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August, 2024 (Page 6)
Does Japan’s new low-calorie convenience store fried chicken have any reason to exist?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 12, 2024 - Tweet
Off Kara and Off Chiki arrive at Laweson, and on our plate.
- Japan
- (COK • convenience stores • food • fried chicken • karaage • L Chiki • Lawson • SNJO • taste test)
Shinjuku Ninja Live Show: New Tokyo tourist attraction created by the Japan Ninja Council
- Oona McGee
Aug 12, 2024
Kabuki musician teams up with the world’s only official ninja organisation for a night you’ll remember forever.
- Japan
- (actors • arts • cool • Japan Ninja Council • live event • Ninja • oiran • shinjuku • Shinjuku Ninja Live Show • shows • taiko • theatre • Tokyo • tradition)
Japanese cafe has speech-to-text displays for conversation with hard-of-hearing staff and customers
- Casey Baseel
Aug 12, 2024
New Shojo Cafe Bar continues owners’ mission to “create environments where disabilities disappear.”
- Japan
- (accessibility • cafes • COK • deaf • disabilities • hearing impaired • Osaka • restaurants)
Haneda Market: Tokyo Station conveyor belt sushi restaurant is special on two days of the week
- Oona McGee
Aug 12, 2024
Insider tips will get you the freshest fish possible.
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • fish • food • Kaitenzushi • restaurants • review • revolving sushi • seafood • SNJO • sushi • sushi restaurant • taste test • Tokyo Station)
Japan’s famous Crunky chocolate becomes chewing gum…and it has the weirdest taste and texture
- Oona McGee
Aug 11, 2024
Your brain will feel crunky while eating this Crunky.
- Japan
- (chewing gum • chocolate • COK • Crunky • gum • Lotte • new products • new release • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird)
Chainsaw Man coming to Universal Studios Japan with Pochita chow, plushies, and thrill ride music
- Casey Baseel
Aug 11, 2024
Pochita food’s inside is as unique as its outside.
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • anime • Chainsaw Man • manga • them parks • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • USJ)
Epic cutlet sandwiches in Osaka are the best Shinkansen bento
- Oona McGee
Aug 11, 2024
A tasty way to travel on the bullet train.
- Japan
- (bento • big eats • bullet train • cutlet sandwich • Ekiben • food • Japanese food • katsu • katsu sandwich • Osaka • sandwiches • shinkansen • train stations)
Beautiful Whisper of the Heart music box figure brings sights, sounds of Ghibli anime to your home
- Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2024
Shizuku’s muse can be yours too.
- Japan
- (anime • Donguri Kyowakoku • figures • interior • music box • Studio Ghibli • whisper of the heart)
Smallest hotel room in Tokyo? This cheap stay for two will turn friends into lovers
- Oona McGee
Aug 10, 2024
Test the bounds of your relationship with this tiny accommodation in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (budget travel • cheap hotels • cheap travel • COK • hostels • hotels • Masanuki Sunakoma • Minamisenju • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • Tokyo • tourism • travel)
Mr. Sato dons full pilgrim fashion to escape the summer heat
- Master Blaster
Aug 10, 2024
Let’s take it back to ’79… 1879.
- Japan
- (ajirogasa • COK • culture • dabo-gi • fashion • funny • heat • Karajishibotan • koiguchi • Mr. Sato • SNJO • summer)
Ghibli Museum’s Summer Stand lets you get a taste of Ghibli fun even if you don’t have a ticket
- Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2024
Advance tickets are absolutely required and tough to get for Tokyo’s Ghibli Museum, but on certain summer days there’s a special event for the ticketless too.
- Japan
- (anime • Ghibli Museum • museums • Studio Ghibli • tourism • travel)
McDonald’s releases Pokémon Happy Meal toys in Japan, but are they actually good?
- Oona McGee
Aug 10, 2024
Captain Pikachu leads the way for this limited-edition summer collection.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • fast food • food • Happy Meal • Happy Meals • Happy Set • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • SNJO • toys • video games)
Wait, you can still send telegrams in Japan? Why? And is it time to shut the service down?
- Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2024
There’s a lot of snickering from other parts of the world when they find out that some people in Japan still use fax machines, but an an even more old-school communications method is still an option too.
- Japan
- (crazy • funny • NTT • society • technology • telegrams • telegraphs • weird)
Eievui Friends Afternoon Tea: Eevee and its Eeveelutions disappoint one Pokémon fan in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Aug 9, 2024
You don’t get a lot of Pokémon for your yen these days.
- Japan
- (afternoon tea • anime • anime food • COK • cute • Eevee • Eeveelutions • high tea • hotels • Omotesando • Pokemon • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • themed cafe • themed food • Tokyo)
Burger King Japan’s new Steak Sauce Whopper contains actual steak pieces
- Oona McGee
Aug 9, 2024
Special soy sauce adds a Japanese twist to this meaty affair.
- Japan
- (beef • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • fast food • food • limited edition • meat • new release • restaurants • spice • spicy • spicy food • steak)
Surreal scenes of Nara’s giant Buddha statue getting its once-a-year cleaning from 170 people【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2024
Size difference makes human cleaners of the Daibutsu statue look like tiny little spirits.
- Japan
- (Buddhism • cool • crazy • daibutsu • Great Buddha • Nara • Nara Daibutsu • temples • Todaiji • tourism • travel • video)
Edible Ghibli character shaved ice now on sale in Tokyo to save us from the summer heat
- Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2024
Forest spirit Totoro is now a shaved ice savior.
- Japan
- (anime • cafes • food • My Neighbor Totoro • restaurants • shaved ice • Shirohige's Cream Puff Factory • sweets • Totoro)
General sales of Japan’s most convenient prepaid train/shopping card to finally resume soon
- Casey Baseel
Aug 8, 2024
JR East says Suica sales are coming back in full force.
- Japan
- (COK • East Japan Railway • JR • JR East • Pasmo • prepaid cards • subways • Suica • tourism • trains • travel)
Pizza Hut releases a special udon pizza…but only in one part of Japan
- Oona McGee
Aug 8, 2024
Noodles are just one of several unusual ingredients in this very Japanese topping.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • crazy • food • Fukuoka • Noodles • nooldes • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • ramen • udon • weird • weird food)
Our delivery of meat from Katsuya was so full of everything deep-fried that we almost cried
- Krista Rogers
Aug 8, 2024
Nevertheless, we dutifully dissected every element of the chain’s new takeout-exclusive “Full Mori” menu item before downing it all.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • bento • big food • COK • dining • food • fried food • Full Mori • karaage • katsudon • Katsuya • SNJO • tonkatsu)
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