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If you're going to catch the shinkansen to Osaka from Tokyo you will pass through Nagoya. Both Legoland in Nagoya and the discovery center in Osaka are a decent train ride from the station.
Do you have young children? If not, I don't think you will be able to enter the Osaka Discovery Center. Unaccompanied adults are generally excluded.
I haven't been to Tokyo so don't know of any stores. The PAB wall at the Nagoya store is a hundred times better than the one in Osaka-umeda.
If you're near a TRU it would be worth checking but all of the Bricktober sets sold out at my closest one.
You should be able to get Legoland exclusive sets at Legoland and in the LDC, and they generally let you in the store even if you can't enter the play/display area.
If you go to the LDC and aren't allowed in there's a great aquarium right next door so it doesn't need to be a wasted trip.
If you are going to stop in Nagoya and are a Studio Ghibli fan there is an amazing recreation of the house from My Neighbor Totoro just outside town.
Let me know if you have any questions, but nothing too complicated, I've only been here three months :)
Echoing @Jenni that there's not much interesting in the Osaka Certified Lego Store. The highlight is this Duplo build:
However there's some nice diorama's in a corridor just outside the store, like this one:
Legoland Nagoya is rather small, but the Miniland and the large builds around the park are amazing.
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They have PAB walls, the stores are almost identical to official stores. I've only been to two, Osaka-umeda was terrible, Nagoya was generally pretty good and once they got to know me they'd go hunt in the back for interesting things. Apparently they have no say in what they get sent so I may have caught Osaka right before a shipment. I don't think you'll find anything there that you couldn't in the UK.
However PAB prices are crazy ¥3,000 for large and ¥2,000 for small. The prices for PAB were 5% less at LEGOland Nagoya and it was a decent selection.
Maybe if it came with some smoked bonito flakes, I'd consider it.