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We try a dish from Japan’s Michelin-starred ramen restaurant…at the convenience store!

Oona McGee
May 31, 2016
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Convenience stores in Japan really do have everything, including a meal from the world’s only Michelin-starred ramen restaurant.

Food & Drink, Japan
(combini • conbini • convenience store • Michelin • Michelin Guide • Noodles • ramen • taste test)

The purr-fect summer gift? Neko Atsume cookies from Lawson convenience stores!

Preston Phro
May 12, 2016

Collect them all…in your stomach!

Cute, Entertainment
(cats • convenience store • food • neko atsume • summer gifts)

How far will 10,000 yen get you (fashionwise) at the convenience store Family Mart?

Master Blaster
Jan 17, 2016

In his ongoing search for the perfect affordable-but-stylish ensemble, our fashion reporter Seiji Nakazawa sets his sights on a major convenience store chain.

Japan
(clothes • convenience store • Family mart • fashion • shopping)

Snack time! Our team list their favorite Japanese convenience store treats

ロケットニュース24
Oct 13, 2015

If you spend any length of time in Japan, you’ll probably find yourself at the convenience store quite a bit. While there are plenty of foods that you might not be accustomed too, there are also plenty that will delight your mouth.

But with the wide range available to you, it may be hard to pick some to start with. So to help you decide, we asked some of our very own writers, all of whom have lived in Japan for years, what their favorite snacks are and compiled this list for your shopping information and drooling pleasure!

Japan
(convenience store • food • japanese snacks • snacks)

Newlyweds on honeymoon in Japan beat up convenience store clerk, get arrested

Casey Baseel
Sep 29, 2015

Although my wife and I have taken several trips together since getting married, we still haven’t gone on an official honeymoon. My old job required me to work weekends and I couldn’t take any time off around the date of our wedding ceremony, so I was back in the office two days after saying “I do.”

As such, my wife and I didn’t get to do the typical newlywed travel activities. You know, things like toasting each other with champagne every night for a week, lounging on the beach and giggling as we call each other Mr. and Mrs. Baseel, or beating the hell out of a convenience store clerk, like the Chinese newlyweds who are not only just married, but were also just arrested in Japan.

China, Japan
(convenience store • crazy • crime • Hokkaido • ice cream • newlyweds • Sapporo)

New citrus-yuzu-salt-flavored Jagariko potato sticks are delicious, cheap, and ultra-limited

Preston Phro
Sep 22, 2015

Calbee’s Jagariko is among the tastiest snacks in Japan, if you ask us. The little cups of potato sticks come in a variety of flavors, including cheese, butter, and salad. There are also some seasonal flavors, like yuzu-shio, or yuzu and salt, available now! If you haven’t tried Jagariko yet, this is definitely a great introduction to one of the best snacks in Japan!

Japan
(convenience store • food • Jagariko • snacks • yuzu)

7-Eleven store manager writes the most sincere, desperate job ad we’ve ever seen

Audrey Akcasu
May 28, 2015

If you are unemployed and living in Japan, we may have found a perfect job for you. No experience is necessary, it’s a pretty safe gig and you won’t have to do anything too difficult. You will, however, be a savior, a hero, and a knight in shining armor for one overworked, stressed-out, and understaffed, 7-Eleven store manager in Tokyo.

Japan
(7-Eleven • conbini • convenience store • funny • want ad • work)

Woman arrested for pocketing change worth US$370, claims she “didn’t notice”

Krista Rogers
May 26, 2015

On May 21, police in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture arrested a woman on swindling charges after the cashier at a local store erroneously handed her an extra 45,000 yen (US$370) in change. The woman is denying the charges, claiming that she simply “didn’t notice” the large amount of cash she received in the transaction.

Japan
(convenience store • Ishinomaki • Miyagi • police • swindling)

Conbini-talk with Mr. Sato: How to make a convenience store snack 100 times more delicious

Master Blaster
Apr 30, 2015

Japan’s convenience store- (conbini) littered landscape is a breeding ground for competition, and with that comes increasingly more delicious food and drink in an increasingly wider variety.

This shouldn’t be news to anyone who lives in Japan, but our self-confessed conbini connoisseur Mr. Sato says he has developed a way to make one of their snacks 100 more delicious than its regularly sold.

Japan
(cigarettes • convenience store • cow tongue • food • Mr. Sato)

How many do you know? 12 delicious foods in Japanese supermarkets and convenience stores

Preston Phro
Jan 26, 2015

When you think of Japanese food, you likely think of sushi, ramen, or udon–all excellent choices! You might even find your mouth watering at thoughts of monjayaki or anko ice cream, but there may be a few that you’re not so familiar with. Today, we’re going to look at 12 lesser-known foods–and what one of our intrepid writers thought about them!

Japan
(convenience store • food • grocery store • Japanese food • taste test)

Nonsensical conbini crime: Incapable clerk vs. drunk guy’s money

Audrey Akcasu
Jan 13, 2015

When you get change after paying for something in cash, do you ever actually count it to make sure you received the right amount? I sure don’t. Maybe I’m just too used to Japan, where the person working the register will count out each bill and the coins in front of you before handing the change over. It’s just a simple measure taken to double-check that the person at the register isn’t short-changing the customer.

Thorough as it may be, it’s not a flawless method, leaving room for human error, like not being able to tell the difference between a 1,000 yen bill and 10,000 yen bill. But really, who would make that mistake?

Apparently a teenager working the register at a convenience store in Nara recently managed to make that very mistake, but instead of short-changing the customer, he ended up giving 46,000 yen (US$390) in change for a 13,000 yen (US$110) purchase. Fishy! Oh and then, the customer got arrested. Fishier!

