Japanese World Hobby Fair Promos Card List
The World Hobby Fair is a Japanese consumer game show, and Pokémon cards were handed out at it — never sold in a shop, never part of an expansion. This page carries the three the price source files under the campaign: two Pikachu promos and a Chikorita. The Pikachu are published only as #1 and #25 with no year or venue attached, so this page prints the numbers and does not claim which fair edition each is; resolving that needs a scan's stamp or a contemporary magazine, not a guess. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 3 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Card List
Japanese World Hobby Fair Promos At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese World Hobby Fair Promos?
The set holds 3 cards, released 1997. This site tracks 3 printings of them (Promo 3), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
One printing each, no 1st Edition and no Unlimited run — these are hand-outs, not a set. The cards print no collector number, so the number shown is the Pokédex number the price source files them by. Source: PriceCharting product-row naming.
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Pikachu #25 at $145 raw, about $5,088 in PSA 10. One raw copy of every printing here totals $255.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. None a Japanese fair hand-out with no English counterpart, so these are the only printings of these cards that were ever made. They are one of just two Japanese releases of the era with no English counterpart at all.
How do I tell a Japanese World Hobby Fair Promos card apart from the English printing?
Turn it over, which is the quickest tell there is: this set predates July 2001, when Japanese cards carried the Pocket Monsters Card Game back — a design no English card ever had, against the blue Pokémon back. The back changed once, with Pokémon VS in July 2001, so the back alone dates a card to this era.
Either way, the symbol beside the number is the Japanese set's own, not the English set's.
Prices are PriceCharting sold comps read 2026-11-06 and are per printing. This set is not in TCGdex, and no structured fact source covers it, so rarity, type and illustrator are omitted rather than guessed. One raw copy of every printing on this page totals $255.