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Totoro embroidered bags and pouches are as fluffy and cute as the Ghibli star himself【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 11, 2025
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Design allows you to go from no Totoros to all the Totoros with a flick of your wrist.

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Pokémon doughnuts appear at Mister Donut, with all-new Pikachu and Foongus

• Oona McGee
  Nov 11, 2025

Find out if these new Pokémon are worth capturing.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cute • diglett • donuts • doughnuts • food • Foongus • manga • Mister Donut • Pikachu • Pokemon • sweets • video games)

Package delivery in Japan may be delayed due to bear risks

• Master Blaster
  Nov 10, 2025

The bears are disrupting our national infrastructure now.

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• Japan
• (animals • bear attacks • bears • delays • Japan Post • Yu-Pack)

Tokyo’s first gourmet choco banana specialty shop is worth stopping in Harajuku for

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 10, 2025

Dip Me Banana elevates the simple snack to something a whole lot more substantial and special.

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• Japan
• (bananas • chcolate • choco bananas • chocolate bananas • COK • food • Harajuku • SNJO • sweets • Takeshita Dori • Takeshita Street)

Never forget that Mister Donut’s super-simple ramen is actually very hard to beat

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 10, 2025

The chain may not be called “Mister Ramen,” but that doesn’t mean they don’t know how to make a really good bowl of noodles.

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• Japan
• (donuts • food • Mister Donut • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

All-you-can-eat lunch buffet for just 850 yen right next to Shinjuku Station

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 10, 2025

Grilled fish, curry, and homemade croquettes make for a shockingly affordable and satisfying meal.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • COK • croquettes • food • food and drinks • izakaya • mapo tofu • Masanuki Sunakoma • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • tabehodai • Tokyo • Yottekiya)

Stay in a hotel in Japan where you can see a UFO

• Oona McGee
  Nov 9, 2025

Alien spacecraft looks even better when lit up at night. 

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• Japan
• (accommodation • aliens • business hotel • cheap stays • Chiba • COK • cool • Famy Inn • hotel • hotels • Japanese hotel • Kaihin Makuhari Station • Makuhari Messe • Masanuki Sunakoma • mysteries • SNJO • tourist sites • travel • UFO • UFO sighting • UFOs)

This beautiful Nara inn was once home to a Living National Treasure

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 9, 2025

Art, history, and high-end dining make for a unique Japanese getaway.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • art • ceramics • COK • culture • hotel • Japanese pottery • Kenkichi Tomimoto • Living National Treasure • Nara • pottery • Restaurant • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Brand-new Pokémon park opens in Japan with larger-than-life-size Lapras【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 9, 2025

Lapras’ latest collaboration with the region it’s an ambassador for is now ready to receive fans and provide squeals of joy.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • cute • Lapras • manga • Miyagi • outdoors • parks • Pokemon • video games)

Tokyo police found our lost wallet, but the story of how they did made us feel empty

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 8, 2025

With no clear answers, it’s up to the wallet’s owner to choose what he wants to believe about the person who had it.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • missing property • missing wallet • moving • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • touching)

Hello Kitty learns sign language in newest friendship with Japanese artist

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 8, 2025

Sign language art-themed Hello Kitty pop up shop opens in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (art • cute • Hello Kitty • japanese sign language • Sanrio • sign language • society)

Hello Kitty and twin sister celebrate birthday at Baskin-Robbins Japan with special merch, sweets

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 8, 2025

One of Kitty-chan’s favorite foods is the inspiration for her birthday sundae.

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• Japan
• (31 • Baskin Robbins • Baskin-Robbins Japan • cute • food • Hello Kitty • ice cream • mimi • Sanrio • SNJO • sweets • Thirty-One)

Japan’s new Pokémon donut treat marks Ditto’s Mister Donut debut!

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 8, 2025

Mister Ditto.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • ditto • donuts • food • manga • Mister Donut • Pokemon • Pokémon donuts • sweets • video games)

Studio Ghibli releases new Ursula’s blanket from Kiki’s Delivery Service

• Oona McGee
  Nov 7, 2025

Wrap yourself up in the warmth of an anime movie. 

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • beautiful • cute • dolls • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • porcelain • porcelain ware • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Real takoyaki is almost impossible to find in Tokyo, but this place has it, our hardliner says

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 7, 2025

The orthodox Osaka style of Japan’s beloved octopus balls is waiting at Jugemu.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese street food • octopus balls • octopus dumplings • restaurants • SNJO • street food • takoyaki • Tokyo)

Real-life Love Live? Japanese high school starting official idol club extracurricular activity

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 7, 2025

School idols will create original songs, hold live performances.

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• Japan
• (COK • extracurricular activities • high schools • idol singers • Idols • music • school clubs • schools • youth)

Tokyo all-you-can-eat senbei deal is perfect for newbies to the world of beloved Japanese snacks

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 7, 2025

Tourist-friendly Shibuya shopping center hosts senbei newcomer-friendly event, and it’s completely free!

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • COK • food • rice crackers • senbei • Shibuya Parco • snacks • SNJO)

Unique inclined elevator in Japan leads to a town that inspired Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away

• Oona McGee
  Nov 6, 2025

Sloping elevator transports you to a magical world in the sky. 

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• Japan
• (Commore • Commore Bridge • Commore Shiotsu • elevators • hidden gem • inclined elevator • SNJO • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • travel • Yamanashi)

Japanese military called in to deal with increasing bear attacks in rural prefectures

• Master Blaster
  Nov 6, 2025

Military is only there to provide logistic support and not take part in any hunting.

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• Japan
• (Akita Prefecture • bear attacks • bears • JGSDF • military • Ministry of Defense • shinjiro koizumi)

The deluxe disappointment and basic brilliance of Japan’s oldest standing soba noodle chain

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 6, 2025

Miyako Soba may not be what we’d expected for the oldest standing soba chain in country, but maybe it should have been.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japan’s oldest • Noodles • oldest in Japan • Osaka • restaurants • SNJO • soba)

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