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Japan Airlines is giving away free domestic flights to international tourists
- Oona McGee
Jul 10, 2025 - Tweet
Find out how you can take advantage of this special offer.
- Japan
- (Air travel • airplanes • ANA • COK • domestic flights • domestic travel • flights • foreigners • free flights • free travel • JAL • Japan Airlines • plane travel • special deal • special offer • tourism • tourists • travel)
TeamLab opening amazing outdoor art exhibit at one of Japan’s more uniquely beautiful gardens【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 10, 2025
A Forest Where Gods Live returns to Mifuneyama Rakuen.
Milk made from yeast rather than animals or plants developed in Japan
- Master Blaster
Jul 10, 2025
Asahi hopes you like Like Milk more than you like milk or other drinks like milk.
- Japan
- (Asahi • Beverages • drinks • food allergy • health • lactose-free • Like Milk • milk • substitute • vegan)
Tokyo ramen restaurant apologizes for trying to set too-strict time limit for eating its noodles
- Casey Baseel
Jul 10, 2025
Ramen Jiro regrets giving the impression that it’s an intimidating place to eat at.
- Japan
- (COK • etiquette • food • manners • Noodles • ramen jiro • restaurants)
Strongest-ever Dodekamin energy drink approved by Japan’s Home Economics Dragon
- Master Blaster
Jul 10, 2025
Lourd Leger likes it! He really likes it!
- Japan
- (Dodekamin • dragons • drinks • energy drinks • home economics • Home Economics Dragon • Kateika no Dragon • Lourd Leger • the strongest I even thought of)
Japanese-style strawberry sandwiches win mainstream fans in U.K., but aren’t quite like the originals
- Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2025
Sandwiches are a sell-out hit with a few key differences from how they’re made in Japan.
- Japan, UK
- (food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • Marks & Spencer • sandwiches • strawberries • strawberry sandwiches • sweets • U.K.)
Japanese airlines offer discounted fares to international tourists
- Oona McGee
Jul 9, 2025
JAL and ANA have surprising deals that allow you to see more of Japan while saving time and money.
- Japan
- (Air travel • airplanes • ANA • cheap flights • cheap travel • domestic flights • domestic travel • flights • JAL • Japan Airlines • news • tourism • travel)
Osaka Lover Takoyaki Danish Bread is this week’s weird Japanese must-try food
- Oona McGee
Jul 9, 2025
A sweet Danish that tastes like octopus balls.
- Japan
- (COK • Danish • food • Grand Marble • Japanese food • Japanese street food • local specialties • Marble Danish • octopus balls • Osaka • Osaka specialties • review • SNJO • specialty food • sweets • takoyaki • taste test • weird • weird food)
One of the coolest restaurants in Tokyo isn’t actually always in Tokyo — Dining on the Tokyo Restaurant Bus
- Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2025
We hop on the open-air mobile restaurant for dinner, drinks, and some of the Tokyo area’s most unique night views.
- Japan
- (beautiful • buses • COK • cool • foods • kawasaki • Kawasaki factories • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel • Willer • Willer Express)
Do we say yay or nay to the additive-free rice balls that can last 100 days at room temperature?
- Krista Rogers
Jul 9, 2025
We try all five flavors of the “Hyakunigiri” Kyoto steak restaurant collaborative product to see if they’ll really rice up our lives.
- Japan
- (COK • disaster preparedness • emergency food • emergency rations • hyakunigiri • Hyakushokuya • Kyoto • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)
Game of Jenga filled with high-grade whiskey goes on sale in Japan for nearly 2 million yen
- Master Blaster
Jul 9, 2025
You take a shot from the bottom and put it on top.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bottlers • business • Janga • Jenga • Whiskey • Zeus Janga Japanese Whiskey 25 Years)
Yoshinoya’s new ramen doesn’t smell like it tastes【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2025
We head to the beef bowl king to try their first attempt at beef mazesoba.
