HopHop Bunny (Marina Square)

HopHop Bunny is a small pink-themed arcade on level 3 of Marina Square, built for very young children.

The floor is gachapon capsule machines and pinball, scaled and priced for little hands. The point here is not a high score: it is letting a child put a coin in, work a machine themselves, and walk out holding something. Everything is pink and decorated to match, which makes it as much a place to photograph a child in as to play in, and the whole room is small enough to keep an eye on from one spot. It opens 10am to 10pm, every day of the week.

Treat it as a short stop rather than an afternoon out — a pause between shops, or a treat on the way out of the mall. It is pitched at the youngest end of the range, toddlers and pre-schoolers rather than school-age children, and anyone older will have exhausted it in ten minutes. As a first arcade, that is exactly the point.