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Tokyo Station staff share their top 10 favorite ekiben

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 17, 2025
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Gransta Tokyo have selected the best travel lunches for your next long train ride.
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• Japan
• (Anji Tabata • bento • COK • dining • Ekiben • food and drinks • gourmet • Gransta • Gransta Tokyo • Japanese food • ranking • survey • Tokyo • Tokyo Station • Top Ten • travel)

How to try the viral 7-Eleven smoothie hack in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2025

This convenience store trend takes an already popular drink to new heights of deliciousness.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • coffee • coffees • COK • combini • convenience store finds • convenience stores • drinks • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • taste test)

World’s oldest manga is now a bra thanks to Japanese lingerie maker’s art history series【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2025

Peach John’s Master’s Bra design draws inspiration from an official national treasure of Japan.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • Choju-Giga • Chojugiga • Chojujinbutsugiga Choju-giga • culture • fashion • history • lingerie • manga • Master’s Bra • Peach John)

Japanese automaker Suzuki now makes instant curry, but does it rev our foodie engines?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2025

Believe it or not, there’s a very logical reason that one of Japan’s most famous car companies has gotten into the curry game.

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• Japan
• (cars • COK • curry • curry rice • food • instant curry • SNJO • Suzuki • taste test • weird)

Draco Malfoy himself comes to Tokyo to visit Harajuku’s brand-new Harry Potter store【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Aug 16, 2025

Slytherin star slithers into Harajuku, makes amends with Buckbeak as a Japanese superfan talks about how Draco changed his life.

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• Japan
• (celebrities • COK • Draco Malfoy • Harajuku • Harry Potter • Harry Potter Shop Harajuku • movies • Omotesando • SNJO • Tom Felton)

New English textbook published for anime industry’s Animator Skill Test

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2025

NAFCA text covers the skills, both in drawing and speaking Japanese, that you’ll need to start an anime artist career in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Animator Skill Test • anime • art • books • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • manga • NAFCA • Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association)

Starbucks Japan unveils new limited-edition matcha drink for summer

• Oona McGee
  Aug 15, 2025

Presenting “the taste of summer coolness”.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • matcha • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea)

Unstaffed massage parlor pops up in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Aug 15, 2025

There’s a reason why a store like this has never existed until now.

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• Japan
• (food • massage • massage chair • Mr. Sato • SNJO • Tokyo • unstaffed store)

What’s it like at Samoyed Cafe Moffu Harajuku?

• SoraNews24
  Aug 15, 2025

Dog cafe in Tokyo is a hit with locals and overseas tourists. 

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• Japan
• (animals • cafes • COK • dog cafes • dogs • Harajuku • pets • review • Samoyed • Samoyed Cafe • Samoyed Cafe Moffu • Samoyed Cafe Moffu Harajuku • Shibuya • SNJO • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel)

McDonald’s Japan vs. Pokémon Happy Meal Resellers – New purchase restrictions announced

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2025

With new Pokémon toys on the way, McDonald’s is trying to get ahead of the problems being caused by speculative scalpers.

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• Japan
• (anime • card games • fast food • food • hamburgers • Happy Meals • Happy Set • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • pokemon trading card game • resellers • scalpers • trading cards)

A visit to the birthplace of Kobe’s other famous food, sobameshi, to try it bokkake-style

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2025

The giant robot statue wasn’t the only surprise on our trip to Kobe neighborhood where its famous everyday dish that isn’t Kobe beef got its start.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Kobe • Noodles • SNJO • soba • sobameshi • tourism • travel)

How to buy a cake in a gacha capsule from a vending machine in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 14, 2025

The most delicious gacha may also be Japan’s cutest.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cakes • capsule toy machines • capsule toys • cool • gacha • gachapon • Osaka • weird)

Tokyo has a brand new Harry Potter shop with its own butterbeer bar – Let’s see what’s inside【Pics】

• SoraNews24
  Aug 14, 2025

The wizarding world comes to the Harajuku fashion district.

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• Japan
• (butterbeer • cafes • COK • drinks • food • Harajuku • Harry Potter • movies • Omotesando • restaurants • SNJO • themed cafes)

Japan’s reverse maid cafe lets cosplaying customers play the part of maids in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2025

Become a Maid flips the maid cafe script.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cosplay • cosplayers • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • themed cafes)

Crane games in Japanese convenience stores getting more and more popular, especially with tourists

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2025

Popularity with customers, including foreign tourists, leads to chain hitting crane game target months ahead of schedule.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • crane games • Lawson • UFO catchers)

If you go to the hospital in Japan, your doctor might be wearing a Pokémon coat and scrubs【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 13, 2025

Medical apparel company expands Pokémon line and addresses a complaint from fans about the original design.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • doctors • fashion • health • hospitals • manga • Pikachum • Pokemon • video games • weird • wellness)

Tokyo Disney Resort’s low park attendance continues amid extreme heat

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 13, 2025

With a new temperature record set in Japan, more people than ever seem to be saying no thank you to going outdoors altogether.

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• Japan
• (extreme • heat • low attendance • Oriental Land Company • theme park • Tokyo Disneyland)

Next stop for the Totoro Catbus: Your home, thanks to Ghibli magnets【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 13, 2025

Six feline friends, with one a secret, are ready to stick to surfaces and transport some Ghibli cuteness.

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• Japan
• (anime • Catbus • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • interior • magnets • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

McDonald’s Japan issues official apology over Pokémon Happy Meal reseller problems

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 13, 2025

Refusal of sales and mobile app account bans to be implemented, following latest case of speculators spoiling fun for fans and upsetting regular customers.

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• Japan
• (anime • card games • fast food • food • hamburgers • Happy Meals • Happy Set • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • pokemon trading card game • resellers • scalpers • trading cards)

Sanrio’s Kuromi Kuromifies high tea with Kuromi Afternoon Tea Party in Japan【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Aug 13, 2025

We get classy and cute on a trip to Tohoku to try Kuromi’s take on afternoon tea.

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• Japan
• (afternoon tea • cafes • COK • cute • hotels • Kuromi • restaurants • Sanrio • Sendai • SNJO • sweets • tea • tourism • travel • Westin • zunda)

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