- Japan
- (beef • beef bowls • COK • food • mazesoba • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)
60th Anniversary Sanrio Exhibition opens this month to celebrate the Japanese culture of cute
- Krista Rogers
Jul 8, 2025
“The Beginning of Kawaii” exhibition explores the backstories of famous Sanrio characters and more.
- Japan
- (anniversary • COK • cute • exhibition • exhibitions • Hello Kitty • Ibaraki • mascot • mascot characters • Sanrio)
Soon you’ll be able to spend the night in a convenience store parking lot when traveling in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2025
Lawson convenience stores adding car camping program at select locations.
- Japan
- (camping • cars • Chiba • convenience stores • cool • crazy • hotels • Lawson • tourism • travel • weird)
Rental grandma service growing in Japan, can help cook or break up with boyfriends
- Master Blaster
Jul 8, 2025
Get a grandma delivered right to your door.
- Japan
- (aging population • crazy • grandmothers • obaachan • OK Obaachan • rental grandma • rental service • seniors • society • weird)
Lucifers Japanese street gang holds official disbanding ceremony inside police station
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2025
Now-former gangsters promise to stop raising hell.
Haruhi Suzumiya makes surprise return with brand new song, anime video on very special day【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2025
“Did we keep you waiting?”
- Japan
- (anime • Haruhi Suzumiya • light novels • manga • music • Tanabata • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Two Americans decide to hike Mt. Fuji before trails open, both need rescues on back-to-back days
- Casey Baseel
Jul 7, 2025
In separate instances, man in sandals and woman who’d never been to Mt. Fuji before both require emergency assistance to get off Japan’s tallest mountain.
- Japan
- (COK • hiking • Mountains • Mt Fuji hiking • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji trails • outdoors • rescue)
We build a snake house for the rat snake living in our cheap country home【SoraHouse】
- Master Blaster
Jul 7, 2025
Everyone deserves a home.
- Japan
- (attics • DIY • flower pots • Go Hatori • Japanese rat snake • rural life • snake houses • snakes • SoraHouse)
Japan Super Budget Dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Saizeriya?
- Elliot Hale
Jul 7, 2025
Eleven locals showcase their idea of the most satisfying meal at one of Japan’s cheapest restaurants.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • cheap food • COK • drinks • family restaurant • family restaurants • food • Italian food • Japan super budget dining • restaurants • Saizeriya • SNJO • sweets)
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- First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
- Godzilla becomes a Japanese randoseru backpack, as do two of his greatest rivals [Photos]
- Japan’s free stock image site of muscular men doing whimsical and mundane things reveals rankings
- Thief mails 460 million-yen watch back to Tokyo store he stole it from, says “I’m sorry”
- This is Japan’s best cycling course, but is it fun for bicycling beginners too?
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Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Godzilla becomes a Japanese randoseru backpack, as do two of his greatest rivals [Photos]
First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
Japan’s free stock image site of muscular men doing whimsical and mundane things reveals rankings
This is Japan’s best cycling course, but is it fun for bicycling beginners too?
Mr. Sato searches for the mysterious new wall of fortune in Tokyo
Japanese government announces criteria for creating backup capital of Japan
Starbucks Japan releases now Tokyo Reserve Roastery Christmas drinkware collection [Photos]
Thief mails 460 million-yen watch back to Tokyo store he stole it from, says “I’m sorry”
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- Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America- Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Life-size Monster Hunter dragon statues to be built at Japanese shopping mall
Studio Ghibli homeware brand’s faux oil lamp brings light, smiles, and Kiki’s Jiji to your home
Modern exosuits are opening up ancient Japanese castle climbs to everyone
Starbucks Japan unveils new Christmas goods for 2026, with exclusive holiday surprises
Evangelion announces collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe
Starbucks Japan releases “Let’s Par-TEA!” Frappuccino and drinks for the holiday season
Cold Stone is closing its final branch in all of east Japan, but it’s going down singing
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Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia- Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan- Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
What’s it like to stay in a Japanese container hotel?
Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown- Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
Yearly
Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa
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