promotional posters/ key visuals for the movie!

Right by the left of the bus stop display, they have a counter selling drinks and tickets for the movies, sort of like a concession stand. And right across from the counter, we can see Hotaru’s room…., I mean huge display of Koma-chan’s and a Renge doll(s).

To the right of the photo above, we have the gold of the exhibition. They were displaying real life size figure of our 4 main girls!!!

I have actually seen the Renge life size figure at another event about 2 years back (same design), but the rest of them are new to me! They all look super detailed and delicately made. The sign says that it will go on sale sometime in the future, but it will probably cost a fortune considering other life size figures also costs a fortune as well.

Anyways I’m happy they all got a life size figure and it was super exciting to see them in the exhibition!

Here are the solo shots of each girl~!

The exhibition doesn’t end here! There is another room right to the left of the figures!

Entering the room, we can right away there is a huge piece of art hanging on the wall.

Looks a bit odd, but when you see the close up…

It’s made up of different key frames throughout the anime! Extremely impressed by this!!

We also have a blackboard which you are free to write on!

They also have displays of older posters! I believe this is from the first season~!

The voice actress of the main girls also carved these things which I assume is an event or something as the promotion for the movie.

This display shows all the blu-rays released so far as well as Okinawa goods (which is the place they went to in the movie.

If you see closely above, you can see this sketch from the display. It’s a sketch from a scene in the movie!

Then there is just one last thing in the display area:

This is like a plastic stand for the 4 girls in their vacation clothes! The Koma-chan at the top is a projected screen. I just happen to take this picture when Koma-chan is on the screen.

Close up on each girl:

That’s all for the exhibition! The exhibition ends on started on 8/25/2018 and ends on 9/30/2018. There is no entry fee so feel free to check it out if you are around Tokyo!

Here is the news page for the exhibition. If you plan to go, just use the google map I posted above and you should be able to find it without any problems!

The Collab Cafe

First off, I want to apologize beforehand that this collab cafe has already ended. I went a couple of weeks back but haven’t been able to find time to make a blog post until now! Sorry!

The cafe is just like any other collab cafe if you ever had a chance to go to one. Food items are character themed and usually expensive comparing to the average cost of food here.

However, the cafe is quite unique as you get to see lots of decorations centring around the theme. They usually also sell goods relating to the collab.

Here is their menu for the collaboration this time:

I wasn’t hungry at the time when I went, so instead of ordering the main food dish, I only ordered drinks. The first drink I ordered was the Hotaru theme drink. It was a strawberry milk.

I thought the drink itself was good, but certainly more expensive than drinks you find around Japan. I thought the ribbon on the straw was a nice touch to the drink~

The second drink I ordered was some sort of soda. This drink is special in the way that you have to have proof either via receipt/ movie ticket that you watched the new movie. After you show your proof you can then order this drink. Just purely off that factor alone I ordered this drink.

Honestly I had no idea what this drink was when I ordered it except that it’s a soda drink. It looked super cool though!

The white thing at the top is actually cotton candy! I wasn’t quite sure if I was suppose to dump it in the drink or not, so I tried for half of it… yeah I don’t think you were suppose to do that as the drink overflowed haha.

Unfortunately the cotton candy was the highlight of the drink. The soda itself barely had any taste and the blue jelly at the bottom didn’t taste that good either.

Oh, we also get a post card for every item we order on the collab menu. There are 5 types; one of each girl and one with all of them.

Before I finish off this post, I just want to share what the inside of the cafe looks like. Unfortunately due to the rules, I wasn’t allow to take pictures of any people thus some pictures may be a bit unclear.

There are also these chibi versions of the characters. These are the ones that I manage to take!

That’s it for this time! If you are interested in the site for the collab cafe, here it is. Keep in mind the collab cafe is already closed though!

Until next time~~

Salo