Hard Rock Cafe Kyoto

Shrine Gate shaped Guitar with Cat Mask.  Retail Price: JP¥ 2000 plus taxes.  Released on July 18th, 2020.  Painted style.  Logo - Musical Theme back pattern.  This pin was sold through Retail.  Base Material is metal black appearance.

Guitar headstock with a red, white and blue design and an unpainted silver 3D Eagle with its wings spread out.  Above the eagle are 3 white stars on blue: 1 large and 2 small and below is a white logo with red lettering surrounded by a blue ring.  Retail Price: JP¥ 1800 plus taxes.  Released at the cafe opening on July 12/2019.  Painted style.  Hard Rock Cafe Logos & Guitars back pattern with 4 lines of inscription.  This pin was sold through Retail.  Base Material is silver appearance.

Airi Hara x Hard Rock CAFE

Ninja with Throwing Star on Guitar Pick

This pin was produced in collaboration with an up-and-coming calligrapher Airi Hara.

https://www.airihara-ec.jp/

Base material: antique silver appearance

Style: Painted

Back print: 4 lines

Back pattern: Hard Rock logos and crossed guitars

Distribution method: Retail and online

Release date: June 22nd, 2024

Limited edition of 300

Original retail price: 2,530 yen (including tax)

This alternative magnet features the To-ji Temple a large ancient Buddhist temple complex boasting a history of over 1,200 years, Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine, the flag of Japan, and a geisha in traditional costume.

Hard Rock Cafe logo with KYOTO at the bottom of the magnet.

Aoi Float Guitar - Three pandas on a round tray.

Aoi is the name of the festival. Float (mikoshi) refers to a portable shrine used in traditional Japanese festivals and ceremonies. Typically crafted from wood and elaborately decorated, a mikoshi is carried by groups of people through the streets, usually from a Shinto shrine, as part of religious processions or festivals. It's believed to enshrine the spirit of a deity and is paraded to bring blessings and good fortune to the community. The carrying of the mikoshi is often accompanied by lively music, chanting, and festivities.

Base material: gold appearance

Style: Painted

Back print: x lines

Back pattern: Hard Rock logos and crossed guitars

Distribution method: Retail and online

Release date: May 3rd, 2024

Limited edition of 300

Original retail price: 2310 JPY (including tax)

Autumn - Geisha girl holding a monster lantern in front of a bamboo grove.  Retail Price: JP¥ 1800 plus taxes.  Released on September 21, 2019.  Painted style.  Hard Rock Cafe Logos & Guitars back pattern.  This pin was sold through Retail.

Autumn - Tailed Fox

Base material: Black Appearance

Style: Painted

Back print: 4 lines

Back pattern: Hard Rock logos and crossed guitars

Distribution method: Retail and online

Release date: October 5th, 2024

Limited edition of 300

Retail price: 2,420 yen (including tax)

Part of the Burger and Shake Series, celebrating the new Hard Rock menu that launched on June 14, 2019 (Founders’ Day). Each pin features the revised Original Legendary Burger, now made with steak, on a white plate at the center and the new Cookies and Cream Boozy Milkshake on the right. At left, partially covered by the burger, is a local city scene on a gold bottle cap. Design is 3D pin on pin, with burger and shake as textured top layer and bottle cap as bottom layer.

Kyoto pin features an old temple. At top right of city scene is a rectangular blue sign with the city name in white letters. Hard Rock Cafe logo is at bottom center of pin and does not include location name. Back of pin says "Limited Edition 200."

Base material: Gold appearance

Paint style: Painted

Back print: 4 lines

Back pattern: Hard Rock Cafe logos and diagonal guitars

Distribution method: Retail

Release date: September 21, 2019

Original retail price: JP¥ 2000 plus taxes

Fourth in a series of clone pins promoting the partnership between Hard Rock and soccer (football) player Lionel Messi.

Hard Rock merchandise originated in the early 1970s, when the first cafe in London sponsored a local soccer team and made uniform shirts with the Hard Rock Cafe logo. Extra shirts were given to customers, creating such demand that more shirts were made and sold.

Pin features laser-printed artwork of Messi at the center of a Hard Rock logo, leaping to the left and kicking a soccer ball. Design is primarily blue and black. Logo is black with a blue background. Messi's uniform is mainly shades of pink, with light blue and white shorts and light blue, red and yellow shoes. On his chest is another Hard Rock logo in black. As team captain, he also wears a black armband with the letter C in white. Ball is at top left in blue and yellow. At bottom center of pin is Captain Messi and the location name.

