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Introduction
Our proud Japanese Anime, ONE PIECE!
This is a full day tour to visit all the statues of Straw Hat Pirates that are situated across the northern 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 3 days no matter how well planned your itinerary is, which would cost you to pay for hotels, meals and most importantly your precious time. But I can take you to each of these, all of these statues in just a day. However, please be advised that this is going to be a long-distance driving tour that normally takes 10 hours or more.
On this tour, you got the chance to purchase their miniature figurines (as pictures shown below) for commemorating not only your visit to each statue, but also to the area where Mr Oda, the Mangaka (= Manga artist or cartoonist) of One Piece was born.
All these statues were built thanks to using part of Mr Oda’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.
NOTE: All the above statue-based figurines will allegedly be out of stock at least until Feb 2025
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!
Miniature Figurines’ Availablility
If you would really like to purchase ALL the One Piece figurines, you should avoid Mondays when Robin / Sanji / Chopper / Brook figurines are not available and Thursdays when Brook figurine is not available.
Standard Itinerary
(Mon – Thur in winter time)
07:30 Pick up from your hotel / JR Kumamoto station
08:30 Roronoa Zoro
09:40 Nico Robin
10:20 Usopp
11:10 Mt Aso
Grab something for Lunch at a convenience store
12:50 Franky
13:50 Nami
14:30 Sanji
15:00 Chopper
15:30 Luffy
16:20 Brook
17:00 Jinbe (We neet to get to Jinbe before sundown!)
17:45 Drop off at JR Uto station
Why drop-off is at this train station?
Collecting Booklets
Each of these booklets is available for free of charge only at each spot where the figurine is available. Let’s collect them all!!
(These booklets may run out of stock in the future)
Pricing
Basic charge 44,000 JPY + (7,000 * number of people) + 10% Consumption tax
Example: 63,800 JPY for 2 people