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Is a snow day the perfect day to beat the crowds at a popular ramen restaurant? [Experiment]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2026
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Restaurant known for numbingly spicy ramen and intimidatingly long lines lures us out in the Tokyo snow.

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• Japan
• (COK • cold • Kikanbo • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • Restaurant • SNJO • snow)

Massive blizzard creates crazy snow scenes in Sapporo【Photos, videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2022

Heaviest snows in nearly a decade completely stop all train service going into or out of Sapporo Station.

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• Japan
• (COK • cold • crazy • Hokkaido • Sapporo • snow • trains • video)

Does your butt get cold in the winter? Try this butt heater cushion to keep you warm and cozy

• Dale Roll
  Jan 16, 2021

Complete with a cushion and a heat pack, this set is great for the office, at home, or for outdoor events!

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• Japan
• (COK • cold • interior • kairo • pocket warmer • SNJO • warm • warmer • winter)

Japanese media finds out if it’s cold enough to “fry” an egg on the street in Hokkaido

• Master Blaster
  Jan 13, 2021

You never know unless you fry.

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• Japan
• (cold • cold weather • crazy • eggs • freezing • fried egg • Hokkaido • video • weird • winter)

Japan’s coldest prefecture offering frozen river open-air soaking this winter

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 28, 2020

Minus 20-degree weather is the perfect time for an unheated dip, right?

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• Japan
• (baths • COK • cold • crazy • Hokkaido • Obihiro • Tokachi • travel)

How to make your own ramen food sample with real ramen, in just 1.5 hours and -22.6 degrees C

• Dale Roll
  Feb 15, 2020

A Hokkaido resident demonstrates. 

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• Japan
• (cold • crazy • Cup Noodle • food samples • funny • Hokkaido • instant noodles • ramen • video • winter)

Secluded sauna in Hokkaido lets you enjoy steamy sits and ice-water dips in one isolated location

• Scott Wilson
  Feb 8, 2020

A sauna of ice and fire.

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• Japan
• (cold • extreme cold • Hokkaido • Japan travel • sauna • SNJO • travel)

Japan’s first snowfall of the season comes to Hokkaido before September ends【Video, photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 20, 2019

Snow falls in Hokkaido before Tokyo even needs to get out its fall fashions.

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• Japan
• (cold • Daisetsuzan National Park • Hokkaido • snow • weather)

Hokkaido police searching for naked man in glasses who groped woman in sub-zero weather

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2019

Lack of common decency and common sense lead to unusual attack in Sapporo.

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• Japan
• (COK • cold • crazy • crime • gropers • Hokkaido • Sapporo)

Japanese news crew “faking” visuals for on-site report gets caught by local, laughed at online

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 13, 2018

Public broadcaster NHK chose a strange way to show the “waist-deep snow” of this hot spring town in northern Japan.
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• Japan
• (Aomori • cold • crazy • funny • NHK • snow • weird • winter)

Amazing winter photos of university on Japan’s northern island make us want to go back to school

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 27, 2018

Winter comes early to Hokkaido and turns one of Japan’s most respected schools into an otherworldly wonderland.

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• Japan
• (awesome • beautiful • cold • Hokkaido • Hokkaido University • photography • photos • Sapporo • snow • winter)

Tokyo too hot for you? It’s already snowing in Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2018

Winter wonderland makes a surprise appearance in the middle of August during Japan’s hottest summer ever.

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• Japan
• (cold • crazy • Hokkaido • snow • weather)

Domino’s Pizza Japan offers discount to customers in masks for limited time

• Oona McGee
  Feb 27, 2018

The special “mask discount” aims to support people suffering from colds and hay fever at this time of year.

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• Japan
• (cold • Domino's • Domino's Japan • dominos pizza • face masks • hayfever • Japanese service • pizza)

This crazy box of heat from China is how we want to wait out winter

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2018

If you’re looking for us before mid-spring, you’ll know where to find us.

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• China
• (cold • cool • crazy • gadgets • interior • kotatsu • sauna • weird)

Forget snowmen – Japan shows us we should be making snow Pokémon and Totoros instead!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 24, 2018

Or, if you want to be really unique, snow toilets and urinals.

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• Japan
• (anime • cold • Eevee • Pikachu • Pokemon • snow • snowmen • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • winter)

Tokyo’s most famous landmarks are even more beautiful after heaviest snowfall in years【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 24, 2018

Sensoji Temple, the Ghibli Museum, and Tokyo Disneyland are always worth a visit, but especially on snowy days like this.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • cold • Ghibli Museum • photography • Sensoji Temple • snow • Tokyo • Tokyo Disneyland • winter)

We try it out: Does Uniqlo’s HeatTech Ultra Warm work on a motorbike ride in the dead of winter?

• Dale Roll
  Jan 21, 2018

Sure it’d be fine on an afternoon stroll, but how does it hold up against freezing winter winds?

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• Japan
• (cold • fashion • Go Hattori • Uniqlo • warm clothing • winter)

Freezing temperatures in Japan turn inn’s hot spring water to ice

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 15, 2018

Wait, hot springs can freeze?

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• Japan
• (cold • crazy • hot springs • inns • onsen • ryokan • weird • winter)

Body jacket from China protects scooter riders from winter cold, throws dignity out the window

• Koh Ruide
  Dec 6, 2017

Who needs self-respect when you can stay warm?

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• China
• (cold • crazy • fashion • funny • jackets • motorcycles • scooters • warm • weird • winter)

Video of water hose shooting ice cylinders like a machine gun shows how freaky cold Japan can get

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 15, 2017

Spring can’t come soon enough for this employee on morning cleaning duty.

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• Japan
• (cold • crazy • funny • ice • video • winter)

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