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A paradise for beer lovers — Yokohama combini has over 300 different kinds of beer for sale
- Katie Pask
Jan 25, 2022 - Tweet
The store is run by a man who “hardly used to drink at all.”
- Japan
- (beer • combini • convenience store • craft beer • craft beers • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird • Yokohama)
This USB device exists solely to warm up rice balls, and honestly, it does a great job
- Dale Roll
Dec 23, 2021
We just wish it could warm up more than one at a time.
- Japan
- (convenience store • device • food • onigiri • portable • rice balls • warm up)
Sapporo man attempts to rob store with lighter, goes as you’d expect
- Master Blaster
Aug 27, 2021
A story on the lighter side of crime.
Family Mart’s Famichiki upsize astounds customers in Japan
- Oona McGee
Aug 20, 2021
Japanese convenience store chain gives customers much more than they bargained for.
- Japan
- (campaigns • chicken • combini • convenience store • convenience stores • Famichiki • Family mart • fast food • food • fried chicken • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • twitter)
Family Mart to celebrate 40th birthday by introducing onigiri with eco-friendly packaging
- Ingrid Tsai
Aug 9, 2021
To a future where we can eat all the onigiri we want and save the environment.
- Japan
- (convenience store • eco-friendly • environmentally friendly • Family mart • mentaiko • onigiri • rice balls • sustainability)
We try 7-Eleven’s newly recreated Pork Ramen and are blown away by its level of perfection
- Dale Roll
Feb 10, 2021
This ready-made, microwavable ramen comes close to something you can get in a restaurant!
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • COK • convenience store • Noodles • pork • ramen • SNJO • taste test)
Charming Cardcaptor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth makeup sets revealed for February release
- Krista Rogers
Feb 2, 2021
Cosmetics will be sold in a lottery-style game at Japanese convenience stores as part of Clamp’s 30th anniversary celebrations.
- Japan
- (anime • Bandai Spirits • campaign • Cardcaptor Sakura • Clamp • Clamp 30th Anniversary • convenience store • cosmetics • lottery • Magic Knight Rayearth • makeup palette • manga • Nakayoshi)
7-Eleven Japan to double the shelf life of their onigiri rice balls
- Krista Rogers
Jan 5, 2021
7-Eleven Japan announces their efforts to dramatically reduce food waste at its stores.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • convenience store • food • food waste • konbini • onigiri • rice balls)
Lawson to post super-temp positions online, let anyone work suddenly-open shifts at stores
- Scott Wilson
Dec 12, 2020
Speedrunning part-time work.
Kyoto man arrested for opening packs of Demon Slayer key chains until finding one he wanted
- Master Blaster
Nov 23, 2020
But who’s the real demon here?
- Japan
- (anime • COK • convenience store • crime • Demon Slayer • key chain • Kyoto • manga • toys • weird)
Fukuoka woman drives through front of convenience store because she really needed to pee
- Master Blaster
Nov 17, 2020
Sometimes, peeing your pants is better.
- Japan
- (car accident • convenience store • crime • driving without a license • drunk driving • Fukuoka • law)
Japanese convenience store customers reimagined as gacha game characters
- Oona McGee
Sep 9, 2020
Working at a konbini is like playing roulette with a gacha game mechanic.
- Japan
- (art • clever • convenience store • customer service • customers • gacha • gacha games • games • illustration • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • mobile game)
Will our reporter’s wish to find the secret Dragon Ball sweets be granted?
- Krista Rogers
Aug 4, 2020
Our reporter visits several Family Mart branches in her quest to unravel the mystery and comes to an important realization in the end.
- Japan
- (Bandai • campaign • convenience store • dessert • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Super • Family mart • food • Goku • konbini • Saya • Shenron)
The Ultimate Battle for Ham Sandwich Supremacy – we rank Japan’s convenience store sandwiches
- Katie Pask
Jul 8, 2020
Who will take the crown in the battle for the top?
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (combini • conveneince stores • convenience store • convenience store food • Family mart • food • funny • ham • Lawson • sandwich • sandwiches • Seven Eleven)
Convenience store fried chicken gets approved as food for Japanese space program
- Master Blaster
Jun 11, 2020
Ground control to Major Tom… Take your Karaage-kun and put your helmet oooonnnnn…
- Japan
- (convenience store • food • fried chicken • JAXA • karaage • karaage kun • Lawson • space • space food)
Will it waffle? We put various Japanese snacks through a waffle iron, just because【SoraKitchen】
- Katy Kelly
May 23, 2020
Is there any food that can’t be improved by turning it into a waffle?
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • convenience store • food • home cooking • Lunch Paffle • Maffle • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNOJ • SoraKitchen • tasty • waffle iron)
Convenience store shopper panicked to find bread section empty, until finding out why
- Master Blaster
Mar 30, 2020
Timing is everything.
Inside the rogue 7-Eleven, a convenience store completely cut off by its company
- Master Blaster
Jan 5, 2020
Is this 7-Eleven just being run by a loose cannon, or is it a sign of bigger problems ahead?
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • business • convenience store • Higashiosaka • Mitoshi Matsumoto • Osaka • SNO)
Soon you can drink your ice cream at Lawson convenience stores throughout Japan
- Krista Rogers
Oct 29, 2019
It’s up to you whether you want to count this new beverage product as a drink or as a dessert.
- Japan
- (beverage • convenience store • drink • konbini • Lawson • new product • soft serve ice cream)
Netizens annoyed that Japan Self-Defense Forces had to announce that aid workers can use restrooms
- Dale Roll
Oct 22, 2019
It should really just be common sense, they say.
- Japan
- (convenience store • convenience stores • disaster relief • disasters • Japan Self-Defense Force • JSDF • society • Typhoon Hagibis • typhoons)
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