{"id":446009,"date":"2026-08-28T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:52:03","slug":"one-of-san-franciscos-busiest-streets-has-become-rayquaza-road-as-pokemon-worlds-2026-pokemonxp-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446009\/","title":{"rendered":"One of San Francisco\u2019s busiest streets has become Rayquaza Road as Pok\u00e9mon Worlds 2026 & Pok\u00e9monXP begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of San Francisco\u2019s busiest roads has been rechristened Rayquaza Road as the Pok\u00e9mon World Championships and Pok\u00e9monXP begin.<\/p>\n

SF\u2019s Howard Street, which runs next to the Moscone Center, has been transformed, as over 50,000 Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> fans descend on the area. VGC had the chance to explore the street ahead of the official opening.<\/p>\n

Rayquaza Road contains photo ops for fans, demonstrations of products, and Pok\u00e9mon-themed food vendors.<\/p>\n

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Skateboarding brand Santa Cruz was in attendance, showing off some of the new decks that will be released soon. Previous Pok\u00e9mon Santa Cruz decks, which came in blind bags, were extremely popular. This line of skateboard decks features some of the most popular trading cards ever released as part of the Pok\u00e9mon TCG.<\/p>\n

Fans in attendance at the show can also help build a \u201clife-sized\u201d Lego Rayquaza at the Lego stand on Rayquaza Road. The Honda Koraidon, a life-sized model of the Legendary Pok\u00e9mon, was also shown off as part of the preview.<\/p>\n

Chris Brown, The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/a>\u2019s director of global esports and events producer, opened the show, alongside local politicians and two Pikachu mascots dressed in Pok\u00e9mon Worlds 2026 and Pok\u00e9mon XP costumes.<\/p>\n

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The Pok\u00e9mon World Championships 2026 and Pok\u00e9mon XP take place from August 28 until August 30.<\/p>\n

Taking place concurrently with the Pok\u00e9mon World Championships, Pok\u00e9monXP is focused on fan activities such as panels, signings, and more, whereas the World Championships is a strictly competitive environment where players from around the world compete for top cash prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of San Francisco\u2019s busiest roads has been rechristened Rayquaza Road as the Pok\u00e9mon World Championships and Pok\u00e9monXP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-446009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}