Summer Character Restaurant Fair 2026 at Sunshine City
Sunshine City's Summer Character Restaurant Fair 2026 runs from July 17 to August 24, 2026, across the restaurants inside the Ikebukuro complex. The promotion links two of the venue's biggest summer exhibitions, the Ultra Heroes EXPO and the Detective Precure Festival, into a single dining campaign with character sticker giveaways.
For every order of a designated fair menu item, diners receive one free sticker, either an Ultra Heroes sticker or a Detective Precure sticker. There are five designs in each set, for 10 total, and the design you receive is random and cannot be chosen. The stickers are distributed per order, not per person, so ordering two qualifying items at the same table gets you two stickers.
How the fair works across the restaurants
The fair spans multiple restaurants inside Sunshine City, including the Alpa and Alta dining floors and the Sky Restaurants on the 58th to 60th floors of the Sunshine 60 building. Each participating restaurant has its own designated menu items for the sticker giveaway, and the full list of items was published on the Sunshine City website on July 17. The specific dishes vary by restaurant, ranging from set meals to desserts and drinks, so the fair is less about a single themed menu and more about a building-wide sticker collection game tied to the summer anime events.
Stickers run out per restaurant and per day, so popular character designs go early on busy days. The promotion runs for 39 days, overlapping with both the Ultra Heroes EXPO (July 18 to August 24) and the Detective Precure Festival (July 31 to August 23). If you are visiting either exhibition, you can combine the show with a meal and collect the matching stickers without making a separate trip.
Pairing with the summer exhibitions
The Ultra Heroes EXPO runs in Exhibition Hall B on the 4th floor of the Bunka Kaikan building, with timed-entry live stage shows and a merchandise area. The Detective Precure Festival runs in Exhibition Hall A on the 4th floor of the World Import Mart building, with an interactive mystery-solving format. Both events target families with children, and the restaurant fair gives parents a reason to stay in the complex for a meal between or after the shows.
Because the sticker designs are split across two properties, completing a set of five requires eating at restaurants that stock the character you want. Staff cannot tell you in advance which restaurants carry which sticker sets, so the practical approach is to ask at the restaurant counter before ordering, or to visit the restaurant's listing on the Sunshine City site where the affiliated character is shown.
For families planning a full day around the fair, the strategy is to combine a morning exhibition visit with a lunch or early dinner at a participating restaurant. The Ultra Heroes EXPO opens at 9:30 and the Detective Precure Festival at 9:00, so both can be done in the morning if you arrive early. Lunch at a Sky Restaurant on the 58th to 60th floors of Sunshine 60 gives you a view along with the sticker, and the Sky Restaurants tend to be less crowded than the Alpa and Alta dining floors at lunchtime. If you are visiting on a busy weekend, reserving a table through the Sunshine City website in advance avoids the sticker lottery frustration entirely.
Practical Details
- Dates: July 17 to August 24, 2026
- Time: During each restaurant's regular hours (typically 11:00 to 21:00 or 22:00)
- Venue: Participating restaurants across Sunshine City, 3-1 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo
- Nearest station: Higashi-Ikebukuro Station (Yurakucho Line), 3 min walk; JR Ikebukuro Station, 8 min walk
- Price: Free with purchase of a designated menu item (menu prices vary by restaurant)
- Website: sunshinecity.jp/campaign