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Tokyo Station’s ultra-rare cakes look, and taste, like a cup of coffee

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 13, 2025
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Cleverly beautiful tiramisu sweets are only available three days a week.

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• (beautiful • cake • clever • coffee • COK • cool • food • sweets • tiramisu • Tokyo Station)

Mega huge Mega Charizard Pokémon kites fly in the skies of Japan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 12, 2025

Nagasaki even was fun for all fans of the franchise, but especially those who love Charizard’s mega evolution.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • Charizard • cool • kite • manga • Mega Charizard • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • video • video games)

Starbucks Japan unveils the new Soupuccino

• Oona McGee
  Nov 11, 2025

Straddling the line between food and cappuccino.

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• Japan
• (cool • drinks • food • new • soup • Soupuccino • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • truffle • winter)

Stay in a Tokyo hotel with a train driver’s seat in the room

• Oona McGee
  Nov 11, 2025

When you really want to immerse yourself in the world of Japanese trains. 

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• (Ariake • COK • cool • hotels • hotels in Japan • Japanese trains • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • trains • travel • Yurikamome)

Stay in a hotel in Japan where you can see a UFO

• Oona McGee
  Nov 9, 2025

Alien spacecraft looks even better when lit up at night. 

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• Japan
• (accommodation • aliens • business hotel • cheap stays • Chiba • COK • cool • Famy Inn • hotel • hotels • Japanese hotel • Kaihin Makuhari Station • Makuhari Messe • Masanuki Sunakoma • mysteries • SNJO • tourist sites • travel • UFO • UFO sighting • UFOs)

Brand-new Pokémon park opens in Japan with larger-than-life-size Lapras【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 9, 2025

Lapras’ latest collaboration with the region it’s an ambassador for is now ready to receive fans and provide squeals of joy.

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• (anime • awesome • cool • cute • Lapras • manga • Miyagi • outdoors • parks • Pokemon • video games)

Believe it or not, this isn’t a Tokyo vending machine – It’s a secret door to deliciousness

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 4, 2025

Hundreds of people must walk right past this “vending machine” every day without ever suspecting what it really is.

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• Japan
• (Ameya Yokocho • Ameyoko • burgers.SNJO • COK • cool • crazy • food • hamburgers • restaurants • Ueno • weird)

New Kyoto experience package lets you film epic samurai battles with your friends

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 3, 2025

Something a little more action-packed than the typical kimono stroll photo shoot.

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• Japan
• (Arashiyama • awesome • COK • cool • history • Kyoto • photo shoot • samurai • samurai armor)

Starbucks Japan unveils new Christmas goods, drinkware and candles for the 2025 holiday season

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2025

Three never-before-seen candles, in scents inspired by the chain’s tea and coffee blends.

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• (Bearista • candles • Christmas • Christmas 2025 • COK • cool • cups • drinks • drinkware • exclusive • limited edition • mugs • ornaments • Starbucks • Starbucks candle • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • stationery • tumblers)

Japan’s mini VHS anime home video replicas are the newest blast of capsule toy nostalgia【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2025

Classic Clamp anime series has its home video release recreated in mini charm form.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • capsule toys • cassete • Clamp • COK • cool • gachapon • gashapon • Magic Knight Rayearth • manga • Rayearth • SNO • toys • vending machine toys • VHS)

Beautiful vintage Japanese manhole covers being offered for sale by Aichi city【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2025

A chance to own a literal piece of Anjo’s history.

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• Japan
• (art • cool • crazy • culture • manhole covers • manholes • weird)

Tokyo’s upcoming sumo dinner show matches powerful wrestlers with bilingual entertainment

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 25, 2025

It’s a clash of culture, comedy, and cuisine.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • dining • dinner • Ginza • Hirakuza • kaiseki • Restaurant • restaurants • sport • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • The Sumo Hall Hirakuza Osaka • The Sumo Live Restaurant Hirakuza Ginza Tokyo • Tokyo)

Tokyo’s Haneda Airport is adding a giant Godzilla statue to its international terminal

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 24, 2025

World’s largest indoor Godzilla statue will welcome and/or terrify visitors to Japan starting this winter.

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• Japan
• (airports • awesome • cool • crazy • Godzilla • Haneda • Haneda Airport • Haneda Godzilla Global Project • Japan travel • kaiju • movies • tourism • travel • travel.tourism)

Time-slipping travel at a roadside retro spot in northern east Japan【Kita Kanto Brothers】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 23, 2025

The Kita Kanto Brothers make an unexpected detour in Gunma Prefecture.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Gunma • Kanto • Kita Kanto • Kita Kanto Bros. • Kita Kanto Brothers • Masanuki Sunakoma • Noodles • north Kanto • northern Kanto • retro • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • tourism • travel • vending machines)

Japan’s ice hotel, ice wedding chapel, and ice village return to Hokkaido this winter

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 22, 2025

A truly Tomamu travel experience.

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• (beautiful • COK • cool • crazy • Hokkaido • Hoshino Resort • Hoshino Resorts • Hoshino Resorts Tomamu • hotels • ice • snow • Tomamu • tourism • travel)

Tokyo bento boxed lunch shop charges different prices depending on how heavy your laptop is

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 21, 2025

If you’ve got a heavy laptop, it’ll get you a hefty discount at this Tokyo Station pop-up.

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• (bento • boxed lunches • COK • computers • cool • crazy • food • fujitsu • laptops • technology • Tokyo Station • weird)

Japan has vending machines that put protective film on your phone for you — Here’s how to use them

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 20, 2025

Film Labo promises a perfect fit with no stress, no matter how clumsy you are.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • Film Labo • phones • protective film • smartphone film • Smartphones • SNJO • technology • vendiong machines)

What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Denny’s in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 19, 2025

Find out what you should order from the menu at this super popular family restaurant chain.

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • cheap finds • COK • cool • Denny's • Denny's Japan • drinks • family restaurants • food • Japanese food • japanese snacks • Japanese sweets • restaurants • snacks • SNJO • sweets)

Japanese rickshaw drivers turn into athletes for an unforgettable Red Bull showdown

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 19, 2025

The first event of its kind in Japan converts traditional culture into a thrilling new sport of strength and technique.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • culture • Masanuki Sunakoma • Red Bull • Red Bull Rickshaw • rickshaw • rickshaw drivers • rickshaws • SNJO • sports • tokyo rickshaw)

Buddhist monks in Japan preparing to hold funeral service for thousands of stuffed animals, dolls

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 18, 2025

Temple founded centuries ago helps out with unique modern ceremony in Osaka Prefecture.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • dolls • funeral • plushies • stuffed animals • temples • weird)

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