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Nissin releases new Gaming Cup Noodle in Japan, with caffeine to keep you gaming all night long

• Oona McGee
  Sep 5, 2023
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Instant ramen company blends special ingredients to create the “strongest Buff Meshi” for gamers.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • cool • crazy • Cup Noodle • cup noodles • curry • Curry Meshi • food • gamers • gaming • Gaming Cup Noodle • gaming news • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • video games • yakisoba)

This Japanese convenience store in Tokyo has a Subway inside it

• Oona McGee
  Sep 4, 2023

You don’t find Family Marts like this every day. 

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • cool • Famichiki • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • Subway • Subway sandwich • Tokyo • unusual • weird)

Tokyo convenience store has full bar inside with Japanese whiskey, will smoke your combini snacks

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 2, 2023

Shibuya Family Mart teams up with Kyoto bar.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • awesome • bars • COK • convenience stores • cool • crazy • drinks • Famichiki • Family mart • food • fried chicken • Hakushu • Japanese whiskey • Japanese whisy • Shibuya • SNJO • Suntory • Whiskey • whisky)

Starbucks Japan’s new Butter Frappuccino is more like a sweet pastry than a drink

• Oona McGee
  Sep 2, 2023

Time to get a taste of autumn, with an unusual blend of ingredients. 

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• Japan
• (butter • COK • cool • dessert drink • drinks • Frappuccino • imo kenpi • Japanese Frappuccino • K. Masami • limited edition • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweet potato • sweets)

Final Fantasy XIV fireworks show celebrates 10 years with 14,000 fireworks, drone art, and music

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 1, 2023

Second performance of video game’s 10th anniversary celebration is scheduled for this fall.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • drone art • drone show • drones • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy XIV • fireworks • Square Enix • video games)

Sliced cheese-style apple pie sheets you cook in toaster oven may be Japan’s latest dessert hit

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 30, 2023

Bourbon is ready to give us great toast with the flavor of fresh baked apple pie in just three minutes.

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• Japan
• (apple pie • apples • clever • COK • cool • pie • sweets • toast)

Become snoozing Pikachu Snorlax with new Pokémon Sleep line from Japan’s coziest sleepwear brand

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 30, 2023

Just the thing to wear for your next Pokémon Sleep session.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • fashion • Gelato Pique • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Sleep • roomwear • video games)

Look out, Starbucks — McDonald’s Japan has now entered the dessert drink game

• Oona McGee
  Aug 29, 2023

Can a fast food chain beat a coffeehouse chain at its own game?

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• Japan
• (Anji Tabata • COK • commercials • cool • drinks • fast food • frappes • Frappuccino • Japanese commercials • kimutaku • macarons • marketing • McCafe • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • review • SNJO • strawberry • sweets • Takuya Kimura • taste test)

Starbucks releases a Butter Frappuccino in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2023

There’s logic behind this sweet madness.

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• Japan
• (butter • COK • cool • dessert drink • drinks • Frappuccino • imo kenpi • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweet potato • sweets)

Japanese vending machine is the only one of its kind in Japan, dubbed the “phantom machine”

• SoraNews24
  Aug 27, 2023

A neat example of marketing to help a rural community. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Japanese vending machines • karaimo • Kumamoto • Kyushu • roasted sweet potatoes • SNJO • sweet potatoes • sweets • Takashi Harada • taste test • vending machines • weird • yaki imo • yakiimo)

Hiroshima samurai house’s toilet and shrine show it wasn’t always easy being a warrior family

• SoraNews24
  Aug 26, 2023

Small details tell some big stories.

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• Japan
• (archetecture • COK • cool • Hiroshima Prefecture • history • SNJO • travel)

We make anime food from Studio Ghibli movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky

• Oona McGee
  Aug 26, 2023

Join us as we recreate Dora’s chunk of meat and the Tiger Moth Airship Stew, which look just like they do in the film.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime food • books • cooking • cool • cute • food • Ghibli • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • movies • recipes • Sheeta • Stew • Studio Ghibli • themed food • Tiger Moth)

Japanese vending machine sells…retro toothbrushes?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 25, 2023

This is one weird machine you won’t find anywhere else!

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • funny • Greeeen • haruka takagi • Japanese vending machines • Kyoto • SNJO • toothbrush • vending machines • weird)

Round 2 of the Pokémon Happy Meal toys at McDonald’s is here! Will you collect ’em all?

• Dale Roll
  Aug 25, 2023

This round is just as fun as the last!

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • fans • fast food • food • goldfish scooping • Happy Meal • McDonald's • Pikachu • Pokemon • squirt guns • toys • video games)

At Kichi Kichi in Kyoto the rice omelets are both dinner and a show【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Aug 25, 2023

Kichi Kichi ya ya da da…

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• Japan
• (awesome • COK • cool • entertainment • food • Kichi Kichi • Kyoto • Motokichi • omurice • restaurants • rice omelet • SNO • video)

Studio Ghibli mini heroine dress sachets will have your home looking, and smelling, great【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2023

Costumes of three iconic Ghibli anime protagonists have been shrunk down to sachet size.

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• Japan
• (anime • aroma • Arrietty • cool • cute • Donguri Closet • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Kiki's Delivery Service • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • sachet • Secret World of Arrietty • Studio Ghibli)

We take a giraffe nap in a standing sleep pod at a cafe in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Aug 25, 2023

Testing the benefits of vertical sleep and coffee in Harajuku.

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• Japan
• (cafes • coffee • coffee nap • COK • cool • crazy • Egawa Tasuku • giraffe • giraffenap • Harajuku • interior • nap • Nescafe • pods • sleep • SNJO • standing nap • standing sleep • Tokyo • weird)

One of Tokyo’s low-key best rooftop views is about to disappear, so see it while you can【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2023

Mr. Sato visit the beautiful skies of a Tokyo rooftop most travelers have never heard of.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • cool • Mr. Sato • SNJO • TOC Building • Tokyo • travel)

The reasons why Japanese highway rest stops have angled parking

• Oona McGee
  Aug 23, 2023

Clever design is a literal lifesaver. 

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• Japan
• (cars • clever • COK • cool • design • driving • Driving in Japan • expressways • highway rest stops • highways • parking area • parking areas • rest stops • service area • SNJO • travel • UX design)

Japanese anime appears at McDonald’s in the U.S., making the artist’s dreams come true

• Oona McGee
  Aug 22, 2023

The Devil is a Part-Timer attracts attention in the U.S. and otaku are lovin’ it.

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• Japan, USA
• (029 • advertising • anime • COK • commercials • cool • Hataraku Maou-sama! • Japanese anime • marketing • McDonald's • Oniku • SNJO • The Devil Is a Part-Timer! • videos)

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