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Pikachu-lid Cup Noodle design could be the cutest instant ramen package ever
- Casey Baseel
Aug 3, 2023 - Tweet
Fingers crossed that Pikachu’s ears will be on Cup Noodle lids soon.
- Japan
- (anime • clever • cool • cup noodles • cute • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • Pikachu • Pokemon • ramen • video games)
Cup Noodle releases new Tomica “car” collection
- Oona McGee
Aug 1, 2023
Designed to replicate an open-top vehicle, complete with ingredients on board.
- Japan
- (clever • COK • cool • crazy • Cup Noodle • cup noodles • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • Takara Tomy • tomica • toys)
Awesome rice ball making machine promises perfectly pressed onigiri in just 30 seconds【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 28, 2023
No more crumbly rice balls or singed fingers.
- Japan
- (clever • cooking • cool • food • kitchen gadgets • onigiri • rice balls • Takraa Tomy • Takraa Tomy Arts)
Japan’s brown Lawson convenience store: a unique find in a rural setting
- Oona McGee
Jul 9, 2023
Unusual colour scheme celebrates the local area.
- Japan
- (Akaushi • architecture • clever • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience stores • cool • design • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Kumamoto • Lawson • SNJO • Takashi Harada • travel • Wagyu)
Ghibli Window Wall Art series turns any wall into a portal to an anime wonderland【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 30, 2023
Three beautiful Hayao Miyazaki anime settings to visually connect your home to.
- Japan
- (anime • art • clever • cool • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Kiki's Delivery Service • Porco Rosso • veautiful)
Japanese convenience store Lawson releases light-up sign stand, tote and pouch in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jun 13, 2023
Shut up and take our money!!!
- Japan
- (clever • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience stores • cool • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lawson • lights • merchandise • pouches • tote bags)
Japanese rural airport’s Reluctant Goodbye Phone makes sorrow of parting a little sweeter【Photo】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 5, 2023
Akita welcomes back the Onagori Phone.
OxiClean officially sends detergent supply to Tokyo card shop struggling with sweaty, smelly otaku
- Casey Baseel
May 31, 2023
Even players who don’t go home with a tournament prize will go home with some OxiClean.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • card games • cards • clever • collectible card games • hygiene • otaku • OxiClean • smell • trading cards)
Japanese convenience store ice cream solves plastic-vs.-wooden-spoon dilemma with edible spoons
- Casey Baseel
May 31, 2023
Japan’s favorite convenience store for ice cream may have just invented the best way to eat it.
Smartphone-abstinence cocktail created by Japanese restaurant to put focus on friends over phones
- Casey Baseel
May 27, 2023
Restaurant came up with idea after poll showed majority of people are bothered by dining companions staring at their phones during meals.
- Japan
- (alcohol • beautiful • clever • cocktails • COK • cool • drinks • food • phones • Smartphones • yakiniku)
Japan’s weirdest gadget maker has a new fan just to dry off your legs (and crotch)【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 17, 2023
Thanko has a plan to keep you cool and dry below the waist this summer.
Highway rest stop’s new high-tech trash cans are another reason Japan’s parking areas rule
- Casey Baseel
May 12, 2023
“They’ve taken their trash cans to the next level.”
- Japan
- (cars • clean • clever • COK • cool • driving • highway rest stops • parking areas • rest stops • SNJO • trash • travel)
Clever Cup Noodle-only measuring cup becomes instant ramen lovers’ new most-wanted kitchenware
- Casey Baseel
Apr 29, 2023
Come on, Nissin, we need this.
- Japan
- (clever • cooking • cool • crazy • Cup Noodle • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • kitchenware • Nissin • Noodles • ramen)
Here’s one of the first things you should do if you just moved into a new apartment in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Apr 14, 2023
Sharp idea for spring could be a lifesaver come summer.
- Japan
- (air conditioner • clever • COK • heat • interior • life hacks • Lifehacks • Living in Japan • Sharp)
Japan’s new portable handheld microwave shoots to the top of our cooking gadget wish list
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2023
No cord, and no cold food either.
- Japan
- (awesome • clever • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • microwave • portable • technology)
For you, this is good enough! Appliance maker’s brutally honest ads charm Japan
- Casey Baseel
Mar 27, 2023
Don Quijote isn’t mincing words, and people are loving them for it.
- Japan
- (ads • appliances • clever • COK • Don Quijote • funny • new lifestyle • shin seikatsu • SNJO)
Not in the mood for small talk? Japanese taxis add Silent Mode service, activated with finger tap
- Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2023
Sanwa Kotsu recognizes that not everyone who wants a ride wants a conversation too.
- Japan
- (clever • COK • cool • Sanwa Kotsu • Sanwa Koutsu • taxi • travel • Turtle Taxi)
Turning your cake into an awesome-looking 2-D cake like this is quick and simple【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 13, 2023
When you want to create dessert art, you just need a chocolate pen.
- Japan
- (2-D • cakes • chocolate pen • clever • COK • cooking • cool • food • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets)
The cool way to peel a mandarin, according to a Japanese grandma
- Oona McGee
Dec 14, 2022
Become a mikan master with this neat hack, endorsed by the Japanese government.
- Japan
- (citrus • clever • COK • food • fruit • how to • life hacks • MAFF • mamechishiki • mandarin oranges • mikan • Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries • oranges • peel • peels • satsuma • SNJO • twitter)
With entrance exams looming, “ads that only students can see” appear in Tokyo train stations
- Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2022
To the naked eye, these ads look like gibberish, but students cramming for entrance exams can see through the mystery.
- Japan
- (ads • clever • energy drinks • entrance exams • stations • students • Zone Energy)
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