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Candy apple cafe is an oasis in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station dungeon
- Oona McGee
Aug 17, 2024 - Tweet
A new place to revive and replenish your energy levels.
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Does the “World’s best apple pie” in Japan live up to its reputation?
- Oona McGee
Jan 7, 2024
An unlikely location for an acclaimed dessert makes us wonder if it really is as good as they say.
- Japan
- (apple pie • apples • COK • Ebina • food • Seiji Nakazawa • service area • SNJO • sweets • taste test • world's best)
Sliced cheese-style apple pie sheets you cook in toaster oven may be Japan’s latest dessert hit
- Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2023
Bourbon is ready to give us great toast with the flavor of fresh baked apple pie in just three minutes.
Where to find Tokyo’s secret candy apple specialty store
- Oona McGee
May 10, 2023
Toffee apples are the star of the show in this hidden location.
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This Tokyo bakery gives its curry bread a special Aomori ingredient for a one-of-a-kind taste
- Casey Baseel
Jun 22, 2022
The pride of Aomori Prefecture is the star of the show at Little Princess Tokyo.
- Japan
- (apples • bakeries • bread • COK • curry • curry bread • food • Fuji apples • Mr. Sato • SNJO • taste test)
Japan’s new fruit sandwiches turn the concept inside-out, we make them even better【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 28, 2021
They might look kind of funny at first glance, but now we’re laughing all the way to the kitchen.
- Japan
- (Aomori • apples • clever • cooking • cool • food • fruit sandwiches • recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets • weird)
Aomori tourism council makes super-hard tile-matching game using different apple varieties
- Master Blaster
Nov 26, 2021
You better know your Fuji apples from your San Fuji apples.
- Japan
- (Aomori Prefecture • apples • education • Monaca • programming • Puyo Puyo • Sega • tourism • video games)
How to make a sinfully decadent Apple Pie Bar pie out of Japanese grocery store stuff【SoraKitchen】
- Katy Kelly
Sep 12, 2021
We create an apple pie inception that’s as ill-advised as it is appetizing.
- Japan
- (apple pie • apples • COK • cooking • desserts • Gororon Kaniku Apple Pie Bar • Imuraya • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets)
Hello Kitty collab with coffee shop Doutor offering tasty, kawaii treats, limited-edition goods
- Dale Roll
Dec 28, 2020
Drinks and food and goods galore!
- Japan
- (apples • coffee shop • collaboration • collaboration goods • cute • Doutor • drinks • Hello Kitty • limited edition • limited edition flavors • tasty • tea)
Japan is getting apple pie-flavor KitKats with help from a 136-year-old sweets shop
- Casey Baseel
Nov 16, 2020
A treat as Aomori-an as apple pie.
New Tokyo vending machine has nothing but apple juice, but all different kinds from Japan’s north
- Casey Baseel
Oct 12, 2020
A taste tour of Tohoku is waiting inside two Tokyo train stations.
- Japan
- (Aomori • apples • cool • East Japan Railways • Japanese vending machines • JR • JR East • juice • Tokyo Station • Ueno Station • vending machines)
Green Apple Jelly v Baked Pink Apple: The Starbucks Frappuccino showdown we’ve been waiting for
- Oona McGee
Sep 2, 2019
We taste the tart and sweet flavours taking over Starbucks Japan this autumn.
Starbucks Japan adds two different mouth-watering apple Frappuccinos for fall
- Casey Baseel
Aug 23, 2019
Tart or sweet, either way you can’t go wrong with these fall treats.
How do you split two apples for three people using one knife? Japanese Twitter’s violent ideas
- Casey Baseel
May 18, 2018
Many think that violence is the answer, but there’s also a clever, bloodless solution.
Beautiful burger topped with a whole apple is one of trendy Tokyo’s best-looking sandwiches
- Master Blaster
Mar 30, 2018
Sure anyone can plonk an apple on a hamburger, but can they make it taste as sweet as it looks?
- Japan
- (apples • burgers • hamburgers • restaurants • Shibuya • Tokyo • Yoyogi)
Japan’s McCafé gives us new line of drinkable apple desserts and they look perfectly delectable!
- Kay
Oct 19, 2017
Looking for something sweet? Now you can drink an apple dessert at a McCafé in Japan!
Starbucks Japan brings out Shaken Apple Green Tea for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Mar 24, 2017
We try the delectable new drink that’s so exclusive it’s only available in four of the country’s prefectures.
Japan’s love-granting witchcraft apples on sale again just in time for Halloween
- Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2016
Limited quantities, premium pricing, and purportedly magical results.
“Poison Apple” from sacred mountain in Japan is said to grant your wishes this Valentine’s Day
- Oona McGee
Jan 22, 2016
Snow White and the Wicked Queen cosplay is now complete with this specially grown black “poison apple”.
- Japan
- (apples • cool • cosplay • food • magic • Snow White • Valentine's Day • Yamagata)
America! Our Japanese Reporter Approves of Julian Apple Pies, and You Should Too
- Steven
Nov 4, 2012
When travelling to America, most Japanese people usually have one or two “must-eat” foods on their itinerary, the most popular of which are probably hamburger and apple pie.
When our Japanese reporter, Yoshio, visited America last month, he wasted no time in seeking out the former. His haste and curiosity led him to something called the Donut Burger, which, as you might imagine, didn’t go over so well.
Determined not to commit the same mistake with his apple pie, Yoshio had his American acquaintances point him in the direction of the best damn all-American apple pie the country has to offer.
Where did that take him? Check his report below to find out!
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Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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