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The best Christmas Market in Japan? Yokohama event is top choice for travellers

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2024
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All you need to know about the most popular Christmas Market near Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • Christmas Market • COK • cool • food • Red Brick Warehouse • SNJO • things to do • travel • Yokohama)

Japan now has fish-shaped soy sauce bottle hand cream

• Oona McGee
  Dec 18, 2024

Still serves up soy, but in a different way.

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• Japan
• (beauty • bento • COK • cool • crazy • cute • food • hand cream • Heso • Heso Productions • Japanese food • LOL • Osaka • sashimi • shopping • souvenir • soy • soy sauce • soy sauce bottle • sushi • weird)

Studio Ghibli serves up new anime food at Ghibli Park

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2024

The tables are turned on the man-eating parakeets from The Boy and the Heron.

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• Japan
• (A Sumo Wrestler's Tail • anime • anime films • anime food • cafe • Chuzumo • cool • films • food • Ghibli • Ghibli Park • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • short films • Studio Ghibli • sweets • The Boy and the Heron)

Mysterious light-up rainy night-sound Totoro figure doesn’t actually show a scene from the anime

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2024

If you’re a Ghibli fan, you’ve definitely seen this scene before, just not during the classic anime film.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • diorama • Donguri Kyowakoku • figues • interior • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • poster • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • video)

One of Japan’s rarest sweets is a sell-out hit that looks and tastes like frost

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2024

You have to be very lucky to try this can of ice needles.

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• Japan
• (candy • COK • confectionery • cool • Japanese confectionery • Japanese sweets • old Japanese stores • phantom sweets • review • Sendai • Shimobashira • shopping • SNJO • sweets • taste test • unique • unusual)

Japanese company develops classy heavy metal band frames for glasses

• Master Blaster
  Dec 15, 2024

It’s like a T-shirt for your face.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • eyeglasses • eyewear • fashion • glasses • heavy metal • Iron Maiden • Judas Priest • Loud Eyewear • music • Slayer • weird)

Stunning ukiyo-e art experience floats over to Tokyo for its latest exhibition

• Elliot Hale
  Dec 13, 2024

These reimagined woodblock prints beautifully blend traditional culture and modern technology.

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• Japan
• (3-D art • art • awesome • beautiful • COK • cool • Hitohata • hokusai • Immersive Museum • Katsushika Hokusai • museums • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Toyota gets second Guinness World Record for basketball playing humanoid robot

• Master Blaster
  Dec 12, 2024

Yeah, but his D is weak if you ask me.

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• Japan
• (awesome • basketball • cool • CUE • Guinness world records • robots • sports • technology • TOYOTA • video • world record)

Sushi Bears restaurant opens in Tokyo, offers exactly what its name promises【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 11, 2024

If you want your sushi seasoned with adorableness, this is the place.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • bears • cool • cute • food • restaurants • sushi)

This is Japan’s only shrine with a Shinkansen tunnel underneath it

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2024

It’s a distinction Akabane Hachiman Shrine didn’t want, but has come to embrace.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • COK • cool • history • shinkansen • shrines • SNJO • tourism • trains • travel)

Kotatsu in the Sky returns to the Osaka Wheel, Japan’s tallest Ferris wheel

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 10, 2024

Visitors to Osaka over the winter should book this special service to experience the warmth and coziness of the Japanese kotatsu with stunning views.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • cozy • Ferris wheel • hot sake • kotatsu • oden • Osaka • Osaka wheel • ride • scenery • Showa retro • warm • winter)

Drink hot sake at Tokyo train station’s “phantom platform”

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2024

A special winter drinking event you won’t want to miss.

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• Japan
• (atsukan • COK • cool • events • food • hot sake • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese sake • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • oden • restaurants • Ryogoku • Ryogoku Station • sake • Tokyo • train stations • trains • unique • unusual • winter)

Serpentine Winnie the Pooh Year of the Snake plushies, Mickey and Baymax daruma arrive in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 4, 2024

There may not be a Year of the Bear, but Eto Pooh is an annual tradition for Disney fans in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Baymax • Big Hero 6 • Chinese zodiac • cool • cute • daruma • Disney • eto • Eto Pooh • interior • New Year's • Oshogatsu • plushies • Winnie the Pooh • year of the snake)

Nintendo bringing real-life Zelda Zonai Device capsule toy machines to Japan【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2024

Items from Tears of the Kingdom set to become the joy of gamers.

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• Japan
• (awesome • capsule toys • cool • gacha • gachapon • Legend of Zelda • nintendo • Nintendo Kyoto • Nintendo Osaka • Nintendo Tokyo • Tears of the Kingdom • video games • Zonai Device)

Tokyo’s “commuter boat” is an awesome hidden way to see the city from the water for dirt-cheap

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2024

Randomly stumbling across a beautiful cruise line that starts in the heart of downtown Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (boats • COK • cool • Nihonbashi • SNJO • tourism • Toyosu • travel)

Big dam Godzilla appears in Japan as power-washer art on side of 195-foot dam【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 27, 2024

Saga dam gets a Godzilla wash.

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• Japan
• (art • awesome • cool • crazy • damn • Godzilla • kaiju • video)

Dynamic, delicious sashimi searing lesson will show you the true flavor of katsuo tataki【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 26, 2024

Shizuoka shop serves up some of the best bonito we’ve ever had, and lets you be part of making it.

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• Japan
• (bonito • COK • cooking • cool • fish • food • katsuo • katsuo tataki • sashimi • SNJO • sushi)

7-Eleven Japan releases fukubukuro lucky bags filled with convenience store surprises

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2024

Cute details that konbini lovers will go mad for.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • combini • convenience stores • cool • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • SNJO)

Japanese mochi tasting flight has roots in samurai dining culture

• Oona McGee
  Nov 22, 2024

A new take on honzen ryori in the holy land of mochi.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Genbikei • Ichinoseki • iwate prefecture • Japanese food • michi no eki • mochi • restaurants • rice • rice cake • SNJO • travel • unique)

Kyoto Whopper divides customers at Burger King Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2024

Japanese rice specialist turns the Whopper on its head, but was it worth it?

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• Japan
• (Burger King • burgers • COK • cool • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kyoto • Kyoto Whopper • limited edition • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test • weird • whopper)

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