Hatsune Miku Opens Temporary Shop in Tokyo Airport

Pop diva Hatsune Miku debuts her real world Wing Shop at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo.

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The store is a limited endeavor at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo, and will close on March 31 of this year. There are two locations for the Hatsune Miku Wing Shop, including Terminal 1 of the domestic Airport and the International Terminal.

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You can find out more at the official Wing Shop website (it is in Japanese). 

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The store advertises that it will have various Hatsune Miku products, including several travel items as well as several limited edition products. 

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Another feature of the Hatsune Miku Wing Shop is a augmented reality Vita game known as Miku Miku Hockey that will be available for play in a special booth. 

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Hatsune Miku performed in a Paris, France vocaloid opera in November of 2013 in a show called "the End." 

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For fans, undoubtedly one of the bigger draws is a "life-size" statue of the 16-year-old pop icon. According to mikufan.com, this is the fourth 1:1 scale Miku statue to date. 

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Hatsune has performed several concerts, including one in July of 2011 at the Nokia Theater during the 2011 Anime Expo. 

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Despite the singers virtual nature, there is a wide variety of goods for sale in the Wing shop. 

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The Haneda airport gift shop, which is temporary, is named the "Miku Wing Shop." According to a Kotaku translation of the site: 

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 The name "Wing Shop" is actually a pun. In Japanese, Haneda is "羽田," with the character "hane" (羽) meaning "wing." You know, airplanes and all. 

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Sega video game star and virtual pop singer Hatsune Miku now has her own real world shop in the Haneda Airport in Tokyo. 

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Hatsune Miku, who stars in a line of Sega video games including Hatsune Miku: Project Diva and her own manga series, is a synthetic "vocaloid" singer portrayed as a 16 year old girl with turquoise pigtails. 

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