Yay, they’re both finally here: the Yamanote Line Rilakkumas!
Wow, a double Rilakkuma set!
The backs of their shirts match!
Their hats are slightly different: the station master’s is red/gold with a bear, and the fan’s in black/gold with an “R”!
The Yamanote stationmaster Rilakkuma’s ID badge says “駅長リラックマ” (Stationmaster Rilakkuma) with a little gold bear icon! His outfit also has cute bear-shaped buttons with an R lapel pin design!
The stationmaster also has a super cute cross-body bag!
The Yamanote fan’s shirt looks like the front of the train with the Rilakkuma crew inside, and has a “50” (for the Yamanote green line’s 50th anniversary) as well as “山手線 Yamanote Line” printed on it!
Yamanote fan Rilakkuma also comes with this suave camera with a little Rilakkuma detail in the corner! Also, I’m so impressed that they even added a little flash lamp detail on the camera, too!
These two bears were part of this big collaboration between the JR Yamanote Green Line and Rilakkuma back in early August. It was a perfect collaboration because the Yamanote Green Line was celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and Rilakkuma’s celebrating his 10th!
In addition to this great plushie pair release, the Yamanote Line itself became Rilakkuma-themed! While I didn’t get to ride the Yamanote Line while this collaboration was happening, San-X did take some pretty great photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
The Yamanote Line holds a special place in my heart because I rode it so often with my family during my short visit to Tokyo this past summer. Our hotel was close to Tokyo Station, and we took the Yamanote Line to Kanda to get the Pizza Hut x Rilakkuma collab products as well as to Harajuku to visit their Rilakkuma Store!! So these two plushies are sort of like my very belated souvenirs hahaha
The Yamanote Line basically goes in this huge circle around Tokyo, with stops at a bunch of the major city centers! One of the stops, Tokyo Station, actually has a Rilakkuma Store in the terminal!
Getting both of these bears was such an awesome team effort: Ariel (Rilakkuma Desu) helped me get the Yamanote fan Rilakkuma from Tokyo (right on the Yamanote line!), and Liemzie (Tea Two Sugars Please) helped me get the Yamanote stationmaster from Umeda! A gigantic thank you to both of them – be sure to check out their blogs!
In other news, I still have more exciting Rilakkuma stuff to photograph and post (I seem to have a constant backlog haha), but you know, slow and steady with that because I’ve got medical biochemistry on my plate right now too haha.
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They’re so cute, easily one of my favorite series. So much detail in their costumes I love it. Glad you could get them both~ Ha ha finding the Yamanote Rilakkuma train was hard I couldn’t even find it. They did one train a day at a random hour >.< pretty sneaky. It is always nice to have backlog since the news is slow most of the time.
Only one train a day? Aww that’s too bad, I was hoping the whole line would be decked out in Rilakkuma for this haha that’s so sneaky of them to only have 1. Thanks so much again, I love the bears so much <3
My favorite rilakkuma as well!
Yes, they are such cute bears!! It’s so hard for me to pick a favorite though.
Great post Faith and the details are so very well described too!! Yes!! The pair is really adorable!! So glad that you have got them part of your rilakkuma hug!!😄😄😄 Take care!!
Thanks so much for reading again! I’m so glad to have these plushies in my collection – their bright green outfits stand out so well!
Glad he got there safe and could join his coworker! They look adorable together!x
Yes!! I’m so glad they could be united again – the fan was getting lonely without his stationmaster hahaha. Thanks a bunch for all of your help!! <3