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The top 10 shotengai shopping streets in Tokyo【Survey】

• Shannon
  Dec 21, 2022
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From hot tourist spots to residential areas, good finds are everywhere.

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• Japan
• (Ameya Yokocho • Ameyoko • Aoyama • Asakusa • COK • Ikebukuro • Kichijoji • Musashi-Koyama • Nakano • shimokitazawa • shopping • shopping street • shotengai • Togoshi-Ginza • Tokyo • Tokyo shopping)

How hard is it to break Japanese tiles like a karate pro?

• Oona McGee
  Sep 25, 2022

This Tokyo store lets you write a wish on a tile to help make your dreams come true.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • cool • Japanese tiles • karate • Kawara Smash • Kawarana • martial arts • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • things to do • things to do in Tokyo • tiles • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

Calling all fans of anpan! You can try 20 kinds of anpan at this specialty shop in Asakusa

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 13, 2022

We wish that our two favorites were sold in more places, too.

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• Japan
• (An Desu Matoba • anpan • Asakusa • baskery • bread • dessert • melon bread • read bean paste • Seiji Nakazawa • taste test • Tokyo • variation)

Ukrainian sumo wrestlers take refuge in Japan to train for upcoming tournaments

• Shannon
  Jun 28, 2022

What better place for them to train than the birthplace of sumo?

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • Ehime • goodwill • Oita • sightseeing • sports • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • sumo wrestling • training • Ukraine)

Japan’s longest-running okonomiyaki joint and the birthplace of Hiroshima style — We visit both

• Shannon
  Apr 22, 2022

A delicious battle of regional styles results in one full stomach.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • food • Hiroshima • Japanese food • Micchan • okonomiyaki • SNJO • Sometaro • taste test)

Three unusual Japanese curries to celebrate Regional Retort Curry Day

• Oona McGee
  Mar 4, 2022

Plus, find out what it takes to register a special day like this in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • curry • curry day • Curry Land • curry rice • food • instant curry • Japanese curry • Japanese food • Regional Retort Curry Day • retort curry • review • SNJO • taste test)

We spend a night alone in a stylish hotel that is also storage facility for works of art

• Katie Pask
  Feb 5, 2022

Spend a little ‘me-time’ surrounded by beautiful art!

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• Japan
• (art • art museum • Asakusa • beautiful • hotel • hotels in tokyo • KAIKA Tokyo • Kuramae • museum • SNJO • solo • solo travel • Tokyo • tokyo hotels • travel)

346-year-old sweets store closes at Sensoji temple in Asakusa

• Oona McGee
  Aug 14, 2021

Family pulls the final shutter down on one of the oldest Japanese sweets stores in the country.

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• Japan
• (age manju • Asakusa • business • culture • history • Japanese sweets • Sensoji • shops • stores • sweets • temples • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • tradition • traditional Japan)

Ninja dojo opens in Tokyo’s Asakusa, offers courses in shuriken, stealth, and sensory perception

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 6, 2021

Japan Ninja Council wants to give visitors their first steps down the path of the shinobi.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • cool • culture • history • Japan Ninja Council • martial arts • Ninja)

After trying 2,500 different kinds of Japanese curry, these experts have picked the top three

• Dale Roll
  Jul 2, 2021

We get recommendations from someone who’s eaten more than 2,500 kinds of instant curry.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • curry • Curry Land • food • instant curry • Japanese food • SNJO • taste test)

Curry Land: A Mecca in Tokyo for Japanese curry fans

• Oona McGee
  Jun 22, 2021

A unique store filled with curries from around the country, featuring unusual local ingredients.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • beef • COK • curry • Curry Land • curry rice • food • instant curry • Japanese curry • Japanese food • retort curry • review • SNJO • taste test • Tottori • Wagyu)

“The best curry I’ve ever had in my life, ever” comes from a Tokyo curry vending machine

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 16, 2021

There’s a lot of great curry inside this machine, but one in particular is really something special.

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• (Asakusa • COK • curry • food • instant curry • SNJO • vending machines)

Historic Asakusa shopping street in danger as Taito Ward calls for shop evictions

• Dale Roll
  Jun 10, 2021

Decades-old shops kept in families for generations could be shuttered as a result.

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• (Asakusa • Demboin-doori • government • historical buildings • historical sites • shopping • shopping street • small business • souvenirs • Tokyo)

Handsome Japanese rickshaw drivers get hot and steamy in their new music video

• Katie Pask
  Nov 5, 2020

All to promote Japanese culture, of course.

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• (Asakusa • bath • cool • culture • Handsome men • muscles • music • rickshaw • rickshaw drivers • single • Tokyo • tokyo rickshaw • video)

Anime girl holograms to start working as hotel staff at Tokyo’s “Weird Hotel”【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2020

The Idolmaster cast will be waiting to serve travelers.

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• (anime • Asakusa • COK • cool • Henn na Hotel • hotels • idol singers • Idolmaster • Idols • Tokyo • travel • video games • weird)

An interview with one of Japan’s few female executives, the President of Dom Dom Burger

• Dale Roll
  Sep 27, 2020

Shinobu Fujisaki talks of aiming to make Dom Dom everyone’s favorite burger joint.  

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• (Asakusa • COK • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • hamburgers • management • preopening • SNJO)

Asakusa luxury – the best matsutake soba we’ve ever had at a price that can’t be beat

• Katie Pask
  Sep 25, 2020

Enjoy the taste of autumn without breaking the bank!

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • autumn • COK • fall • food • matsutake • mushroom • mushrooms • Noodles • restaurants • seasonal • SNJO • soba • Tokyo)

We try the new Dom Dom Burger with a whole fried crab — best fast food near Sensoji temple

• Oona McGee
  Sep 18, 2020

New burgers mark the grand opening of a new branch at Tokyo’s historic amusement park.

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• (Amusement Parks • Asakusa • burgers • cheeseburgers • crab • DomDom • fast food • hamburgers • Hanayashiki • wow)

Tokyo tourist sites look eerily quiet without tourists 【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2020

Empty streets at Sensoji and Shinjuku have us seeing the capital in a very different light. 

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • beautiful • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Golden Gai • Kabukicho • Sensoji • shinjuku • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • travel • videos • YouTube)

Possibly the cutest hotel rooms in the world – Hello Kitty themed rooms to open in Tokyo

• Katie Pask
  Aug 14, 2020

Mixing traditional Japanese design with modern cuteness!

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • cute • Hello Kitty • hotels • Sanrio • Tokyo • travel)

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