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Black Thunder grab event in Tokyo gets you a fistful of chocolate bars for less than 30 cents

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2025
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How many of these iconic Japanese chocolates can we grab for 40 yen?

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • candy • chocolate • chocolates • cool • events • food • Harajuku • marketing • Shibuya • snacks • sweets • taste test • Tokyo • Yuraku Confectionery)

Space and time get all jumbled up in the Showa-style Cafe de Paris in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Feb 10, 2025

Coffee and sandwiches are all relative.

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• Japan
• (Cafe de Paris • cafes • coffee • coffee shops • COK • cool • food • Hakushaku • Ikebukuro • restaurants • retro • retro cafes • Showa • SNJO • Tokyo)

Initial D wet wipe cases and bento boxes drift into Japan, available at Narita Airport too

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2025

Let the Eurobeat intensify as anime’s most famous street racing series helps you stay clean and stay fed.

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• (anime • bento • bento boxes • cars • cool • Hachiroku • Initial D • interior • lunch box • manga • Narita Airport • Trueno)

Ruru Cafe Shibuya wows customers by serving coffee and sweets on unique water tables

• Oona McGee
  Feb 7, 2025

A new Tokyo hotspot, where your meal looks like it’s floating on water.

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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • cool • cool japan • design • drinks • dry landscape • Japanese rock garden • Japanese sweets • Kare Sansui • latte • Nure Sansui • review • Ruru • Ruru Shibuya • Shibuya • Shibuya Sakura Stage • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel • Zen • zen garden)

The Japanese Valentine’s treats that look like chocolates but taste like the ocean

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 6, 2025

Move over chocolates. Nothing says “I love you” more than a heart full of fish paste.

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• (COK • cool • fish • fish cakes • food • satsuma-age • satuma-age • SNJO • Uoman • Valentine's Day • weird)

Japan’s wagyu heart-shaped steaks are the perfect alternative to Valentine’s Day sweets【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2025

Japanese beef is beloved for its flavor and tenderness, and it can be really cute too.

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• (beef • cool • cute • heart • Matsusaka beef • Matsusakagyu • meat • steak • Valentine's Day • Wagyu)

7-Eleven Japan’s most popular product with foreign tourists is…a unique chocolate gummy

• Oona McGee
  Jan 30, 2025

Sweet treat flies under the radar for locals, but becomes a massive hit with overseas visitors.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • chocolate • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • food • gummies • gummy • gummy candies • gummy candy • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • sweets • tourists)

7-Eleven pancakes become a hit with American tourists in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 27, 2025

There’s a unique way Americans like to eat this convenience store sweet.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • chicken • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • food • fried chicken • hack • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • pancakes • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese junior high students make air freshener from stink bugs

• Master Blaster
  Jan 27, 2025

Not all stink bugs…

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• Japan
• (air freshener • bugs • cool • insects • junior high school • kamemushi • science • stink bugs • weird)

Pokémon lid becomes Japan’s most overprotected manhole cover, melts hearts across the country

• Oona McGee
  Jan 24, 2025

Beautiful display of Japanese care and attention brings warmth to this snowy tourist site.

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• Japan
• (Alolan Vulpix • anime • awesome • COK • cool • cute • Hokkaido • Pikachu • Piplup • Pippu • Pippu Station • Poké Lids • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • train stations • travel • video games • vulpix)

Hen na Hotel Haneda: What it’s really like to stay at Tokyo’s “Weird Hotel” with dinosaur robots

• Oona McGee
  Jan 23, 2025

The fun starts at the front desk, but it’s time to find out how far the weirdness extends through the hotel.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • COK • contactless • cool • dinosaurs • Haneda • Haneda Airport • Henn na Hotel • hotel • hotels • review • robots • SNJO • technology • travel • weird)

Rakuten’s Tokyo robot delivery service both is and isn’t what it promised, but is cute either way

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 21, 2025

Hey, robot! Bring us a cup of coffee, will ya?

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• Japan
• (coffee • COK • cool • delivery • Mr. Sato • rakuten • robots • SNJO • Starbucks • technology)

One of Japan’s craziest stores filled a swimming pool with used CDs【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2025

Disk-aunt might have just the treasure you’ve been searching for, but you’re going to have to find it yourself.

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• Japan
• (awesome • CDs • COK • cool • crazy • physical media • SNJO • tourism • travel • weird)

Overseas Uber driver and anime fan gets the Cowboy Bebop surprise of a lifetime【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2025

I’ve heard you, space cowboy.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime songs • anisongs • awesome • cool • Cowboy Bebop • Koichi Yamadera • music • taxis • Uber • video • voice actors • voice actresses)

Kura Sushi has secret menu items in Japan, and here’s how to find them

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2024

Get a taste of some rare hidden gems enjoyed by those in the know.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • food • Japanese food • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi)

Creating an open-air hot spring bath (without a hot spring) at our cheap Japanese country house【Vids】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2024

Thanks to the power of friendship, it’s outdoor bath time at the SoraHouse!

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• Japan
• (baths • beautiful • Big Wave • Butch • COK • cool • DIY • funny • Go Hatori • hot springs • onsen • rotenburo • SNJO • SoraHouse • video • Yoshio)

Kura Sushi has a new parade-delivered whole cake dessert, but what’s it like to eat?【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 23, 2024

We head to the popular revolving sushi chain, and something very attention-grabbing heads to our table.

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• Japan
• (cake • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • crazy • food • funny • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • sweets • video)

Japanese train station vending machine has the best souvenirs for rail otaku

• Oona McGee
  Dec 22, 2024

A chance encounter leads to a deeper love for Japanese trains.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • Japanese train stations • Japanese vending machines • Kansai • Kintetsu • Kintetsu Railway • Osaka • SNJO • train stations • trains • vending machines)

Cup Noodle sells new squid fork with its instant ramen

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2024

Nissin outdoes itself by making this crazy idea a reality.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • Cup Noodle • food • fork • instant food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • marketing • news • Nissin • Noodles • seafood • squid • weird)

Moving, burping No Face coin bank figure is back to receive your Ghibli fan generosity【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 20, 2024

No Face is always hungry, and he’s craving your coins.

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• Japan
• (anime • coin bank • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • figures • interior • manga • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

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  2. Starbucks Japan unveils new winter drinkware collection with limited-edition Stanley cups
  3. Pokémon doughnuts pop up at Mister Donut, with a new gathering that’s bigger than ever
  4. Get the taste of the U.K. in Tokyo with 99 Flakes, meat pies, and Jaffa Cakes
  5. First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
  6. Japanese government hires leading comedy agency to explain national defense spending
  7. Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
  8. Discount retailers known for massive bargains releases massive Japanese egg sandwich
  9. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  10. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan

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  1. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  2. Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
  3. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
  4. Pachinko parlor operator arrested for not obscuring the act of gambling well enough
  5. Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
  6. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  7. Pokémon doughnuts pop up at Mister Donut, with a new gathering that’s bigger than ever
  8. Starbucks Japan releases now Tokyo Reserve Roastery Christmas drinkware collection [Photos]
  9. Starbucks Japan unveils new winter drinkware collection with limited-edition Stanley cups
  10. Japanese government announces criteria for creating backup capital of Japan

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  1. Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia
  2. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  3. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  4. Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
  5. What’s it like to stay in a Japanese container hotel?
  6. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
  7. Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
  8. New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
  9. Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
  10. Studio Ghibli creates illustrated Kyoto sightseeing map, available at any 7-Eleven Japan store

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
  2. Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
  3. Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
  4. Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
  5. Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
  6. Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
  7. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
  8. Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
  9. Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
  10. Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa

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