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Japan has a Ghibli train where you can travel by the sea with Spirited Away’s No Face and Chihiro

• Oona McGee
  May 25, 2024
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Like riding the magical anime seaside train in real life!

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• Japan
• (anime • anime train • COK • cool • Ghibli • Ghibli Exhibition • Japanese trains • Keikyu • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Studio Ghibli Exhibition • Toshio Suzuki • Toshio Suzuki and Ghibli Exhibition • tourism • train • trains • travel)

Studio Ghibli releases new waffle bags for My Neighbour Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service fans

• Oona McGee
  May 24, 2024

New range of pouches and bags is designed to soothe.  

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • pouches • shopping • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Right now’s the best time of year for a ride on Tokyo’s often-forgotten streetcar line【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2024

Beautiful blossoms and a taste of the slow life are waiting on the Arakawa Line.

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• Japan
• (Arakawa Line • beautiful • COK • flowers • roses • SNJO • streetcar • Tokyo • Tokyo Sakura Tram • tourism • trains • travel)

Pizza Hut Japan’s pickled plum pizza is mercilessly aware of what it is【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2024

We try to wrap our head around the “Japanese Margherita” umeboshi pizza.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • pickled plum • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • pizza Margherita • plum • SNJO • taste test • ume • umeboshi • weird)

Japan’s Mister Donut apologizes for selling “Meat Pies” that didn’t contain meat

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2024

Meat pies are a broad category, but there’s not supposed to be much wiggle room on the “meat” part.

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• Japan
• (food • meat • Mister Donut • soy meat • weird)

Japanese spoon puts electrical field in your mouth to trick you into tasting salt, now on sale

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2024

It’s like a party in your mouth, and electricity’s invited!

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • food • health • interior • Kirin • Kirin Holdings • salt • science • spoons • weird)

Japan is changing its yen bills soon, so beware of scam artists, government warns

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2024

New bills go into circulation this summer.

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• Japan
• (fraud • money • scam artists • scams • yen • yen bills)

Studio Ghibli releases giant Totoro plushies in Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 23, 2024

Two Totoros that are as big as their price tags.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime shop • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • GBL • Hayao Miyazaki • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • plush toys • plushies • shopping • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

We went to Shibuya’s swanky Saunas to sweat away all of our troubles

• Shannon
  May 23, 2024

Our reporter shows us how to find serenity in a very busy neighborhood.

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• Japan
• (Katsuki Tanaka • Manga Sadou • relaxation • sauna • saunas • Seiji Nakazawa • Shibuya • Shibuya Saunas • Tokyo)

Domino’s courts controversy by releasing a pineapple crust pizza in Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 23, 2024

People are making their opinions known in the “Pineapple x Pizza Yes or No General Election 2024”.

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• Japan
• (cheese • COK • crazy • Domino's Pizza Japan • dominos pizza • Japanese pizzas • marketing • pineapple • pineapple pizza • pizza • pizzas • tropical • tropical pizza • weird)

Is the two-hour wait for Tokyo’s Yokota Gaijin Burger worth it?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  May 23, 2024

And if you don’t wait two hours, it might be months until you get another chance to try it.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • hamburgers • military base • SNJO • U.S. Military • U.S. military in Japan • Yokota • Yokota Air Base)

Pikachu special kimono plushie is only available one way, hopes to spread love of Japanese chess

• Casey Baseel
  May 23, 2024

Pokémon mascot pays tribute to shogi’s first-ever octuple crown holder.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • Japanese chess • Pikachu • plushies • Pokemon • shogi • video games)

Open-air public toilet at Sensoji temple in Tokyo is waiting to be discovered by foreign tourists

• Oona McGee
  May 23, 2024

Famous Asakusa tourist site has a very public place to pee…for those who know where to find it.

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• Japan
• (architecture • art • Asakusa • COK • cool • Japanese restrooms • Japanese toilets • public restroom • public toilets • restroom • samurai • Sensoji • Sensoji Temple • SNJO • temples • Toilets • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel)

Starbucks Japan unveils new Banana Brulee Frappuccino to save ugly fruit

• Oona McGee
  May 22, 2024

Limited-edition drink and sweets will save three million bananas from the reject bin. 

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• Japan
• (bananas • drinks • environmentally friendly • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • mottainai • mottainai bananas • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • ugly bananas)

Godiva Japan’s new canned cakes are works of art filled with luxuriously rich chocolate

• Krista Rogers
  May 22, 2024

Cake in a can, cans of cake…we don’t care what they’re called as long as we get our spoons into them soon!

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• Japan
• (cake in a can • canned cake • chocolate • dessert • Godiva • rich • sweet)

Studio Ghibli unveils cool Japanese fans for summer

• Oona McGee
  May 22, 2024

No Face and Totoro will keep you looking and feeling cool all summer long!

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • Donguri Kyowakoku • fans • Ghibli • goods • Japanese fans • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • No Face • shop • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • summer • Totoro)

Uniqlo releases T-shirt collaboration with K-pop group Treasure

• Shannon
  May 22, 2024

Six t-shirts for six iconic Treasure songs.

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• Global, Japan, Korea
• (collaboration • fashion collection • Find Your Treasure • Kpop • treasure • tshirts • Uniqlo • Uniqlo UT)

Kanagawa woman arrested for calling police 1,200 times in 8 days, saying “Merry Christmas, Die!”

• Master Blaster
  May 22, 2024

I think she’s confusing Christmas with Easter.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • crime • Kanagawa • law • obstruction of business • phone calls • police)

Mt Fuji Lawson view now blocked by screens, but will it stop bad-mannered tourists?

• SoraNews24
  May 22, 2024

First look at the new screens makes us wonder if this is a good enough deterrent.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Fuji • Instagram • Japanese convenience stores • Lawson • Mt. Fuji • overtourism • social media • TikTok • tourism • tourists • tourists site • travel)

Call of Duty’s Gundam crossover looks really weird (if you can read Japanese)【Pics】【Update】

• Casey Baseel
  May 21, 2024

Human-sized Gundams fighting on the streets of Tokyo aren’t as strange as some of the signage behind them.

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• Japan, USA
• (Activision • anime • call of duty • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 • Gundam • Japanese language • linguistics • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video games • weird)

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  3. Japan’s new matcha vending machines serve freshly prepared matcha in five different strengths
  4. Get the taste of the U.K. in Tokyo with 99 Flakes, meat pies, and Jaffa Cakes
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  8. First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
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  1. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
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  3. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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