Doraemon's 100% exhibition heads to Nagoya in 2027
The travelling 100% Doraemon & Friends show closed its Tokyo run with more than 300,000 visitors and will take over Nagoya PARCO and the Sakae district from late April 2027.
Japan is getting a second look at the biggest Doraemon exhibition ever assembled. The organisers of 100% Doraemon & Friends have confirmed Nagoya as the show's second Japanese host city, with a run planned from late April to late August 2027.
The Tokyo run closed with 300,000 visitors
The Tokyo edition opened in Ariake in March 2026 and closed on Wednesday 30 September, drawing more than 300,000 visitors across its run. The production committee announced the Nagoya dates on the same day the Tokyo venue shut its doors.
Nagoya's edition will spread beyond a single building. The committee says it will use Nagoya PARCO together with the surrounding Sakae district, in what it describes as a large-scale use of the area's streets and venues. Exact dates, ticket prices and the exhibition floor plan will be published later.
What visitors actually walk through
The show has already toured Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok and Taiwan, and it is built around scale. The centrepiece is a 12-metre Doraemon balloon, surrounded by more than 100 life-size figures of Doraemon, each with its own expression, pose and gadget. The Japanese run also introduced a Japan-only Doraemon design that has not appeared on the overseas legs.
The exhibition pulls together the manga, the television anime and the feature films into one space, which is why it can fill a city block rather than a gallery. Doraemon began as a Fujiko F. Fujio manga in 1970, moved to television on TV Asahi in April 1979, and is still running both. The 46th feature film is scheduled for a Japanese release on 5 March 2027.
Who is running it
The Nagoya show is produced by a committee made up of Nagoya TV (メ～テレ), Nagoya PARCO and TV Aichi Kikaku. The original 100% Doraemon & Friends committee, Fujiko Pro and the Hong Kong creative studio AllRightsReserved are listed as special collaborators. AllRightsReserved is best known for the KAWS:HOLIDAY installations, which is a fair signal of the kind of public-space sculpture the show leans on. J. Front Retailing is the official partner, with the Sakae shopping street associations and the Nagoya city federation of shopping streets lending support.
Our opinion
Nagoya is a sensible second stop rather than an ambitious one, and that is probably the right call. A touring show that depends on life-size figures and a 12-metre balloon needs floor space, footfall and a city willing to hand over streets, and Sakae can supply all three without the crush that made the Tokyo run a ticketing problem. The interesting question is whether Nagoya gets anything the Tokyo edition did not. Repeating the same 100 figures in a different city is an easy sell, but the Japan-only Doraemon design suggests the organisers know that collectors and families will want a reason to travel twice. If the Nagoya floor plan turns out to be a copy of Ariake, the tour starts to look like a queue rather than an exhibition.