&TEAM's K Walks Kuromi's Shibuya Department Store Before It Opens
The preview visit puts an idol from a group with no tie to the venue's usual programming inside a Sanrio character event, and the quotes the event produced are about Kuromi's surprises rather than the pop group, which is how a limited-run Shibuya installation buys press before its November 1 close.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime Anime.
&TEAM member K visited "KUROMI'S MYSTERIOUS DEPARTMENT STORE" at MEDIA DEPARTMENT TOKYO in Shibuya on October 18, ahead of the public opening. The limited-time event tied to the World Kuromification Project runs until November 1, 2026. K toured secret passages and cosmetics-shop and boutique photo spots, met Kuromi in person, and said the two share a fondness for surprises and the same initial.
The venue is built around a department store stocked with Kuromi's dreams, and visitors move through it on a route that includes a secret passage where her silhouette appears. Two photo areas on the second floor are modeled on a cosmetics shop and a boutique, stocked with items such as the false eyelashes sold as SUPER LONG LONG LASHES and the hood color treatment HOOD COLOR MAGIC.
K named KUROMI'S SECRET PASSAGE and SURPRISE CALL as his favorite spots, and the phone in the latter talks back in what he called a cute way of speaking. Kuromi appeared to him as one of the event's surprises. The store sits inside MEDIA DEPARTMENT TOKYO and closes on November 1, 2026.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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