Yokkaichi City's mascot is Konyudokun, a blue-haired boy with a long tongue, who is a small, cute version of a giant, 200-year old mechanical doll that appears at local festivals.
Sasadangon, a popular unofficial mascot from Niigata Prefecture, is a sasa dango monster. (Sasa dango, a rice cake filled with red bean paste and wrapped in a bamboo leaf, is a sweet local treat.)
Softkuriinu, a big pink combination of an ice cream and a dog is a mascot who cleans the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo. He's often mistaken for a dog poo and is rumoured to be the poo of legendary Shibuya dog Hachiko.