Bandai Namco revealed a tourism promotion cooperation with the Takatsuki City Tourism Association appointed Yayoi Takatsuki from The Idolmaster as its ambassador. Characters will also help promote a a chain of restaurants The name is Yayoiken.
Officials from the Osaka prefectural city will hold an event commemorating the appointment on January 20, 2022. It will take place at Ama Site Park, known for storing relics from the Yayoi period. history. The city will also host stamp campaigns and feature merchandise stores that sell character-related items.
Takatsuki City is also home to a branch of the Yayoiken restaurant chain. Due to the coincidence of the name, the branch always has a flow of visitors whenever there is an event related to this character. Yayoi Takatsuki fans will be celebrating her birthday every year at the restaurant on March 25. Bandai Namco and Yayoiken will announce more details about the upcoming collaboration in early March 2022.
Yayoi Takatsuki is one of the characters that has existed since the first time Idolmaster The game debuted on video games in 2005. However, her name being shared with the restaurant Yayoiken and the city of Takatsuki is a coincidence. In one 2015 interview, manga series producer Yozo Sakagami revealed that Namco named the first Idolmaster the characters behind the Japanese battleship.
The latest console title in the series, The Idolmaster: Starlit Season, immediately available on PlayStation 4 and PC in Japan and Asia. Yayoi Takatsuki is one of the 29 idols featured in the original game. Bandai Namco has released DLC sets that add more idols to the game, such as Kaede Takagaki and Kotoha Tanaka.
