New Otani Hotel in Hakata will, for the first time in western Japan’s history, offer two Sanrio collaboration rooms featuring Pompompurin. The rooms will open up for people to stay from March 1, 2024.
Sanrio posted a few pictures of the rooms on its website. There will be Pompompurin and his friends on all of the walls, on the sheets, and on the windows. Those who stay in the Pompompurin hotel rooms will also be able to take home exclusive merchandise. The names of the rooms are “Lots of Pompompurin Room” and “Inventing Cute in this Lab Room!”
Though March 1, 2024 is the first day you’ll be able to stay in the rooms, you can start making reservations from February 15, 2024. You can do so from the New Otani Hotel website, and this is the only method to do so. It’ll cost 35,000 JPY ($238.10) for one person and 50,000 JPY ($340.10) for two per night. This fee includes all of the various taxes and service fees, and will include breakfast.
For those who are curious about the various characters in the Pompompurin universe, Sanrio has set up a site introducing them all. The collective name for them is Teampurin. As for Pompompurin himself, he is a golden retriever that Sanrio introduced in 1996. He is fairly popular, to the point that he was in second place in Japan’s Sanrio popularity poll in 2022. He lost to Cinnamoroll, who is the reigning champion.
The New Otani Hotel in Hakata will open up pre-orders for its Pompompurin hotel rooms from February 15, 2024.
