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You can now buy replica JR train containers to sleep, hang out, or do whatever you want in【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 18, 2021
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Recreated Japanese freight boxes can be outfitted like living rooms or bedrooms.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • interior • Japan Railways • JR • micro-houses • trains • weird)

Starbucks Japan joins Been There drinkware line with 20 cool designs for all over Japan【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 16, 2021

Starbucks’ Been There has never been here in Japan…until now!

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• Japan
• (Been There • coffee cups • cool • drinks • drinkware • mugs • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

Tokyo restaurant’s bright idea: Lantern pods for you to sit in while you eat【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 16, 2021

Centuries-old Kyoto craft workshop teams up with Tokyo luxury hotel for an unprecedented portioning system.

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• Japan
• (chochin • cool • crazy • food • Hoshino Resorts • hotels • lanterns • partitions • restaurants • weird)

We buy random-destination airplane ticket discounts from a Japanese gacha capsule vending machine

• SoraNews24
  Oct 16, 2021

A new way to fly.

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• Japan
• (airlines • airplanes • awesome • capsule toys • cool • crazy • deals • gacha • Peach • SNJO • travel)

Tokyo Skytree to light up in Demon Slayer character colors as part of tie-up event with anime hit

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 15, 2021

Demon Slayer Corps also appears on observation floor with photo spots, wisteria flowers made of fans’ wishes.

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• Japan
• (anime • aweome • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • Skytree • Tokyo Skytree)

100 yen store chain Daiso opens online shop with 30,000 items to choose from!

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 15, 2021

It’s the Daiso of dreams.

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• Internet, Japan
• (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • awesome • cool • Daiso • online store)

Super Mario and Pikachu join forces for new parade at Universal Studios Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 13, 2021

With characters from Super Mario, Pokémon, Sanrio, and Sesame Street, it’s like the Smash Bros. of theme park parades.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • awesome • COK • cool • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • Super Mario • Super Nintendo World • theme parks • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • USJ)

On Halloween, turn any character into a wounded zombie version with these few simple steps【Pics】

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 12, 2021

Our reporter shares her pro tips for applying wound makeup for her masked, zombie version of fan-favorite Harley Quinn this year.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • fashion • halloween • Harley Quinn • makeup • mask • Natsuki Gojo • scary • SNJO • tips • zombie)

The world’s best invention is now even better in the form of a specially built gaming kotatsu

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 12, 2021

Game enthusiasts and kotatsu enthusiasts now have something to be doubly enthusiastic about together.

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• Japan
• (Board games • card games • clever • cool • furniture • game kotatsu • interior • kotatsu • table • warm)

Japanese gacha capsule vending machines now sell random-destination airplane ticket discounts

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 12, 2021

A gacha capsule for anyone who truly thinks it’s not the destination that’s important, but the journey.

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• Japan
• (airlines • airplanes • awesome • capsule toys • cool • crazy • deals • gacha • Peach • travel)

Giant flying Totoro balloon appears at Tokyo’s Ghibli Museum【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 12, 2021

Museum marks a special milestone since its opening.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • cute • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • video)

Japanese sugar artist astounds fans with edible robot from Laputa: Castle in the Sky【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 10, 2021

A very sweet take on a classic Studio Ghibli anime film. 

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• Japan
• (anime • art • beautiful • Castle in the Sky • cookies • cool • Ghibli • Laputa • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • Laputian robot • robots • Studio Ghibli • sugar • sweets • videos • Whip Sugar)

Official Pokémon furniture line launches with Pikachu Sofa and Poké Ball table【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 9, 2021

Cute enough for any fan, and stylish enough for any home.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • cute • Detective Pikachu • furniture • Pikachu • Pokemon • sofa • video games)

Can a famous Japanese hypnotist make us eat super spicy instant noodles?【Experiment】

• Dale Roll
  Oct 9, 2021

Can hypnosis keep us from tasting spiciness? We try to find out!!

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • experiment • food • funny • hypnosis • instant noodles • Noodles • Peyang • SNJO • spicy • weird)

Nothing is more relaxing than watching this Japanese artist drawing with Daiso crayons【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 8, 2021

“Let’s overcome these barriers” says Shibasaki, who just might be everyone’s kind and cool Japanese art uncle.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • art • cool • crayons • Daiso • video)

New Sailor Moon illumination event will bring Crystal Tokyo…or rather Crystal Kanagawa to life

• Katy Kelly
  Oct 8, 2021

Sagami Lake Resort will light up in all the colors of the Sailor Soldiers and provide plenty of pretty photo opportunities.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • events • illumination • Kanagawa • manga • Sailor Moon)

Pokémon at your door! Japanese home hyosatsu marks your house with your name and favorite Pokémon

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 7, 2021

30 Gen-1 Pokémon are ready to literally become part of your home.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • hyosatsu • Pikachu • Pokemon • video games)

Japan Airlines re-re-releasing happi famously once worn by the Beatles

• Katie Pask
  Oct 6, 2021

And the best part? You don’t even need a Ticket to Ride to get it!

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• Japan
• (airplane • airplanes • Beatles • cool • fashion • happi • happi coat • JAL • Japan Airlines • travel)

Google Japan unveils tea-cup shaped keyboard with open-source all-fish input system

• Master Blaster
  Oct 6, 2021

Someday our grandchildren will wonder what life was like before we all typed on tea cups.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • design • funny • Gboard Yunomi Version • Google • keyboard • tea • tea cups • technology • weird • yunomi)

Tokyo Station Waterscape Toilet looks more like an aquarium than a bathroom

• Oona McGee
  Oct 6, 2021

Latest technology to “provide healing and surprise”.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • Japanese toilets • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • public toilets • SNJO • stations • Toilets • Tokyo Station • train stations • trains • unusual • water)

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