The toy store is seen for the first time in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, episode 5. In this episode, the club meets in the toy store as a competition is held. The winner will receive a prize of 50,000 yen. Mion, head of the club, knows the owner very well because he is her uncle, Yoshirō. He leaves them there to make the tournament because it's good publicity for the store to compete to bring many children into the shop. Club members Mion, Keiichi, Satoko, Rika and Rena played there with other children, including Okamura and Tomita and play a game called Karuta. Whoever wins the most cards wins. But after a while, Keiichi (who kept losing), decided to enlist Okamura and Tomita in a pact with him. If they helped, Keiichi prepared a kind of date with Rika and Satoko (who they have a crush on).