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Ninja Soba Goemon: A Japanese restaurant that’s like a ninja hideout

• Oona McGee
  Mar 1, 2024
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Because shadow warriors need to eat noodles too. 

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• (cool • eating • food • Goemon • goemonburo • Gunma • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Ninja • Ninja Soba Goemon • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soba • soba restaurant • taste test)

Fox-boy Sephiroth really wants Cloud to eat some noodles in new Donbei/Final Fantasy video【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 28, 2024

Final Fantasy VII’s villain gets a foxy makeover as he forcibly recommends a meal for his rival.

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• (awesome • cool • Donbei • Donei • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth • Final Fantasy VII remake • food • funny • instant noodles • Nissin • Noodles • Square Enix • udon • video • video games)

Does Japan’s “Stinky but Tasty” tonkotsu ramen live up to its name?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 24, 2024

We blind taste one of the most unusual instant noodles on the market.

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• (cool • cup noodles • Don Quijote • food • Instant Ramen • Kyushu • Noodles • ramen • review • SNJO • taste test • tonkotsu • tonkotsu ramen)

Japanese manhole covers become a hit with foreign tourists in off-the-beaten path Tokyo area

• Oona McGee
  Feb 24, 2024

Street lids are now some of the city’s most unusual tourist sites, and there’s a way you can take them home as free souvenir cards.

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• (art • cool • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • manhole cover • Manhole cover cards • manhole covers • manhole lids • Ryogoku • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Sumo • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • travel • ukiyoe)

Suika Game can now help you stay in shape with new exercise version of the smash-hit game【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 23, 2024

Why be a couch potato when you can be a fruit exerciser instead?

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• (clever • cool • exercise • fitness • Suika Game • video • video games)

Japan’s life-size moving Gundam is closing soon, and the last tickets are about to go on sale

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 23, 2024

Mobile Suit Gundam: goodbye.

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• (anime • awesome • cool • full-scale Gundam • Gundam • Gundam Factory Yokohama • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • moving Gundam • robots • Yokohama)

This fully-functioning tiny trailer house is cheaper than buying an average Tokyo condo

• Shannon
  Feb 23, 2024

It’s not just for camping; it’s got all the hookups you need for living.

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• Japan
• (camper vans • cars • COK • cool • micro-houses • minimalist lifestyle • motor home • SNJO • tiny homes • tiny house movement • tiny houses • Yadokari)

How to make a massive five-layer lasagna…in your rice cooker【SoraKitchen】

• Shannon
  Feb 21, 2024

The quest to eat all of the cheese in our office continues.

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• (cheese • Chef Go • COK • cool • crazy • food • Go Hatori • lasagna • rice cooker • rice cooker recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen)

Japan’s Baby Bird Reincarnation sofa bed — So cozy you won’t want to go back to being a human?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 18, 2024

It’s really hard to see a reason to ever get out of this thing.

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• (bed • cool • couch • cozy • furniture • interior • sofa)

Funny signs in Japan: 7-Eleven enters the ring with a humorous notice for drivers

• Oona McGee
  Feb 17, 2024

A clever way to draw attention to an off-the-beaten-path Japanese convenience store location. 

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • billboards • clever • convenience stores • cool • funny • LOL • marketing • Saitama • signs • SNJO)

Rare vending machine at Japan’s oldest shrine sells…divine crepes!

• Oona McGee
  Feb 13, 2024

Holy ground for parishioners and vending machine lovers at this off-the-beaten path destination. 

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• Japan
• (cool • crepes • Japanese vending machines • Nara • Omiwa Shrine • SNJO • sweet potatoes • vending machines • weird)

Amazing Spirited Away sculpture wins visitors’ choice award at Sapporo Snow Festival【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 13, 2024

Studio Ghibli bathhouse owner, other anime characters recreated in snow and ice at annual Hokkaido event.

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• (anime • awesome • cool • Golden Kamuy • Gundam • Hayao Miyazaki • Sapporo • Sapporo Snow Festival • snow • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • video)

Japan’s big eats just got even bigger at this little-known cafe

• Oona McGee
  Feb 12, 2024

Things that make you go, “Huh?” are definitely worth trying when you find them. 

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• Japan
• (big eats • cafes • cool • drinks • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • mikan • onigiri • review • rice balls • Sendai • shopping • SNJO • supermarkets • tast test • taste test • travel • U Cafe • Ujie)

Why not celebrate your graduation with a cool boat trip to the world’s biggest tidal whirlpools?

• Dale Roll
  Feb 12, 2024

Embark on a new stage of life with a symbolic boat journey!

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• Japan
• (Awaji Island • awesome • boats • cool • cruises • graduation • Hyogo • Japan travel • sightseeing • tourism • travel • whirlpools)

Ghibli cats set to star on your fingertips with new Whisper of the Heart finger puppet series

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2024

Five puppets for your five fingers.

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• (anime • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • finger puppets • manga • Studio Ghibli • whisper of the heart)

Foreign student’s comment leads to Japan’s favorite tonkotsu ramen being added to school lunch menu

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2024

This guy must now be a hero to his classmates.

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• (COK • cool • food • foreigners in Japan • Ippudo • Noodles • ramen • school lunches • schools • tonkotsu ramen)

Ghibli Museum’s rooftop Robot Soldier captivates fans as snow falls in Tokyo【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 7, 2024

“Guardian of the Ghibli Museum” looks like it’s stepped straight out of the anime movie.

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• Japan
• (anime • Castle in the Sky • cool • Ghibli • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • Laputa • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • Mitaka • robot soldier • snow • snow in Tokyo • Studio Ghibli • Tokyo • twitter • videos)

Sega successor opens new arcade with a regional craft beer bar inside it

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2024

Multiple regional brewers and amazing taiyaki will keep you from getting too thirsty or hungry while you’re at Japan’s newest arcade.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • Arcades • beer • COK • cool • craft beer • drinks • food • Genda GiGO • GiGO • Sapporo • Sega • sweets • taiyaki • video games)

Japan’s hardest rice crackers, snacks of the shinobi, go soft, so do they have a reason to exist?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2024

Taste-testing the “soft cooked hardness” of Iga.

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• Japan
• (anko • COK • cool • crazy • food • Iga • manju • Ninja • rice crackers • senbei • SNJO • sweet red beans • taste test)

Japan’s Setsubun Bean-Throwing Bazooka is so powerful demons won’t dare come near you

• Oona McGee
  Feb 3, 2024

Taking Japanese customs of demon-vanquishing to impressive new levels.

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• Japan
• (beans • COK • cool • culture • funny • gadgets • mame • oni • setsubun • SNJO • weird)

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