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Tokyo Video Gamers, a new bar with free-to-play arcade games, opens in Akihabara
- Casey Baseel
Aug 23, 2020 - Tweet
Game on and drink up at this Tokyo cafe where the staff are so friendly they’ll fight you.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • alcohol • awesome • cafes • cool • drinks • food • restaurants • Sega • SNK • video games)
Starbucks opens special telecommuting branch in Tokyo’s Ginza neighborhood【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 13, 2020
New branch is more focused on people who go to Starbucks to work than the ones who go there to relax.
- Japan
- (cafes • coffee • cool • Starbucks • telecommuting • teleworking)
We visit Tokyo’s new all-plant-based cafe “Komeda Is □”
- Dale Roll
Jul 21, 2020
Is the new vegetarian-friendly restaurant in Ginza worth checking out?
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • food • Ginza • Komeda Coffee • Komeda Is • restaurants • SNJO • soy • soy milk • Tokyo • vegan • vegetarian • Yuichiro Wasai)
Starbucks revamps cafe in the heart of Tokyo’s Roppongi to create tea-centered haven
- Ingrid Tsai
Jul 4, 2020
A special opportunity for tea enthusiasts to beat the summer heat and try out Starbucks’s newest flavors.
- Japan
- (cafes • Roppongi Hills • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea • Teavana • Tokyo)
Get ready to mimic Kirby by inhaling plate after plate of cute summery food at the new Kirby Café!
- Katy Kelly
Jun 26, 2020
Hiiiiii! Fancy taking a gourmet tour of the tropics with Kirby as your guide? Now you can — and there’s pizza, too!
- Japan
- (adorable • cafes • collaboration goods • cute • food • Hoshi no Kirby • Kirby • Kirby Café • nintendo)
Tasting Starbucks’ Sesame Almond Tofu Frappuccino, the drink you can’t get in Japan or the U.S.
- Casey Baseel
Jun 25, 2020
You can’t get this new treat in Starbucks’ home country or the land of Frappuccino plenty, but we just tried it for ourselves.
- Taiwan
- (almond tofu • annin tofu • cafes • COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • sesame • SNJO • Starbucks • sweets)
Kyoto cafe with unfortunate name, gorgeous sandwiches keeps getting mistaken for e-commerce giant
- Casey Baseel
Jun 24, 2020
If only the owner’s dad had been able to see into the future…
Our reporter investigates the strangely named “shaved ice donburi” at a Tokyo cafe
- Krista Rogers
Jun 16, 2020
“Donburi” usually refers to dishes eaten over a bowl of rice, so how could this concept possibly work?
- Japan
- (cafe • cafes • COK • donburi • kakigori • kakigori-don • Saka no Ue Cafe • shaved ice • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo)
188-year-old Kyoto tea merchant offers beautiful Hydrangea Parfait as nearby temple’s flowers bloom
- Casey Baseel
Jun 5, 2020
As the summer rains and summer flowers return, so too does this special treat.
- Japan
- (beautiful • cafes • COK • food • green tea • hydrangeas • ice cream • Kyoto • matcha • sweets • Uji)
Starbucks Japan reopens with extra measures to prevent coronavirus’ spread
- Dale Roll
May 20, 2020
The coffee giant is ready to serve their beloved Frappucinos again, with some precautionary measures.
- Japan
- (cafes • coffee • coronavirus • COVID-19 • reopening after coronavirus • Starbucks)
New Kyoto green tea dessert drinks join McDonald’s Japan menu with ichigo and shiratama assists
- Casey Baseel
Apr 7, 2020
Matcha McCafé menu tempts us to skip the burgers and double-down on desserts.
- Japan
- (Asahi Soft Drinks • cafes • drinks • fast food • green tea • matcha • McCafe by Barista • McDonald's • shiratama • sweets • Uji)
New Japanese-style Starbucks set to open in Nagano prefecture【Photos】
- Shannon
Mar 26, 2020
If you’re as big of a fan of Starbucks as you are of traditional Japanese aesthetics, mark your maps.
No more tumblers — Starbucks Japan institutes new coronavirus countermeasure policies
- Casey Baseel
Mar 7, 2020
Changes aim to keep both customers and workers safe.
- Japan
- (cafes • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • health • Starbucks)
New cat café Neko Tapi in Kyoto combines bubble tea with beautiful cats!
- Katy Kelly
Feb 23, 2020
Sit, sip, and be soothed by tabby cats and tapioca tea.
- Japan
- (bubble tea • cafes • cat cafe • cats • cute • Instagrammable • Kyoto • mocha • NekoTapi • Shinkyogoku • tapioca • Tapista • trendy)
Skip Starbucks? A super-cheap, semi-secret alternative to a coffeehouse break in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Feb 22, 2020
A private room all to yourself for hours on end, free Wi-Fi, unlimited drinks, and enough space to take a nap, all for less than five bucks.
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • drinks • food • karaoke • Karaoke no Tetsujin • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO)
Tokyo’s Slayers anime cafe: The latest reason to go on a food quest to Akihabara【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2020
Fan-focused food fun is a 30th-birthday party for the fantasy franchise, and also the only restaurant in Japan where you can DRINK jellyfish.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • cafes • COK • food • jellyfish • light novels • Megumi Hayashibara • restaurants • Slayers • SNO • sweets • themed restaurants)
Our ladylike, solo visit to the handsome butler cafe of Tokyo’s Ikebukuro neighborhood【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 14, 2020
Swallowtail offers not just good-looking guys, but an elegant home away from home.
- Japan
- (butler cafes • butlers • cafes • COK • food • Handsome men • Ikebukuro • Natsuki Gojo • restaurants • SNJO • Swallowtail • tea • themed restaurants)
Kit Kat’s crazy new cocoa pod dessert is only available at its Tokyo cafe【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 31, 2020
Mouthwatering dessert uses part of the cocoa pod that most people forget about, but not the Kit Kat Chocolatory chefs.
- Japan
- (cafes • chocolate • COK • cool • crazy • desserts • food • Ginza • Kit Kat • Kit Kat Chocolatory • Kit Kats • sweets)
Japan’s first-ever capybara cat cafe opens in Tokyo
- SoraNews24
Jan 30, 2020
The only cafe in Japan where you can enjoy the company of a capybara, the world’s largest living rodent.
- Japan
- (animal cafes • animals • cafes • capybara • capybaras • cat cafes • cats • COK • cute • food • pets • rescue cat cafe • Tokyo)
Gundam conquers AKB48? Mobile suit cafe closes to expand, may take over idol eatery’s territory
- Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2020
Robot fans applauded elimination of idol “eyesore” next to mecha anime otaku attraction.
- Japan
- (AKB48 • AKB48 Cafe • Akihabara • anime • cafes • Gundam Cafe • idol singers • Idols • restaurants • robots • themed restaurants)
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