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Introduction
Our proud Japanese Anime, ONE PIECE!
This is a full day tour to visit all the 10 statues of Straw Hat Pirates / Mugiwara Kaizokudan that are situated across the north part of Kumamoto Prefecture, or any of them that you would like to visit.
If you try to visit all these statues using public transport, it would take at least 3 days no matter how well planned your itinerary is, which would cost you more than hiring me to pay for hotels, travels, meals and most importantly your precious time. But I can take you to each of these, all of the statues in just a day. However, please be advised that this is going to be a long-distance driving tour that normally takes 9 hours or more.
On this tour, you get the chance to purchase their miniature figurines (as the pictures shown below) for commemorating not only your visit to each statue, but also to the area where Oda sensei, the Mangaka (= Manga author or cartoonist) of One Piece, was born and raised.
All these statues were built thanks to using part of Oda Sensei’s kind donation (800 million JPY! ≒ 5.5 million USD) that he made for those who had sustained enormous damages from a series of strong earthquakes that had hit Kumamoto throughout the year of 2016. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these figurines will be donated to the victims of the past earthquakes.
Standard Itinerary
Pricing
Base charge 50,000 JPY + (8,000 * number of people)
Example: 66,000 JPY for 2 people
Almost the same cost as the standard taxi fare!
Tour Availablity
Miniature Figurines’ Availablility
If you would really like to purchase ALL the One Piece figurines, maybe you should avoid Mondays when Robin / Sanji / Chopper / Brook figurines are not available and Thursdays when Brook figurine is not available.
However, I could buy those figurines for you in advance. Please feel free to ask me!
2,200 JPY / Each figurine below
The new version of One Piece miniature figurines below are available at 2,640 JPY exclusively at each statue for 9 of them, but at 3,850 JPY for Luffy.
Besides, it includes a bit of sightseeing to the magnificent volcano Mt. Aso, a symbol of Kumamoto that gives us the nickname “Land of fire”, on the way to Franky. Hope the weather will be good enough to view its magnificent landscape!
Ride on Sunny-Go Train
You can also take a ride on “Sunny-Go” train as part of this tour between Robin and Franky from Fri – Sun after 14 Mar 2025 for 490 JPY per person!
Why drop-off is at this train station? That’s all because of heavy traffic between Jinbe (Uto) and Kumamoto city. The train ride from JR Uto will take you straight back to JR Kumamoto station in only 16 min.
Collecting Booklets
Each of these booklets is available for free of charge only at each spot where the figurine is availablfranky. Let’s collect them all!!
(Currently, Chopper / Zoro / Franky / Robin booklets are out of stock as of 4 August 2025. The rest of the booklets may run out of stock in the future as well.)
Recommended hotels for this tour
| The Blossom Hotel Kumamoto | |
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| One Station Hotel Kumamoto | |
| Route Inn Kumamoto Ekimae | |
| Toyoko Inn Kumamoto Ekimae |
How to Contact Me
Please contact me with the following information
- Your First name & Surname
- Number of people in your group
- Tour date
- Pickup location (e.g. Your hotel / JR Kumamoto station)
