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Japan’s 10 most beautiful hydrangea spots to visit【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2025 - Tweet
Grab your umbrellas and get ready to see the silver/blue/purple/pink lining to Japan’s rainy season.
Starbucks Japan releases a Joyful Mango Earl Grey Tea Latte at 7-Eleven
- Oona McGee
Jun 10, 2025
A summer drink that can only be found at select locations.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • chilled cup • COK • convenience store finds • convenience stores • cups • drinks • fruit • Japanese convenience stores • latte • limited edition • mango • mangoes • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • tea)
Japan’s cute/creepy mascot character Myaku-Myaku can now appear in your drinking glass【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2025
You can turn any beverage into the Osaka Expo mascot.
- Japan
- (2025 World Expo • cute • double-wall glasses • drinking glasses • drinks • drinkware • interior • Myaku-Myaku • Osaka Expo • weird • World Expo)
What is kasshayaki, the Japanese street food only one prefecture is lucky enough to love?
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2025
It looks like takoyaki, but this specialty from Shikoku is something else.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Kagawa • kasshayaki • Shikoku • SNJO • street food • takoyaki)
Japanese yokai spirits enter the modern era in Nagoya’s new digital art experience
- Elliot Hale
Jun 10, 2025
Enter a world of eerie beauty full of ancient demons.
- Japan
- (Aichi • art • art exhibition • beautiful • COK • cool • culture • digital art • digital art exhibition • exhibiton • history • Hitohata • Nagoya • yokai)
Ghibli glass mini plates let you admire the studio’s anime food while eating real food【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2025
More than a dozen designs highlight some of anime’s most memorable meals.
- Japan
- (anime • Castle in the Sky • dishware • Donguri Kyowakoku • interior • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • tableware)
This Hakata hotel is worth a little extra thanks to its all-you-can-eat steak breakfast buffet
- Casey Baseel
Jun 9, 2025
Bargains are getting harder to find, but this Fukuoka hotel still feels (and tastes) like a good deal.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • breakfasts • food • Fukuoka • hotels • SNJO • steak • tourism • travel)
Trying to keep our cool with Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated fan and lucky amulet set
- Master Blaster
Jun 9, 2025
The lucky amulet will ensure luck in online shopping, starting after this purchase.
- Japan
- (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • fans • lucky charms • Masanuki Sunakoma • misting fans • Omamori • online shopping • summer)
Miso soup as a full meal developed as the next evolution of the traditional side dish
- Master Blaster
Jun 9, 2025
Soup is good food. It makes a good meal.
- Japan
- (Japanese food • Miso • miso soup • Misobox • Misovation • Nanohana Miso • nutrition • Yamani Miso)
Crazy-big “Bam!” Hunk of Meat Curry returns to Japan’s favorite curry rice chain, price still rising
- Casey Baseel
Jun 9, 2025
This curry rice has so much meat it gets its own sound effect.
- Japan
- (big food • coco ichi • coco ichibanya • Cocoichi • cocoichibanya • COK • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • Hunk of Meat • meat • Nikukai • SNJO)
Support Japan’s real-world Totoro Forest with special Studio Ghibli collection
- Oona McGee
Jun 8, 2025
Huge range of clothing, bags, accessories and stationery help to save the place where Totoro was born.
- Japan
- (anime • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fans • Ghibli • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • Totoro Forest • Totoro Fund)
Japan’s most popular curry rice restaurant chain losing customers as it raises prices
- Casey Baseel
Jun 8, 2025
Ordinarily Japan can’t get enough Cocoichi, but some are saying enough is enough with the price hikes.
- Japan
- (coco ichi • coco ichibanya • Cocoichi • cocoichibanya • COK • curry • curry rice • food • restaurants)
Can we tell the difference between Black Thunder and Black Thunder Excellent chocolate bars?
- Master Blaster
Jun 8, 2025
It doesn’t get any better than this Black Thunder.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • Black Thunder • Black Thunder Excellent • candy • chocolate • COK • food • SNJO • sweets)
Tokyo travel hack: How to enjoy a free sightseeing boat tour around Tokyo Bay
- Oona McGee
Jun 7, 2025
Little-known gem is how locals cruise the city in summer.
- Japan
- (boat tour • boats • ferries • hacks • hidden gems • Japan sightseeing • sightseeing • sightseeing boats • sightseeing spots • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo sightseeing • tourism • travel)
What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Kura Sushi?【Japan Super Budget Dining】
- SoraNews24
Jun 7, 2025
Fish, noodles, and heresy are all on the table as our panel of hngry reporters puts together 10 different meals for 1,000 yen or less.
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Japan super budget dining • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazuhi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi)
Can Japan’s favorite cheap chocolate also be a good craft beer? Taste-testing Black Thunder Stout
- Casey Baseel
Jun 7, 2025
Black Thunder chocolate goes into every can, but does that mean this brew comes out tasty?
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • Black Thunder • Black Thunder Stout • chocolate • COK • craft beer • drinks • food • SNJO • sweets)
8 people arrested for being fake fortune-tellers, as opposed to… real fortune-tellers?
- Master Blaster
Jun 7, 2025
Next bad horoscope I get, I’m pressing charges!
Studio Ghibli umbrellas bring anime joy to Japan’s rainy season
- Oona McGee
Jun 7, 2025
Experience the pitter-patter of raindrops like Totoro in the forest.
- Japan
- (anime • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Howl's Moving Castle • Kiki's Delivery Service • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • rainy season • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • umbrella • umbrellas)
Tokyo to Kyushu by ferry: An epic 21-hour journey on the sea
- Oona McGee
Jun 7, 2025
Join us on the sea less travelled.
One Piece sets sail for Dodger Stadium for One Piece Night pro baseball event and giveaways
- Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2025
Luffy and crew return to the City of Angels this summer.
- Japan
- (anime • baseball • Dodger Stadium • Dodgers • Los Angeles • Major League Baseball • manga • One Piece • sports)
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Recent Posts
- Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
- 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”
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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]
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
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
Thief mails 460 million-yen watch back to Tokyo store he stole it from, says “I’m sorry”
Starbucks Japan releases now Tokyo Reserve Roastery Christmas drinkware collection [Photos]
Weekly
- 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
Monthly
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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