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Foreign tourists on Shinkansen bullet train break suitcase etiquette, angering local passengers

• SoraNews24
  Aug 19, 2024
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If you’re travelling in Japan, you need to be aware of this rule.

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• Japan
• (bad behavior • bullet train • COK • foreign tourists • Japan Railway • Japanese trains • JR • JR Kyushu • JR Tokai • JR West • luggage rules • manners • oversized luggage • shinkansen • tourists • train etiquette • trains • travel)

Luigi set to star in Family Mart’s latest collab event with exclusive sandwiches and blankets

• Master Blaster
  Aug 19, 2024

Player 2 ready.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Family mart • FamiPay • food • instant noodles • Luigi • nintendo • sandwiches • Super Mario • video games)

Japan’s most charming train: Automated people mover includes facial recognition technology

• Oona McGee
  Aug 19, 2024

The Yamaman Yukarigaoka line combines modern technology with cute analogue details.

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• Japan
• (Aomori • Aomori Prefecture • Bodaiji • COK • Mt. Osore • Osorezan • Saya Togashi • SNJO • temples • tourism • travel)

Ghibli schedule books, beautiful inside and out, are here to help plan your whimsical adventures

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 19, 2024

2025 schedule books include spaces to sort out the rest of 2024 too.

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• Japan
• (anime • Castle in the Sky • Donugri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • Laputa • My Neighbor Totoro • No Face • organizers • schedule books • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Family Mart bartender robot Milly is here to serve you coffee…but not in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 18, 2024

After meeting Milly, we want to take her home with us.

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (coffee • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • drinks • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • robots • SNJO)

Welcome to Hell…Hell’s Dandan Noodles Tenryu in Kanagawa

• Master Blaster
  Aug 18, 2024

We descend into Dandan’s inferno.

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• Japan
• (Atsugi • dandan noodles • food • Hell's Dandan Noodles Tenryu • Jikoku No Dandanmen Tenryu • Kanagawa • ramen • restaurants • spicy food)

Santa Claus is coming to town in a rocket in Japan this summer

• Master Blaster
  Aug 18, 2024

I saw Santa kissing the sky.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • fireworks • Masanuki Sunakoma • Santa Claus • summer • Tonde Santa)

Candy apple cafe is an oasis in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station dungeon

• Oona McGee
  Aug 17, 2024

A new place to revive and replenish your energy levels.

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• Japan
• (apples • cafes • candied apples • candy apples • COK • cool • drinks • fruit • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • shopping • SNJO • stations • sweets • trains)

We got 17 pieces of sushi at just over 2,000 yen at this Fukuoka restaurant

• Shannon
  Aug 17, 2024

Every sushi piece is 110 yen. Every. One.

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• Japan
• (affordable • cheap eats • Fukuoka • Hakata Ferry Terminal • Hakata Toyoichi • sushi • takeout)

The surprising reason natto (fermented soybeans) are hard to swallow for many Japanese surfers

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2024

Surfing can lead to natto allergies, it turns out.

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• Japan
• (COK • fermented soybeans • food • health • jellyfish • natto • science • surfers • surfing • weird)

The best independent fan cosplayers of summer Comiket【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Aug 17, 2024

Over 10,000 fans cosplayed at this year’s summer Comiket, and here are our favorites.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • C104 • COK • Comiket • Comiket 104 • cosplay • cosplayers • Handsome men • manga • SNJO • Summer Comiket • Summer Comiket 2024 • video games)

Scared karate expert breaks haunted house ghost’s jaw, files lawsuit that it wasn’t all his fault

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2024

”But you see, I was drunk at the time!” is an unusual way to justify kicking someone in the face.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • crazy • ghosts • haunted houses • karate • theme parks • weird)

Pikachu and other Pokémon star in airline ANA’s new safety video!【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2024

Please return your seatback to its upright position for takeoffs and landings, Lucario.

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• Japan
• (Air travel • airlines • ANA • anime • manga • Pikachu • Pokemon • tourism • travel • video • video games)

New Famicom game cartridge business card holders from Sega Plaza cause a stir in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2024

Sega serves up Nintendo nostalgia with five classic games, but they won’t be easy to get.

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• Japan
• (business cards • card cases • cool • crane game prixe • famicom • Family Computer • nintendo • Nintendo Lego • Sega • Sega Plaza • Super Mario • Super Mario World • toys • video games)

McDonald’s Japan’s new Pokémon Happy Meal toys are better than ever

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2024

Collection includes a palm-sized Poké Ball we’d happily pay good money for.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • fast food • food • Happy Meal • Happy Meals • Happy Set • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • SNJO • toys • video games)

Japanese restaurant’s ice cream noodles combine sweet cream, onion, and fish stock flavors

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2024

Fuji Soba and Coolish enter into an unexpected alliance in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (Coolish • crazy • food • Fuji Soba • ice cream • Lotte • Noodles • restaurants • soba • sweets • weird)

Leaving everything up to top Tokyo stylist — Mr. Sato’s first haircut in four years blue us away

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2024

We aren’t sure what we were expecting when he told the Shogun “do whatever you think is best,” but we weren’t expecting this.

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• Japan
• (COK • hair salons • hairdo • hairstyle • hairstyling • makeover • Mr. Sato • Shea Aoyama • SNJO • Stylist Sato)

The unusual and surprising ways people in Nagasaki celebrate Obon, the festival of spirits

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2024

One of the few places in Japan where you’ll see families setting off fireworks at the cemetery.

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• Japan
• (ancestor worship • cemetery • COK • culture • fireworks • graves • gravestone • graveyard • holidays • Mariko Ohanabatake • Nagasaki • Obon • SNJO • summer • tradition • travel)

Japan’s two-month Shut-in Pilgrimage – A 1,200-year-old way to deal with a modern issue

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2024

Program helps hikikomori take steps towards reconnecting with the outside world.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • hikikomori • history • mental health • Shikoku • Shikoku Henro • Shikoku Pilgrimage • shut-ins • society)

Amazing ukiyo-e art exhibit gives you the chance to step inside a woodblock print and snap photos

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2024

Traditional and digital artwork combines for unforgettable images.

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• Japan
• (art • art museums • awesome • beautiful • COK • cool • Hitohata • hokusai • museums • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

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