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How do you make cosplayers levitate? Put them in a pool, like in these awesome videos 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 19, 2015
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Video showing the making of new PlayStation game’s commercials goes behind the scenes, and under the water, of cosplay.

Japan
(awesome • beautiful • cool • cosplay • Exist Archive • playstation • tri-Ace • video • video games)

The Bat Cave apartment: a unique place to stay in Shibuya, Tokyo

Oona McGee
Dec 18, 2015

Ever wondered where Bruce Wayne would crash during a visit to Tokyo? You’d find him here in the Bat Cave, of course, and now you can stay here too!

Japan
(accommodation • Batman • Comics • cool • DC Comics • hotels • movies • travel)

We visit the awesome new Samurai Museum in Shinjuku【Photos】

Oona McGee
Dec 18, 2015

Experience the samurai spirit first-hand with original swords and armour at the recently opened Samurai Museum.

Japan
(cool • culture • Edo • feudal Japan • history • museums • samurai • shinjuku)

Subliminal messages, coming soon to a bowl of Japanese noodles near you?

Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2015

Japanese Twitter user finds his udon has something to say to him.

Japan
(baseball • cool • food • kishimen • Nagoya • Noodles • subliminal messages • udon)

Japanese fashion company’s knight’s helm knit cap will keep you warm during your winter quests

Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2015

Because things can get pretty chilly between blasts of dragon fire.

Japan
(cool • cosplay • fashion • hats • knights • video games)

How to make open-air dining in winter awesome: Take the kotatsu outside!

Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2015

Ditch the dining room table and sit at a Japanese-style one with a heater, like at this ingenious Tokyo restaurant.

Japan
(clever • cool • kotatsu • restaurants • Tokyo • winter)

Attack on Titan advances to the world of finance with anime Visa credit cards

Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2015

Survey Corps, charge!

Japan
(anime • Attack on Titan • cool • credit cards • manga • visa)

Need a set of samurai armor for your cat or dog? This pet supply shop can help 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Dec 9, 2015

Turn your adorable pet into a noble warrior…who’s still adorable!

Japan
(awesome • cats • cool • cosplay • cute • dogs • pets • samurai)

You can now buy sliced chocolate in Japan—sandwiches will never be the same!

Casey Baseel
Dec 9, 2015

Sliced ham? Sliced cheese? Sorry, but sliced chocolate is about to make everything else you can put on bread seem like chopped liver in comparison.

Japan
(awesome • chocolate • cool • food • sliced chocolate • sweets)

Japanese gamer builds his own custom arcade cabinet full of nostalgic feels 【Video】

Krista Rogers
Dec 8, 2015

If you’ve got the time and dedication, here’s one clever way to recycle your old analog TV monitor!

Japan
(arcade games • cool • DIY • playstation • Sega Saturn • video • video games)

Calbee will have you clawing (literally) for their new cola-flavored chips

Jamie Koide
Dec 5, 2015

Both foreigners and Japanese folks agree, Calbee’s new cola-flavored chips are a big win. But you’ll have to be pretty lucky to get some for yourself!

Japan
(Calbee • Cola • cool • food • Namco • potato chips • UFO catcher)

Never have to deal with tangled earphone cords again with this amazingly effective trick 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 3, 2015

An amazingly simple solution for an extremely aggravating problem.

Japan
(clever • cool • earphones • life hacks • tangle • video)

That’s no moon…it’s a Japanese-style Death Star lantern!

Casey Baseel
Dec 2, 2015

In a short, short time from now, this awesome Star Wars lantern could be in a room very, very close to you.

Internet
(cool • interior • lanterns • movies • Star Trek • Star Wars)

Tokyo looks eerily awesome in the fog 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2015

Or should that be awesomely eerie?

Japan
(awesome • beautiful • cool • fog • photos • Tokyo)

Man doesn’t want to waste money on software, creates brilliant illustrations on Excel instead

Meg Murphy
Nov 27, 2015

What do you do when you want to draw a picture on your computer, but Paint just won’t cut it and you don’t have the money to invest in any software? You use Excel, of course!

Japan
(art • cool • excel • trains)

AI Samurai: The artificially intelligent, armored samurai that will answer all your questions

Preston Phro
Nov 27, 2015

Are you hosting a large event with lots of guests? Maybe it’s time to call in AI Samurai to help with crowd control!

Japan
(AI • AI Samurai • awesome • cool • robots • samurai • SXSW • technology)

New origami-style lamp re-invents the way we think about “do it yourself”

KK Miller
Nov 25, 2015

This lamp folds in so many different ways that it’s like owning a thousand different lamps.

Europe, Internet
(cool • design • folding lamp • interior • origami • Thomas Hick)

How to make sushi that looks like real-life swimming koi fish【Video】

Oona McGee
Nov 24, 2015

Have you ever wanted to make sushi that looks just like a swimming fish? This video shows how to make the stunning dish in your very own kitchen!

Japan
(beautiful • cool • fish • food • rachel and jun • recipes • sushi • video)

37 amazing photographs of the people of old Japan living their daily lives 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Nov 20, 2015

Earlier this month, we looked at a collection of photos taken by the late Kusakabe Kimbei that showed the cityscapes of Japan as they looked in the late 1800s, right before the country’s rapid modernization. But Kimbei didn’t just photograph Japan, he also photographed the Japanese, so today we’re taking another trip back in time, but with a more personal touch, with dozens of photographs that show what daily life was like for the people of Japan generations ago.

Japan
(awseom • beautiful • cool • culture • history • photos)

Japan’s “escape room” games go foreigner-friendly, into the underground

Jessica
Nov 19, 2015

I’m slightly claustrophobic. So you might wonder why I would volunteer to have myself locked into a small room with a bunch of strangers. The truth is that I can’t resist a puzzle.

This is an escape room, an immersive puzzle-solving experience that will test your lateral thinking skills and problem-solving, and for the first time in Japan, it’s being offered in English and Chinese.