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Tokyo hotel lets your rent out entire Japanese bath facility, become lord of the baths【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2022
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You don’t need to be staying overnight to enjoy this special kind of relaxing luxury.

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• (baths • COK • cool • Dormy Inn • hotels • Japanese baths • Masanuki Sunakoma • Naka Meguro • SNJO)

Japanese randoseru schoolbag becomes a sling bag for adults

• Oona McGee
  Feb 7, 2022

For cool kids who are all grown up.

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• (accessory • bag • cool • culture • fashion • randoseru • school bag • school bags)

Anime fan’s husband builds an awesomely hilarious birthday present for her【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2022

Prince of Tennis pair shows off mesmerizing motions.

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• (anime • clever • cool • crazy • figures • funny • manga • Prince of Tennis • video)

Newest Japanese vending machine crush: Keikyu’s kimchi vending machine!【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  Feb 6, 2022

For those times when you’ve got someplace to be, and you’ve also got a craving for kimchi.

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• (COK • cool • food • kawasaki • kimchi • SNJO • stations • taste test • trains • vending machines)

Japanese trains now even more convenient as new service lets you pick up groceries at station

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2022

Allows commuters to skip supermarket detour and stay on the straight track to dinner.

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• (clever • COK • cooking • cool • East Japan Railway Company • food • Japan Railway • JR • JR East • shopping • stations • trains)

Sega creates free digital omamori good luck charms to help you succeed at school and work

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2022

Characters from Yakuza, Virtua Fighter, and Sonic the Hedgehog want to give you a boost on test day or in your job interview.

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• (cool • good luck charms • Omamori • Sega • Sonic the Hedgehog • video games • Virtua Fighter • Yakuza series)

Cosplay company creates fantasy RPG-style memorial altars for the ashes of your ancestors【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2022

Takumi Armory helps you give family members a resting place and sendoff fit for a hero.

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• (altar • anime • awesome • Buddhism • butsudan • cool • cosplay • culture • religion • Takumi Armory • video games)

Beautiful Starbucks in Kyoto blends into its traditional landscape in more ways than one

• Oona McGee
  Feb 2, 2022

Beverages taste better here, when you can drink in Japanese scenery like this.

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• (architecture • beautiful • cafes • COK • cool • drinks • history • japanese architecture • Kyoto • machiya • Ninenzaka • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • tradition • traditional • travel)

Cloud’s Buster Sword is becoming an awesome real-world clock for Final Fantasy fans

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2022

Hey, Buster, tell me what time it is!

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• Japan
• (awesome • clocks • cool • crazy • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII • Final Fantasy VII remake • interior • Square Enix • video games)

Authentic Japanese sword letter openers available through crowdfunding

• Master Blaster
  Jan 31, 2022

Live by the sword, open mail by the sword.

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• (Bizen Osafune • cool • crowdfunding • Hitofuri • Japanese swords • Katana • letter opener • stationery • swords • swordsmith)

Japanese festival says thank you and goodbye to daruma good-luck dolls…with fire【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2022

A dramatic send-off at a mountain temple.

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• (awesome • cool • culture • festivals • fire • good luck charms • Gunma • temples.daruma)

We tried a Japanese egg steamer to achieve the perfect breakfast eggs without a stove

• Shannon
  Jan 29, 2022

No more careful timing needed for the perfectly boiled egg!

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• (COK • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • eggs • food • gadgets • Koizumi Seiki • onsen tamago • SNJO • SNO)

A random stranger (or possibly a river spirit) gives us a ramen recommendation by a frozen stream

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 28, 2022

He also makes a startling invitation.

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• (Asahikawa • COK • cool • crazy • food • Hokkaido • Otaru • ramen • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • travel • weird)

For the working otaku – Convertible bags you can take to work and anime/idol events【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 27, 2022

Clever design lets you transform from serious professional to hardcore fan in seconds flat.

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• (anime • bags • clever • cool • fashion • idol singers • Idols • oshi • otaku)

Sumo salt shaker steals the show in new range of Japanese wrestler goods

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

Add ceremonial salt to your fries, fight in the ring on a pouch, and watch a wrestler grow in your water glass. 

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• (buy • cool • culture • Felissimo • funny • goods • shopping • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • sumo wrestling • tradition • traditional sports • You + More)

Studio Ghibli releases Soot Sprite erasers!

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

My Neighbour Totoro characters are too cute to use!

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• (anime • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • erasers • Japanese stationery • Makkuro Kurosuke • merchandise • movies • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • soot sprites • stationery • Studio Ghibli)

Turn your bad drawings into gorgeous anime and manga characters!

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

Realtime 2-D character creation software is a game-changer for artists and non-artists alike.

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• (anime • art • cool • cute • fun • illustration • manga • Pixiv • programming • Software • virtual YouTubers • VRoid Studio • VTuber)

For those who want it thick – Japanese vending machine allows you to choose drink thickness

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 25, 2022

It’s not just about personal preference, though.

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• (clever • COK • cool • drinks • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • vending machines)

An amazing icicle world waits just an hour and a half outside downtown Tokyo【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 24, 2022

Annual event in Chichibu is worth getting out of the city and venturing into the cold for.

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• (art • awesome • beautiful • Chichibu • COK • cool • crazy • ice • icicles • Saitama • SNJO • travel)

Terrifying snow No Face found in Japan gets thumbs up from Studio Ghibli【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 22, 2022

Maybe we should call this version of the Spirited Away scene stealer Snow Face.

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• (anime • cool • crazy • No Face • scary • snow • snowman • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

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