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Oona McGee
Half-Japanese Oona McGee hails from Sydney, Australia, where she worked as a journalist and copywriter before making the move to Japan over a decade ago. Now she spends her days exploring the streets of Tokyo with her laptop and camera, always in search of new cafes, restaurants, events and stories to share with our readers. As an experienced food and travel reporter, Oona has travelled extensively through all 47 prefectures of Japan, and is constantly researching new destinations and drawing up itineraries for her next adventure.
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Why do Japanese stairs have red-and-yellow marks on them?
- Oona McGee
Jan 13, 2020 - Tweet
Even people in Japan are surprised to learn what they’re for.
- Japan
- (architecture • clever • design • eyesight • inventions • Japanese train stations • society • stairs • train stations • trains)
Japanese salaryman creates jaw-dropping model of Shinjuku from paper
- Oona McGee
Jan 13, 2020
From towering skyscrapers through to the world’s busiest station, this sprawling Tokyo ward took years to recreate in miniature.
- Japan
- (city planning • clever • cool • crafts • design • Japanese salaryman • kamikiri • models • paper • shinjuku • Tokyo)
Studio Ghibli produces commercial for Japanese convenience store chain Lawson 【Video】
- Oona McGee
Jan 13, 2020
Academy award winning animator and a Ghibli artist who works at Lawson part-time join forces to pay homage to the konbini.
- Japan
- (animation • anime • art • commercials • convenience stores • cute • Ghibli • Japanese commercials • Japanese convenience stores • Kawaii • konbini • Lawson • Studio Ghibli)
Mister Donut teams up with French patisserie chain Pierre Hermé for new range of luxury doughnuts
- Oona McGee
Jan 10, 2020
The famous Ispahan rose macaron cake is just one of the sweet delights making its doughnut debut.
- Japan
- (collaboration • doughnuts • limited edition • Misdo • Mister Donut • pastries • Pierre Hermé • sweets)
Studio Ghibli makes every day magical with new Spirited Away, Totoro and Kiki calendars
- Oona McGee
Jan 8, 2020
Beloved characters keep you company every day of the year.
- Japan
- (anime • calendar • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Kawaii • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)
Coca-Cola Japan releases their first-ever strawberry coke
- Oona McGee
Jan 8, 2020
World’s first Strawberry Coca-Cola is set to make its global debut in Japan.
- Japan
- (Coca-Cola • Coke • drinks • limited edition • new • strawberry)
Cosplay lucky bag delivers costumes aimed at first-time cosplayers in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 7, 2020
Is this how you’re meant to cosplay?
- Japan
- (COK • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • SNJO)
Lotte City Hotel in Tokyo comes with all-you-can-eat sweets and ice cream
- Oona McGee
Jan 7, 2020
People in Japan are going crazy for this sweets hotel, which serves up Koala’s March pancakes unavailable anywhere else in the world.
- Japan
- (accommodation • Bikkuriman • chocolate • COK • hotels • Kinshicho • koala no march • Koala's March • Lotte • pancakes • SNJO • sweets • travel • weird)
Godzilla Store crushes New Year with king of the 2020 fukubukuro lucky bags
- Oona McGee
Jan 7, 2020
Extra rare merchandise limited to only 100 lucky shoppers.
- Japan
- (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Godzilla • Ippudo • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • movies • SNJO)
Sukiya beef bowl chain makes Japanese New Year fun with limited-edition fukubukuro
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
13 reasons why 2020 ought to be the Year of the Beef Bowl.
- Japan
- (beef bowl • beef bowls • fast food • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Japanese food • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • SNJO • Sukiya)
Japanese Lucky Beckoning Cat banknote design is the faux money we wish was real
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
Manekineko cat currency is filled with lucky omens for the New Year.
- Japan
- (animals • art • beckoning cat • Beckoning cats • cats • cool • cute • manekineko • money • pets • stationery • yen)
Naomi Osaka appears inside fukubukuro lucky bag from famous Japanese candy retail chain
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
Tennis star makes a surprise appearance in a bag filled with snacks and sweets.
- Japan
- (candy • chocolate • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Naomi Osaka • SNJO • sweets)
Ippudo ramen gives noodle lovers a fantastic fukubukuro lucky bag for 2020
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
Start the New Year right with this once-in-a-year gift from the world-famous ramen chain.
- Japan
- (food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Ippudo • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Noodles • ramen • SNJO)
Yoshinoya fukubukuro lucky bag comes with sought-after beef bowl, sold at only one place in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
We go on a journey to find the Holy Grail of beef bowls.
- Japan
- (beef bowl • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Japanese food • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • SNJO • Yoshinoya)
Ikea hot dog lucky bag is one of the most unusual fukubukuro available in Japan this year
- Oona McGee
Jan 5, 2020
Ikea Japan gives locals a lesson on how to make a good hot dog for the New Year.
- Japan
- (food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • hot dogs • ikea • ikea japan • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • SNJO)
Krispy Kreme fukubukuro lucky bag comes with cute limited-edition doughnuts for New Year in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 4, 2020
Gifts so good the diet will just have to wait until another day.
- Japan
- (donuts • doughnuts • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Krispy Kreme • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • sweets)
Starbucks Japan lucky bag is the most hard-to-get fukubukuro of the New Year
- Oona McGee
Jan 3, 2020
A lucky bag so popular it can only be purchased by lottery winners.
- Japan
- (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bags • new year 2020 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
Studio Ghibli celebrates New Year with a fukubukuro lucky bag packed with anime merchandise
- Oona McGee
Jan 3, 2020
Donguri Kyowakoku delivers one of the best lucky bags of the New Year, with a very unusual Totoro.
- Japan
- (anime • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • merchandise • My Neighbour Totoro • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)
Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako creates jaw-dropping crowd at Winter Comiket【Photos】
- Oona McGee
Jan 2, 2020
This Japanese cosplayer is so popular she creates a phenomenon known as the Enako Ring.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • Comiket • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • crazy • Enako • Sword Art Online • Winter Comiket • Winter Comiket 2019)
The best Japanese cosplayers from Day 3 of Winter Comiket 2019【Photos】
- Oona McGee
Jan 2, 2020
Characters from Evangelion, Azur Lane, and Psycho-Pass are just some of the famous faces making an appearance.
- Japan
- (anime • C97 • COK • Comiket • Comiket 97 • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • doujinshi • manga • SNJO • Winter Comiket • Winter Comiket 2019)
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