Japan
(arrest • conbini • convenience store • crime • Nara • stupid)

Kyoto taxi drivers reduce convenience store robberies by 50 percent by doing absolutely nothing

Master Blaster
Jan 2, 2015

Throughout 2014, Kyoto Prefectural Police began an initiative having taxi drivers and late-night convenience stores work together to reduce incidents of armed robbery. Although still early, the program has so far been rousing success, leading to a 48 percent decrease in convenience store robberies compared to the previous year. They also get extra points for giving it the cool name of “Midnight Defender Strategy”.

Japan
(convenience store • crime • Kyoto • taxi)

Survey ranks convenience store rice balls – salmon, sea-dwelling poultry & plants steal the show

Philip Kendall
Dec 9, 2014

Known to many in the English-speaking world simply as rice balls, onigiri are as much a part of daily life in Japan as sandwiches are in the West. Although they’re often eaten as snacks or included along with a handful of other items as a packed lunch, for many Japanese onigiri are the ultimate comfort food; something that, no matter which part of the country they find themselves in, they can easily make or pick up from a convenience store.

Of course, store-bought onigiri can never come close to those pressed into shape by someone who knows their way around a rice cooker, but they always hit the spot nevertheless, and hundreds of thousands of these little lumps of savoury goodness are eaten every single day. But what are Japan’s most loved convenience store rice balls? And do tastes vary from chain to chain? Well, according to a recent survey, there are three onigiri fillings that Japan is especially fond of.

Japan
(convenience store • food • Japanese • onigiri • ranking • rice ball)

Store employee uses barcode scanner to defeat knife-wielding robber

Audrey Akcasu
Nov 27, 2014

Being a big city, Osaka falls victim to criminal activity more frequently than the rest of the sleepy countryside surrounding it. But still, the criminals they do have in this “big bad” city, seem to be lacking in… experience? Guts? Commitment?

Back in May we saw the convenience store robber who got outsmarted by a clerk after a series of unfortunate decisions on his part. The other day, another wannabe convenience store robber started his raid out well, but gave up pretty easily after some quick thinking and scolding by the store attendant.

Japan
(convenience store • crime • Osaka • robber)

Digital-age robber epically owned by analog granny at convenience store in Fukuoka

Krista Rogers
Aug 2, 2014

What started off as a basic robbery attempt turned into a mortifying experience for one wannabe robber in Fukuoka Prefecture. Seriously, either the konbini gods were conspiring against him or he met his ultimate match in an old woman, but either way, his attempt at crime was completely foiled thanks to an unusual series of events.

Japan
(convenience store • fail • Fukuoka • old woman • robbery • smartphone)

So, the Dalai Lama walks into a convenience store in rural Japan… 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2014

Do you ever wonder what Teddy Roosevelt’s favorite kind of juice was? It’s hard to imagine the 26th President of the United States having to do anything as trivial as deciding between orange and apple, but after a long, hard day of riding moose and judo-tossing William Howard Taft, no amount of influence and respect is going to keep you from getting thirsty, and it’s a choice that has to be made.

But while the late Teddy’s fruit nectar preferences may be lost to antiquity, we can now say for certain which brand of tea the Dalai Lama reaches for when he visits a Japanese convenience store.

Japan
(convenience store • culture • Dalai Lama • funny • religeon)

I need gum, milk, and a verse of “Let It Go”: Special karaoke convenience store to open

Philip Kendall
Apr 9, 2014

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been buying beer, bread, or ice-cream at my local conbini and thought to myself, “If only I could scream a few lines of verse into a microphone without having to leave the building.” In the past, the closest I could ever get to combining convenience store shopping with singing was choosing karaoke booths located immediately next door to a 7-Eleven, but now all that is about to change.

In a special collaboration between Japan’s third-largest convenience store chain FamilyMart and nationwide operator Karaoke Club DAM, a one-of-a-kind conbini x karoke parlour will open its doors on April 17 in Tokyo.

Yes, thanks to Japan you can now shop and sing all in the same place.

Japan
(convenience store • Familymart • karaoke • music • shopping)

Foreigners love Japanese conbini so much they made a song about them!

Cara Clegg
Feb 27, 2014

Have you ever loved something so much, you just had to shout it out to the whole world? Well these guys certainly know that feeling. A group of foreigners created this video for the one true love in their lives – Japanese convenience stores.

Japan
(conbini • convenience store • song • video • YouTube)

This week in convenience store bento: Our top 5 new releases

Master Blaster
Jan 15, 2014

Tuesday is known as New Bento Day at major convenience stores across Japan. As we’ve highlighted before, convenience stores in the country put a lot of effort into their ready-to-eat creations. What’s more is they cycle through new flavors on a weekly basis. This can be a double-edged sword as your favorite dish can disappear tragically fast, but you can also count on something equally good coming along as well.

As regular consumers of convenience store bento, the editorial department of RocketNews24 Japan has come together and ranked the top 5 new additions to 7-Eleven, Lawson, and Family Mart for the week of 14 January, 2014. Please refer to it for your own convenient dining pleasure.

Japan
(bento • convenience store • ranking)

We try Häagen-Dazs’ special edition Forêt Noire ice cream found only in convenience stores

Krista Rogers
Jan 7, 2014

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Especially for everyone’s favorite, Häagen-Dazs. Even in the middle of winter, we can find happiness by eating ice cream in a warm room. We were curious what Häagen-Dazs’ new, hard-to-pronounce flavor Forêt Noire tasted like, so we tried it ourselves. Prepare to be tantalized by the following enticing photographs.