Hiroshima’s Pikachu 261/SV-P Promo Card Guide: The Pokemon Center Hiroshima Japanese Promo

The Card: Hiroshima’s Pikachu 261/SV-P Mirror Holofoil

Hiroshima’s Pikachu (ヒロシマのピカチュウ) carries the promo number 261/SV-P, a Mirror Holofoil finish, and artwork credited to illustrator REOspikee. In-battle stats are the standard promo Pikachu profile: 70 HP, Lightning type.

What separates this print from a typical SV-P promo isn’t the card text — it’s the distribution. Hiroshima’s Pikachu was never sold individually or included in a generic promo pack. It came exclusively inside the Pokémon Center Hiroshima Special Box, a product built around a single event: Pokémon Center Hiroshima’s move out of the SOGO department store and into the Minamoa shopping centre. Order slots for that box were allocated through Pokémon Center Online, by lottery, with no general retail sale.

Our own graded copy — PSA10 Hiroshima’s Pikachu P [SV-P 261] (update: uitverkocht — vraag restock aan via Quick Order) — is currently listed without a displayed price on the live store. If you’re after this exact print, the sourcing route is a Snel bestellen enquiry rather than an add-to-cart purchase.

The Set: The Pokémon Center Hiroshima Special Box

Hiroshima’s Pikachu doesn’t come from a numbered expansion, so there’s no “set size” in the usual sense — it comes from a single commemorative box built around one retail event. The Pokémon Center Hiroshima Special Box marked the store’s relocation from its long-running space inside the SOGO department store to the Minamoa shopping centre.

The Hiroshima-specific timeline:

• Application window: 13–17 June 2025
• Results announced: 4 July 2025
• Purchase window: 4–8 July 2025 (later extended to 31 July 2025)
• Shipping began: early September 2025

Initial orders were taken exclusively through Pokémon Center Online and allocated by lottery, with no walk-in retail purchase at launch. The manufacturer’s own product page for these boxes confirms a further lottery-sale round was run afterward, and states that physical Pokémon Center stores may carry the boxes at a later date — so this was not strictly a single, unrepeatable release, even though the initial route to a copy was lottery-only.

Where This Print Sits Among Japanese Chase-Rarity Tiers

We don’t quote pull rates or third-party market prices for promo cards — there’s no pack to pull from, so a “pull rate” doesn’t apply here. What we can compare, using only the distribution facts on record, is how restricted each promo’s access route was.

A standard SV-P promo — our related listing PSA10 Pikachu PROMO 207/SM-P is a comparable example from an earlier promo generation — typically moves through broader promotional channels: campaign redemptions, set-adjacent bundles, or general promo packs with recurring availability. Hiroshima’s Pikachu sits above that tier on restriction, not on a rarity symbol: access ran through a lottery tied to one store’s relocation, rather than a broad promotional channel. The same applies to its Fukuoka and Tohoku siblings. The manufacturer did run at least one further lottery-sale round for these boxes after the initial June 2025 wave, and its own product page notes physical Pokémon Center stores may carry them later — so “lottery-only” describes the access route, not a guarantee that no further round will ever happen.

In practical terms for collectors: a generic SV-P or SM-P promo typically moves through broader, recurring promotional channels. A store-relocation lottery promo like Hiroshima’s Pikachu is tied to a one-time event (Pokémon Center Hiroshima’s move to Minamoa), which is why access has stayed limited to lottery rounds rather than open retail sale.

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