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Bathe in the soothing golden waters of the Bathtime Manneken Pis yellow water gun kit

• Master Blaster
  Oct 19, 2021
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Not into golden showers? How about a golden bath?

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• Japan
• (art • bath salts • bath toy • Bathtime Manneken Pis • Manneken Pis • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO)

TeamLab collaborates with vegan ramen shop, creates the most photogenic noodle spot in Tokyo

• Katie Pask
  Oct 14, 2021

Need some stunning digital art with your plant-based vegan ramen? We’ve got just the place for you!

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• Japan
• (art • art instillation • beautiful • food • plant-based • ramen • restaurants • TeamLab • TeamLab Planets • teamLabo • technology • Tokyo • vegan • vegan ramen)

Japanese sugar artist astounds fans with edible robot from Laputa: Castle in the Sky【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 10, 2021

A very sweet take on a classic Studio Ghibli anime film. 

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• Japan
• (anime • art • beautiful • Castle in the Sky • cookies • cool • Ghibli • Laputa • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • Laputian robot • robots • Studio Ghibli • sugar • sweets • videos • Whip Sugar)

Nothing is more relaxing than watching this Japanese artist drawing with Daiso crayons【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 8, 2021

“Let’s overcome these barriers” says Shibasaki, who just might be everyone’s kind and cool Japanese art uncle.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • art • cool • crayons • Daiso • video)

Manga artist shares a genius-level trick to take the headache out of drawing interior scenes

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 30, 2021

A new perspective to solve a challenging problem.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • clever • illustration • life hacks • manga)

We make a gorgeous wooden art display piece out of Hokusai’s Great Wave

• Katy Kelly
  Sep 27, 2021

Hokusai’s Great Wave has gone from woodblock to art sensation to a wooden art display piece.

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• Japan
• (art • arts and crafts • beautiful • COK • cool • craft kit • crafts • Great Wave • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • natural • SNJO • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Own the lighter side of ukiyo-e with a zodiac chimera and weird tiger-stone items by Felissimo

• Master Blaster
  Sep 27, 2021

Let a little classical absurdity into your life.

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• Japan
• (53 Parallels of Tokaido • art • Chinese zodiac • Felissimo • torakoishi • ukiyo-e • Utagawa Kuniyoshi • woodblock prints)

Reversible Destiny Lofts needs your help to protect its destiny during coronavirus pandemic

• Oona McGee
  Sep 21, 2021

Architectural landmark in Tokyo faces a shaky future.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • apartments • architecture • art • COK • cool • crowdfunding • demolition • history • japanese architecture • Mitaka • preservation • Reversible Destiny Lofts • Tokyo • travel)

Squish, pop, and roll your way through Tokyo’s new ginormous bubble-wrap play park

• Katy Kelly
  Sep 17, 2021

What’s better than popping bubble wrap? A whole room of oversized bubble wrap.

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• Japan
• (art • bubble wrap • children • cute • day out • family • kids • museum • play spaces • Play! Park • Play! Park and Museum • playroom • Tachikawa • Tachikawa City)

Anime character art doesn’t age, but it sure did change for these characters

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 28, 2021

Japanese anime Twitter takes a look back at characters who have been around so long you might not recognize them in their original forms.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • character design • Doraemon • Fruits Basket • Gegege no Kitaro • Higurashi no Naku Koro ni • Mobile Suit Gundam • One Piece • Sailor Moon)

Breathtaking pixel art video shows 100 years of Japanese work culture changes【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 27, 2021

From the birth of salarymen to the rise of the company warrior and the new normal.

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• Japan
• (art • beautiful • cool • culture • history • pixel art • Salaryman • society • video • working in Japan)

There’s a shrine and strange scene waiting for you at the top of this Japanese train station

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 19, 2021

Before you hop on the train out of Fukuoka’s Hakata Station, visit the kids of good fortune in their shrine in the sky.

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• Japan
• (art • cool • Fukuoka • hakata station • Sento-kun • shrines • SNJO • stations • trains • travel • weird)

7 Japanese restaurant chains you can wear right now

• Oona McGee
  Aug 18, 2021

Takoyaki, ramen, and gyoza chains take over the fashion world with limited-edition collaborations.

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• Japan
• (art • Chinese restaurants • cool • design • fashion • gyoza • Gyoza No Ohsho • Japanese style • Journal Standard • limited edition • ramen • takoyaki • Tenka Ippin • Tsukiji Gindako • Tully's)

Celebrate famous works of art AND cats with these adorably clever “Cats in Art” capsule toys

• Dale Roll
  Aug 17, 2021

Collect all five and create your own “Nyanko Museum!”

