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From Tokyo to Hokkaido for under 50 bucks in train tickets–Part 2 of our Japanese rail voyage

Casey Baseel
Sep 14, 2018
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The conclusion of our slow-life adventure to Japan’s northernmost prefecture with trains, hot springs, and so muh delicious seafood.

Japan
(awesome • COK • cool • deals • Hokkaido • Japan Railways • Seishun 18 Ticket • SNOJ • Tohoku • trains • travel)

There’s a cool surprise waiting on the platform of Nakano Station, Tokyo’s other otaku paradise

Casey Baseel
Sep 11, 2018

Got some leftover change after a day of pop culture treasure-hunting? Then this JR station has a vending machine you’ll want to check out.

Japan
(COK • cool • figures • gacha gacha • Nakano • SNOJ • toys • trains • vending machines • weird)

Gorgeous sheets of Japanese edible color will make your next bento project look incredible【Pics】

Casey Baseel
Sep 9, 2018

They’re also a fun way to trick your kids into eating something healthy.

Japan
(beautiful • bento • character bento • cooking • cool • food • kamaboko • kyara-ben)

If this adorable Shiba dog can learn to speak a word in Japanese (and he has), so can you【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 9, 2018

Yeah, yeah, people say Japanese is a hard language to learn. But Beni shows that even a humble pooch can pick up some vocabulary.

Japan
(animals • awesome • cool • cute • dogs • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • pets • Shiba Inu • video)

How to be a karaoke master: Drop the mic, and pick up a saxophone instead【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2018

College student sets national karaoke quality record by tricking the machine with the sounds of his horn.

Japan
(awesome • cool • karaoke • music • saxaphone • singing • video)

New photo app turns you, or Mr. Sato, into a sparklingly handsome shojo manga dreamboat【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2018

From wannabe gangster to would-be 2-D heartthrob in just seconds.
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Internet, Japan
(anime • apps • cool • crazy • manga • Mr. Sato • photos)

Nintendo fans make amazing Luigi’s Mansion AR game by tinkering with Nintendo Labo【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2018

If Nintendo won’t make a sequel, you can make one yourself, and turn your home into a haunted house, for just a few bucks.

Japan
(AR • augmented reality • awesome • cool • luigi's mansion • nintendo • Nintendo Labo • nintendo switch • video • video games)

Metal Gear Solid is now real with awesome “real infiltration game” opening in Tokyo【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2018

Players can use cardboard boxes, Snake’s patented hold-up move to outwit armed human guards.

Japan
(awesome • cool • escape games • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear Solid • real escape games • shinjuku • video • video games)

This retro-cool Japanese sleeper train is now a super-cheap hostel right in downtown Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2018

After carrying passengers to Hokkaido, the Hokutosei is now taking guests to slumberland with a great location and special beer.

Japan
(beer • COK • cool • hostels • hotels • sleeper trains • SNOJ • Tokyo • trains • travel)

Student gets a huge surprise when his teachers finds out he doodled anime’s Naruto on his report

Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2018

When a student’s love of anime pops up during school time, some teachers would be mad, but this one decided to be awesome instead.

Japan
(anime • awesome • cool • fan art • funny • manga • Naruto • schools • Teachers)

Who knew that Kumamoto Castle was a Transformer hiding in plain sight all this time?

Krista Rogers
Sep 1, 2018

Kumamoto Castle may be more than meets the eye.

Japan
(awesome • castles • cool • earthquake • funny • Kumamoto • Kumamoto Castle • robots • Transfomers • twitter)

Here’s what happens when an employee of Final Fantasy’s publisher starts his own Tokyo café

Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2018

Chamber of Raven would be a cool video game stage, but instead it’s an amazing real-world restaurant.

Japan
(cafes • cool • Final Fantasy • restaurants • Square Enix • Tokyo)

Ridiculously buff cat has the bodybuilder physique of dreams, sparks jealousy in netizens’ hearts

Dale Roll
Sep 1, 2018

“What could that be out…*flexes*…there?”

Japan
(animals • bodybuilding • cats • cool • funny • Japanese cats • muscles • pets)

Food fight(ers)! Japanese artist turns food samples into fantastic instant noodle samurai

Richard Simmonds
Sep 1, 2018

These plastic warriors are trawling for a brawling, cruising for a bruising, and sampling for a trampling.

Japan
(art • cool • Donbei • funny • instant noodles • Nissin • Noodles • samurai • soba • udon • weird)

JoJo’s bizarrely awesome Tokyo anime mural hides characters in its sound effects【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

Anime serious famous for its dramatic sound effects and fashionable heroes makes one out of the other with cool and clever artwork trick.

Japan
(ads • anime • art • awesome • clever • cool • Jojo's Bizzare Adventure • manga • Shinjuku Station)

Awesome Japanese elementary school teacher rewards kids who use independent learning on his tests

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

Learned everything covered in class? You get 100 percent. Learned more than what was covered in class? Then you get a bonus.

Japan
(cool • education • Japanese language • kanji • kids • linguistic • Teachers)

“Your 20s are your tutorial mode.” — Japanese dad likens each decade of life to a video game stage

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2018

From download to post-boss content, loving dad shares his mature wisdom in a way that’s easy for his much younger son to relate to.

Japan
(COK • cool • dads • moving • parents • touching • video games)

Manga teaches how to fall asleep in just 10 minutes with near-absolute certainty

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2018

Six simple steps to slumber require no breathing apparatuses, hard liquor, or any other sleep aids.

Japan
(clever • cool • health • life hacks • manga • sleep • twitter)

USJ hotel’s horror-themed room is back, ensures customers won’t have a good night’s sleep

Koh Ruide
Aug 30, 2018

How could you when the haunted room is filled with bloodstains, cobwebs, severed limbs, and a hidden switch that’ll whisk you into a nightmare world?