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We try an easy, cheesy, Italian-inspired camp meal using instant noodles【Recipe】
We might not wait to go camping to make this again!
- Japan
- (camp food • carbonara • COK • cooking • easy recipe • food • Instant Ramen • Ken Outdoor Cooking • nooldes • ramen • SNJO • SoraKitchen)
Ito En releases drinkable cold ramen in Japan
- Oona McGee
Mar 24, 2023
Green tea specialists want us to drink spicy reimen this summer.
- Japan
- (awesome • canned drinks • cool • crazy • drinks • food • Ito En • Korea • korean food • Korean ramen • Nongshim • Noodles • ramen • reimen • spicy • spicy food • spicy ramen)
Japan’s first made-to-order natto store will make you fermented beans without the putrid smell
- Katie Pask
Mar 23, 2023
Could this be the answer that all natto-nay sayers have been searching for?
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japanese food • Mr. Sato • natto • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)
“Grandpa’s F**k it, Whatever Anything Best 3” gacha is today’s weird capsule machine find
- Oona McGee
Mar 23, 2023
Handwritten note from a Japanese granddad turns out to be heartwarming…and strangely heartbreaking at the same time.
- Japan
- (capsule toy machine • capsule toys • COK • cool • gacha • gacha vending machine • grandfather • grandma • grandpa • grandparents • handwritten notes • Japanese grandmother • Japanese vending machines • lists • notes • SNJO • vending machines • weird)
Could this island actually be the real setting of the legend of Urashima Taro?
- Dale Roll
Mar 23, 2023
There’s a mysticism to this place that really makes it feel like a turtle could guide you to the Dragon King’s Palace.
- Japan
- (Amami Oshima • beautiful • COK • culture • Ikuna Kamezawa • Japan travel • nature • SNJO • travel • turtles • Urashima Taro)
The first restaurant in Japan to serve anmitsu sweets is still in business and still amazing
- Casey Baseel
Mar 23, 2023
Almost a century after they invented the dessert, this Ginza restaurant is stilling serving it.
Does Pizza Hut Japan’s new “Too Much Coriander Pizza” really contain too much coriander?
- Oona McGee
Mar 23, 2023
Whether you know it as coriander, cilantro or pakuchi, this is a very surprising combination.
- Japan
- (cilantro • COK • coriander • Egawa Tasuku • fast food • food • herbs • limited edition • marketing • pakuchi • pizza • Pizza Hut • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)
Kodansha to release popular manga in Japan and USA simultaneously in K Manga this May
- Master Blaster
Mar 23, 2023
The wait is over.
- Japan, USA
- (Attack on Titan • Blue Lock • Chihayafuru • Edens Zero • Ghost in the Shell • K Manga • Kodansha • manga • online manga • rent a girlfriend • Seven Deadly Sins)
Shrine in Japan issues “beautiful woman certificates,” so we went to get one【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2023
A visit to Honjo Ikutsushimajinja in the “land of beautiful women.”
In search of Japan’s largest melon bread with Mr. Sato
- Master Blaster
Mar 22, 2023
Join us as we hunt the monsters of the Japanese bakery scene.
- Japan
- (baked goods • big food • bread • COK • crazy • Deka Melon • food • Lopia • melon bread • Melon Pan • Monster Melon Pan • Mr. Sato • SNJO)
Man in Nagoya can’t be bothered to use dorm bathroom, brings bottles of his pee to work instead
- Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2023
It’s hard to see how his plan was any more convenient.
10 sakura-viewing events to enjoy the Tokyo area’s cherry blossoms in 2023
- Shannon
Mar 22, 2023
You can go day or night — and many of them are free!
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • COK • Ginza • hanami • sakura • sakura season 2023 • Shinjuku Gyoen • Tokyo • Yokohama • Yomiuri Land)
Tokyo ramen restaurant bans customers from watching YouTube videos on their phones while eating
- Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2023
New rule goes into place at restaurant in city’s “ramen battlefield.”
- Japan
- (COK • etiquette • food • manners • ramen • restaurants • Smartphones • society • Takadanobaba)
Starbucks x Snoopy collaboration is coming to Japan for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Mar 22, 2023
New limited-edition range reminds us what happiness is.
- Japan
- (coffee • COK • cool • cups • cute • drinks • drinkware • food • limited edition • mugs • Peanuts • Snoopy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition)
How would Pokémon Scarlet and Violet look with pixel art? Awesome. Japanese fan shows【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 21, 2023
And it’d sound great with the Nintendo DS sound suite too.
- Japan
- (awesome • bitmap • cool • fan art • pixel art • Pokemon • Pokémon Black and White • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet • video • video games)
Shinjuku izakaya’s all-you-can-eat-and-drink plan is one of Tokyo’s best secret cheap eats
- Oona McGee
Mar 21, 2023
Sushi, sashimi, and yakitori galore, but only for diners who know where to find it!
- Japan
- (all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • bars • cheap • cheap eats • cheap food • cheapo news • COK • food review • izakaya • Kabukicho • restaurant reviews • restaurants • review • sashimi • shinjuku • SNJO • sushi • Tokyo • video game • yakitori)
Japanese fast food chain Mos Burger to release fish-free fish burger
- Katie Pask
Mar 21, 2023
Soy Sea Burger joins the line-up of the chain’s animal-free menu.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • fast food • food • Mos Burger • restaurants • SDGs • vegan • vegetarian)
An interview with two Japanese dating service scam sakura【Interview】
- SoraNews24
Mar 21, 2023
Sakura aren’t always such a pure and pretty part of life in Japan.
Pizza Hut adds a “too much coriander” pizza to its lineup in Japan
- Oona McGee
Mar 21, 2023
New limited-time offering said to shock Generation Z.
- Japan
- (cilantro • COK • coriander • fast food • food • herbs • limited edition • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • weird • weird food)
There’s more to do than just look at the flowers at Tokyo’s biggest riverside sakura celebration
- Krista Rogers
Mar 21, 2023
If you’re in Tokyo, take a day to immerse yourself in the Edo period atmosphere during one of these events while enjoying the cherry blossoms.
- Japan
- (boat • cherry blossoms • COK • culture • Edo River • Edogawa River • events • festival • flowers • Fukagawa • hanami • market • Oedo Fukagawa Sakura Festival • outdoor • sakura • schedule • Tokyo)
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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
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