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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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Step into a fairy tale at Japan’s new Beauty and the Beast themed cafe restaurant

Oona McGee
Sep 27, 2016
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This new eatery is transporting diners to another world with its special menu and atmospheric rooms.

Japan
(Beauty and the Beast • cafe • Chinatown • cute • Disney • Disney princess • restaurants • themed restaurants • Yokohama)

Capybara characters ride on each other’s heads and walk home through Japanese shopping mall

Oona McGee
Sep 27, 2016

Just another regular day in Japan.

Japan
(capybara • capybaras • characters • cute • Kapibara-san • Kapibarasan • malls • shopping mall)

Winter 2016 Cat Punch Gloves from Felissimo come with adorable new details

Oona McGee
Sep 27, 2016

Whether you’re swiping at a mobile game or making a point, these cats keep their paws on your finger everywhere you go!

Japan
(animals • cats • cute • fashion • Felissimo • gloves • phones • Smartphones • winter)

Japanese dessert lovers go crazy for crème brûlée crêpes at new Harajuku crêperie

Oona McGee
Sep 27, 2016

The famous delicacy from Toyama Prefecture is now one of the most sought after sweets in the heart of Tokyo!

Japan
(creme brulee • crepe • desserts • Harajuku • restaurants • sweets • Takeshita Dori • Tokyo)

Japanese gamer shares images of most realistic Pokémon Go gym battle ever

Oona McGee
Sep 27, 2016

Okinawan seaside becomes the perfect setting for this Lapras vs Gyarados showdown.

Japan
(Churaumi Aquarium • gaming • Gyarados • gyms • Lapras • mobile games • Okinawa • Pokemon • Pokémon GO)

New Suntory Japanese beer tells you what time to drink it

Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2016

According to Suntory Japan, different times of the day call for different types of beer.

Japan
(beer • drinks • hops • punctuality • souvenirs • Suntory • time • weird)

Japanese collector buys one of the most expensive and exclusive life-sized figurines ever made

Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2016

Priced at $19,600 and with only ten ever produced, this is one special delivery you don’t get to see every day.

Japan
(anime • Aniplex • cool • figures • figurines • life-size • life-sized figure • Megumi Kato • Saekano • toys • wow)

Cute cat fights yearning desire to eat food on table with adorable results【Video】

Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2016

The way this cat stares longingly at the dish while attempting to control her rising paw is winning hearts all over the Internet.

Japan
(animals • cat video • cat videos • cats • cute • cute pets • pets • twitter • videos)

We talk to Matt Damon in Tokyo about films, Tommy Lee Jones and how to be cool like Jason Bourne

Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2016

On 7 October, Japan finally gets to enjoy Jason Bourne, the latest instalment in the Bourne movie series, and ahead of the movie’s release our Japanese reporters were lucky enough to enjoy some time with Matt Damon.

Japan
(films • hollywood • Hollywood movies • interview • Jason Bourne • Matt Damon • movies)

Japanese cafe chain serves up purple pancakes for Halloween

Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2016

The sweet stack isn’t the only brightly coloured item on the menu!

Japan
(cute • desserts • drinks • food • halloween • Harajuku • pancakes • restaurants • weird)

Increasing number of women leave rice behind at revolving sushi train restaurants in Japan

Oona McGee
Sep 25, 2016

Unless sushi train restaurants add a new dish to their menus, the wasteful trend looks set to continue.

Japan
(Conveyor belt sushi • culture • dieting • food • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi • trends)

New Yorkers go crazy for taiyaki fish ice creams

Oona McGee
Sep 25, 2016

This New York store has only just opened and already the Internet’s gone into meltdown over their unique Japanese-influenced ice creams!

Japan
(adzuki • desserts • fish • green tea • ice cream • ice creams • mochi • New York City • taiyaki)

Japanese bookstore cafe wows customers with its unusual spy-like restroom

Oona McGee
Sep 24, 2016

Using the amenities at this bookshop cafe means pulling back a shelf of books like a character from a spy movie.

Japan
(books • bookstore • cafes • cool • design • Japanese toilets • Toilets • Tokyo • weird)

Mix childhood memories with your drinks at awesome new ball pit bar in Japan

Oona McGee
Sep 24, 2016

Hang out with the cool kids at Japan’s newest unusual drinking hole!

Japan
(bars • fun • new openings • Osaka • tourism • tourist sites • travel • weird)

Japanese love hotel makes plans to apply for Guinness World Record

Oona McGee
Sep 23, 2016

The reason for their entry will surprise you.

Japan
(accommodation • culture • dating • desserts • fun • Guinness World Record • hotels • Kobe • love • love hotels • parfait • romance • sweets)

New hemp mascot character Asamiko-chan appears in Japan

Oona McGee
Sep 23, 2016

With her own official Twitter account and a town in Tottori Prefecture behind her, Japan’s first ever cannabis character comes dressed as a pink-haired shrine maiden.