What is Gashapon / Gachapon? First Official Bandai Gashapon Vending Machine Store in Manila Here's a walking tour of the first official Bandai gashapon vending machine store at Mitsukoshi mall in Uptown Bonifacio. The terms gashapon (ガシャポン) or gachapon (ガチャポン) refer to a variety of vending machine-dispensed capsule toys popular in Japan and elsewhere. "Gashapon" is onomatopoeic from the two Japanese sounds: "gasha" (or "gacha") for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending machine, and "pon" for