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• Japan
• (art • Bandai • capsule toys • cats • COK • culture • cute • figures • funny • gachapon • Japanese paintings • paintings • SNJO • vending machine toys)

New Uniqlo x Pokémon collection coming to Japan this month!

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2021

Acclaimed London and New York artists put a new spin on some of our favourite pocket monsters.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • artists • cute • design • fashion • graphic T-shirts • James Jarvis • Meguru Yamaguchi • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • shirts • t-shirts • Uniqlo • UT • video games)

Asics Ukiyo-e x Manga sneakers combine modern and traditional Japan for Tokyo Marathon 2021

• Oona McGee
  Aug 13, 2021

When Mt Fuji and comic book scripts collide. 

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• Japan
• (art • ASICS • cool • design • fashion • hokusai • Japanese style • Katsushika Hokusai • limited edition • manga • running • shoes • sneakers • Tokyo Marathon 2021 • ukiyo-e)

“World’s most spacious public toilet” baffles the mind in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 10, 2021

See-through garden lavatory is one of the most unusual ways to relieve the call of nature.

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• Japan
• (architect • art • beautiful • Chiba • COK • cool • design • gardens • Japanese toilets • nature • public toilets • SNJO • Sou Fujimoto • toilet • Toilets • travel • unusual • weird)

Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Pumpkin washed away during typhoon in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 9, 2021

Naoshima’s famous art installation badly damaged after unexpected journey out to sea.

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• Japan
• (art • art installation • Naoshima • news • pumpkins • sea • Seto Inland Sea • Typhoon Lupit • typhoons • weather • Yayoi Kusama • yellow pumpkin)

Famous manga artist gives out advice on how to draw breasts to celebrate Boob Day

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 3, 2021

Fairy Tail’s Hiro Mashima wanted to make sure his fans learned a useful skill this Oppai Day.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • Edens Zero • Fairy Tail • Hiro Mashima • illustration • manga)

How big (small?) is the smallest Great Buddha statue in Japan? Let’s visit and find out【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 1, 2021

We’re not quite sure what to expect when we head out on a day trip from Tokyo to see the Great Buddha of Kamagaya.

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• Japan
• (art • COK • cool • culture • funny • Great Buddha • history • Kamagaya • SNJO • statues • travel)

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  3. Beautiful Totoro bonsai figure needs no watering, makes soothing rain showers whenever you want
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  8. Japan’s new beer glass is designed to force you to drink…water [Video]
  9. Tired of city life? Try out Japanese rural life for a few days on an active volcano in Kagoshima
  10. Studio Ghibli unveils new finger puppets featuring anime characters from My Neighbour Totoro

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  1. Pokémon Center Online designates first Pokémon items that will require Japanese ID card to buy
  2. Japanese toilet aims to attract foreign tourists but not everybody is happy about it
  3. Japanese vending machine sells freshly squeezed lemon juice with a futuristic light show
  4. New Japanese vending machine at Shinkansen station sells cups of ice on platform
  5. Air-conditioned dress shirts arrive in Japan to save working professionals from sweltering heat
  6. Anime fan in Japan arrested for ordering and cancelling over 4.3 billion yen in anime merch
  7. 7-Eleven Japan adds new chocolate fruit gummies to its sweets range, but are they worth the hype?
  8. Starbucks Japan teams up with Traveler’s Company for new stationery and goods collection
  9. Tokyo’s newest viral dessert is like a Japanese parfait inside a bread bun [Taste test]
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  1. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
  2. Japan now has human refrigerators inspired by Japanese vending machines
  3. Hatsune Miku collaborates with Hokusai’s art in new Vocaloid ukiyo-e illustration series [Pics]
  4. New Shinkansen luggage drop-off system begins in Japan, making train travel even easier
  5. Studio Ghibli releases anime T-shirts that pay homage to one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most personal films
  6. Air-conditioned dress shirts arrive in Japan to save working professionals from sweltering heat
  7. Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
  8. Japanese Shinkansen becomes an overnight hotel for three nights this summer
  9. Cup Noodle unveils first-ever cold-water instant ramen in Japan
  10. Pokémon Center Online designates first Pokémon items that will require Japanese ID card to buy

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
  2. Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
  3. Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
  4. Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
  5. Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
  6. Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
  7. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
  8. Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
  9. Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
  10. Put sesame oil in your coffee? Japanese maker says it’s the best way to start your day【Taste test】

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