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Japan’s double-decker portable rice cooker/bento maker is better than ever with new version

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 23, 2026
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Now there’s even more to be thankful to Thanko for.

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• (awesome • bento • bento boxes • boxed lunches • clever • COK • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • one-persomn rice cooker • rice • rice cookers • Thanko)

This train station bento boxed lunch shop has been in business for nearly 100 years

• Casey Baseel
  May 9, 2026

Inside Chiba Station, Manyoken is a piece of edible history.

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• (bento • bento boxes • boxed lunches • Chiba • COK • cool • food • old restaurants • pork cutlet • SNJO • stations • taste test • tonkatsu • trains)

Blowfish-shaped fugu bento appears to celebrate Japan’s Blowfish Day [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2026

Yes, fugu can kill you with its poison, but this one might kill us with cuteness.

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• (Awajiya • bento • bento boxes • blowfish • boxed lunches • COK • cute • food • fugu • pufferfish • SNJO • taste test)

Beautiful Totoro bento box mixes classic and modern symbols of Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2025

Two-tier box shows the forest spirit looks adorable even with motifs much older than the Studio Ghibli anime he made his debut in.

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• (anime • bento • bento boxes • boxed lunches • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Studio Ghibli adds acorn-shaped Totoro bento boxes to its anime merchandise shop in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Oct 28, 2025

The next best thing to carrying a sack full of magical acorns. 

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• (acorns • anime • autumn • beautiful • bento • bento boxes • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Lunch fit for a samurai lord: Japanese cafes offers castle bento lunches, sells boxes too【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 7, 2025

Cafe’s location means it knows its customers will be in a samurai mood.

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• (bento • bento boxes • castles • culture • food • history • Katana • museum • restaurants • swords • tableware)

Totoro bento lunch boxes are back just in time for spring picnic and cherry blossom season!【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2025

A variety of lunch boxes featuring the Studio Ghibli star to suit your springtime outdoor dining needs.

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• (anime • bento • bento boxes • Donguri Kyowakoku • food • lunch boxes • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Initial D wet wipe cases and bento boxes drift into Japan, available at Narita Airport too

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2025

Let the Eurobeat intensify as anime’s most famous street racing series helps you stay clean and stay fed.

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• (anime • bento • bento boxes • cars • cool • Hachiroku • Initial D • interior • lunch box • manga • Narita Airport • Trueno)

Street Fighter sushi bento boxes are here so you won’t have to fight on an empty stomach

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 5, 2024

Eye-catching regional sushi gets awesome-looking bento illustrations of video gaming’s martial arts masters.

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• (bento • bento boxes • Chun-Li • cool • food • kakinoha sushi • Nara • persimmons • Street Fighter • Street Fighter 6 • sushi • video games)

Studio Ghibli bento box collections released just in time for hanami sakura-viewing picnics

• Oona McGee
  Feb 6, 2024

Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbour Totoro are here to add anime flair to your lunch this cherry blossom season. 

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• (anime • bento • bento box • bento boxes • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • lunch box • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Two Harry Potter cafes opening in Japan, serving up Gryffindor bento and Hagrid misspelled cakes

• SoraNews24
  Jul 9, 2021

”You’re a Japanese cafe, Harry.”

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• (bento • bento boxes • boxed lunches • cafes • cool • food • Harajuku • Harry Potter • restaurants • themed restaurants)

We try cooking lots of things with Japan’s double-decker one-person bento box-sized rice cooker

• Dale Roll
  Dec 23, 2020

The new version of the popular cooking bento box boasts of cooking other things…but does it really work?

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• (bento box • bento boxes • convenience • cooking • cooking gadgets • food • lunch • rice cooker • Super High-Speed One-Person Bento Box Rice Cooker)

Japan’s one-person bento box-sized rice cooker gets double-decker version that cooks side dishes too

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2020

Because if you’ve got fresh-cooked rice right at your desk, you’re going to want something to go with it right?

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• (awesome • bento • bento boxes • clever • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • rice • rice cookers • Super High-Speed One-Person Bento Box Rice Cooker • Thanko)

Handmade Hayao Miyazaki bento is too cute to eat, great conversation starter during meals

• Koh Ruide
  Feb 18, 2019

Studio Ghibli-themed bento party among friends quickly escalates when someone brought the king along.

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• (bento • bento boxes • cute • Hayao Miyazaki • Japanese Twitter • Studio Ghibli)

Limited edition lucky cat lunch boxes are back, promise to make your food too cute to eat

• Dale Roll
  Feb 2, 2019

The cat-shaped boxes come in three adorable varieties.

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• (bento • bento boxes • cats • cute • delicious • food • lunch boxes)

Celebrate the New Year with a special and limited edition Barbie bento box of New Year foods

• Dale Roll
  Dec 21, 2018

Traditional Japanese New Year’s food now comes in a bright pink limited-edition box, along with a rare Barbie doll! 

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• (Barbie • bento boxes • collectibles • Japanese food • New Year's Eve • osechi • osechi ryori • themed)

Japan’s cat-shaped bento boxes are here to make lunchtime delicious and adorable【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 11, 2017

Each design is modeled after a real-life rescue cat.

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• (bento • bento boxes • cats • food • rescue cats)

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