Animal Crossing has always entranced players with its tranquil sandbox world, offering a serene utopia filled with cute villagers, a charming soundtrack and fun activities to build your own little community. With an overwhelming tide of chaos from the real world these days, games like Animal Crossing can give us a brief breath of relieving digital air to escape to.
The game makes you yearn to return to a place that you’ve never physically visited — until now.
Tokyu Resort Town Tateshina, in Nagano Prefecture, is collaborating with Nintendo for a limited-time immersive Animal Crossing experience that invites you to live out your villager dreams.
© Nintendo via Tokyu Resort Town Tateshina
Enter the World of Animal Crossing
Located around 2.5 hours from Shinjuku near the Chichibu-Tama area, Tokyu Resort Town Tateshina is an environmentally-focused resort amidst lush natural surroundings that make a perfect venue for camping and nature exploration inspired by the Animal Crossing world.
The resort’s “Explore Nature in Tateshina Forest” campaign runs from April 18 to July 20, with a ton of activities like fishing and stargazing, inspired by characters and tasks players also encounter in the game.
The experience is available to both hotel guests and daytime visitors. Each of the activities require a separate ticket, but the resort also offers a special accommodation package that includes access to all of the attractions in an all-inclusive ticket.
© Nintendo via Game Watch
Explore the Forest with Tom Nook and Isabelle
A stamp rally acts as a fun guide to explore the resort grounds. The passport-like booklet (available for ¥800) has spots to collect stamps, a map and quiz cards for various missions.
© Nintendo via Game Watch
These stamp booklets have previously been seen in other Animal Crossing collaboration events like in the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise partnership. In a similar vein, various stamp stations will be placed around the resort featuring different Animal Crossing villagers. Collect five stamps to receive a special stamp of K.K. Slider, and collect nine stamps for a commemorative sticker.
The resort is huge — boasting around the size of 140 Tokyo Domes, so searching for the different characters is a good opportunity to visit different scenic areas. Guests can find photo spots with characters like Tom Nook and Isabelle along the river, or stumble into Fauna and Sasha by a bench.
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Exhibits of local insects show real-life versions of bugs players can catch with their nets in the game.
© Nintendo via Game Watch
Go Fishing with Justin
Guests can go fishing at the pond, accompanied by C.J., the beaver that hosts the fishing tourneys in the game. You can fish with a rod, or attempt to catch one with your bare hands. After successfully catching your fish, you can grill it right there by the pond and enjoy a fresh catch with a serene view.
This activity costs ¥2000 per person for rod-style fishing or ¥1500 per person for hand catching, and ¥300 per fish to grill. Guests can purchase tickets in the ticketing machine near the pond’s reception desk, or use their all-inclusive ticket.
© Nintendo via Game Watch
Plant Flowers with Leif
With the spirit of caring for and continuing the bountiful flora and fauna of the forest, you can join the tree planting challenge and plant a seedling. Your tree will continue to grow and forever become a part of Tateshina forest. This activity (¥1000 per person) will be held exclusively on May 10. Applications will open on the website around two weeks prior to the event.
Guests can also explore and harvest from the garden where Tateshina vegetables, herbs, fruit trees and edible flowers thrive. This activity (¥1000 per person) will be held exclusively on July 12, with applications also opening around two weeks prior.
Grab a Coffee at The Roost
Perhaps one of the most exciting offerings of this collaboration, fans can go to a real-life version of The Roost cafe.
The hotel’s Bar Eau de Vie has been converted into the game’s cozy little coffee spot, with Brewster behind the counter pouring a fresh cup of joe. The cafe will serve coffee, but also apple, peach and pear juice — fruits that not only grow in the game, but are also specialties of Nagano Prefecture.
Jam to K.K. Slider’s Discography
K.K. Slider also has a special room dedicated to the game’s famed musician. The room has a big display of K.K.’s most popular songs presented as vinyl records.
The venue has a little stage where K.K. “performs” concerts for the villagers and guests. The neon lights and character standees make the space a chic photo spot taken straight out of the game.
Bring a Unique Souvenir Home
The collaboration has plenty of unique souvenirs to bring home after your adventure.
Two offerings are part of hands-on workshops. Guests can build their own original wooden birdhouse (¥3000 per unit) or make soaps from scratch (¥1500 per unit) shaped like the Animal Crossing inventory leaf logo. The soaps are made from recycled cooking oil, making the activity another immersive environmental experience.
Collaboration merchandise will also be available, including wooden keychains, tea sets, lunch totes and langue de chat cookies.
For more information and to book a stay at the Tokyu Resort Town Tateshina, please visit the campaign website.
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Updated On April 28, 2026