Back of pin says "Limited Edition" and does not state quantity.

Sold on a glossy black, purple, and yellow backing card with a Hard Rock logo in white at top left and Captain Messi logo in blue, yellow, and white at top right.

Base material: Blue appearance

Style: Painted

Back print: 4 lines

Back pattern: Hard Rock logos and diagonal guitars

Distribution method: Retail and/or online

Release date: October 23rd, 2024

Original retail price: 2,640 yen (including tax)

The pin is a green and gold four-leaf Celtic style shamrock. At the Shamrock's center is the gold Hard Rock Cafe logo.  The stem of the shamrock is at the bottom right. The centers of the leaves have transparent green infills.

Back of the pin says "Limited Edition", it does not state the quantity.  Cafe states LE100.

Base material: Gold appearance

Style: Painted

Back print: 4 lines, 4 separate boxed lines

Back pattern: Smooth

Distribution method: Retail

Release date: March 2nd, 2024

Original retail price: 2,420 yen (including tax)

Chrome silver green horizontal guitar with Hard Rock Cafe logo in green letters on a silver circle on the guitar neck with green headstock. Location name in silver under the logo.  Guitar body is green, the scratchplate is silver. This is the 1st color that was introduced. There are 4 others in the series.

Core pin; not limited edition.

Base material:  Silver appearance

Style:  Painted

Back print:  3 lines

Back pattern:  Hard Rock Logos and diagonal guitars 

Distribution method:  Retail 

Release date:  December 21st, 2024

Original retail price:  2,420 yen (including tax)

Vertical guitar with "Cinco de Mayo" in the colors of the Mexican flag on its body.  A sombrero sits on top of the guitar headstock, dangling jalapenos at the gold hard rock logo and colorful maracas at the bottom of the guitar body. This pin is a holiday clone.

Back of the pin states "Limited Edition" but does not state the quantity.

Base material:  Gold appearance

Style: Painted

Back print:  4 lines

Back pattern:  Hard Rock Logos and diagonal guitars

Distribution method: Retail

Limited Edition of 100.

Release date: April 20th, 2024

Original retail price: 2,310 yen (including tax)

City Guitar - Holizontal Double Necked Guitar with Kimono Girl

Style: Painted 

Back Print: 3 Lines 

Back Pattern: Hard Rock Cafe Logo and Guitars

Base Material: Gold Appearance

Distribution Method: Retail

Released Date: February 26th, 2024

Retail Price 2,200 yen (including tax)

A guitar-themed Torii gate, a pagoda, and a Geisha in front of a large Japanese flag.  Retail Price: JP¥ 1800 plus taxes.  Released at the cafe opening on July 12/2019.  Painted style.  Hard Rock Cafe Logos & Guitars back pattern.  This pin was sold through Retail.  Base Material is gold appearance.

Part of the global City Pin Up Girl Series. Each pin is a vertical rectangle featuring a sexy 3D girl in a bikini or beach wear. In background are one or more iconic local images. This is the first Hard Rock pin series with artwork embellished with 3D laser print.

Location Kyoto. Background is Bamboo Forest.

The year 2020 appears in the text box on the back of the pin. Back of pin states that it is a "Limited Edition" of 200.

Sold on a unique series backing card which features radiating rays in two shades of blue. At the bottom of the card, in two rows of dark blue capital letters, are the words, "Limited Edition" and "City Pin Up Girl Series".

Base Material: Gold Appearance

Style: Painted

Back Print: 5 Lines

Back Pattern: Hard Rock logos and diagonal guitars

Distribution: Retail

Release Date: July 4th, 2020

Original Retail Price: 1,800 yen plus taxes

City Tee Guitar Bottle Opener Magnet features Otonashi-no-Taki Falls, a pagoda, trees, and Biwa.

Original retail price: 1800 JPY

City guitar bottle opener magnet featuring a temple in the background and "KYOTO" in large red and white letterings (designed after Japan national flag) on the middle of the guitar. Machiya (traditional Japanese house) on the right and a Geisha on the left with cherry blossom surrounding it.

Hard Rock Cafe logo in white on blue guitar nack.