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This Tokyo apartment complex lets you paint your room, offers community BBQ and camping gear

• Dale Roll
  Sep 17, 2021
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And it has a community DIY workroom!

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• (Apartment • apartments • barbecue • camping • communal living • cool • DIY • Japanese apartments • outdoors • social apartments • Tokyo living)

Tokyo Revengers anime/manga takes over Tokyo Station with dozens of character posters【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 16, 2021

Tokyo Revengers become the Nippon Revengers with special salutes to all the prefectures of Japan.

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• (anime • cool • manga • stations • Tokyo Revengers • Tokyo Station)

Mr Sato makes a frightening purchase at an Akihabara vending machine

• Oona McGee
  Sep 16, 2021

A product literally shrouded in mystery. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • ghost stories • ghosts • Japanese vending machines • Mr. Sato • poo • poop • scary • shops • SNJO • stories • vending machines • weird • wtf)

New life-size Gundam statue coming to Japan, and it’s a Nu one!

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 15, 2021

West Japan gets its first 1:1-scale mobile suit with the last mecha of the anime’s original hero.

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• (anime • awesome • Char's Counterattack • cool • Fukuoka • Gundam • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • Nu Gundam • robots)

New Adidas Hachiko sneakers pay homage to Shibuya’s famous loyal dog

• Oona McGee
  Sep 14, 2021

The third release in the Adidas x Atmos Shibuya Pack promoting Tokyo street culture to the world. 

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• (Adidas • atmos • cool • design • fashion • Hachiko • Japanese style • limited edition • running • Shibuya • shoes • sneakers)

We try Japan’s new drinkable curry in a can

• Oona McGee
  Sep 14, 2021

When you want the taste of Japanese curry…without the fuss of cutlery.

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• Japan
• (awesome • canned drinks • cool • crazy • curry • drinks • food • Japanese food • Pokka Sapporo • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Heat sake like they do at a Japanese izakaya with this special at-home set

• Oona McGee
  Sep 14, 2021

Special delivery from a Japanese-style pub in Tokyo!

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• Japan
• (atsukan • clever • COK • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • hot sake • izakaya • Japanese food • kitchen gadgets • pubs • sake • snacks)

Tokyo farewells Japan’s only double-decker Shinkansen with a special escalator at the station

• Oona McGee
  Sep 13, 2021

An escalator ride like no other. 

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• Japan
• (bullet trains • COK • cool • escalators • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Joetsu Shinkansen • shinkansen • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo Station • train stations • trains • unusual)

Amazing Totoro bread reveals a different side to the Ghibli anime character【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 11, 2021

Giant bread contains a giant surprise. 

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• Japan
• (anime • baking • bread • cool • crazy • cute • food • funny • Ghibli • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • video)

They’re all here! Japanese collector completes set of all 1,244 Game Boy games【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 11, 2021

If you could buy it in a store, he’s got it.

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• Japan
• (awesome • collection • collectors • cool • crazy • Game Boy • nintendo • retro games • video games)

Japanese company makes a robot specifically to keep your cat entertained

• Katy Kelly
  Sep 10, 2021

The future is here for fun-deprived felines.

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• Japan
• (animals • cat toy • cats • clever • COK • cool • cute • gadgets • pets • technology)

Legendary manga creator Rumiko Takahashi gives Twitter tour of her home【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 10, 2021

Creator of Inyasha, Ranma 1/2, and other hits shows where she draws, her amazing home library, and incredibly merch collection.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Inuyasha • Maison Ikkoku • manga • Ranma 1/2 • Rumiko Takahashi • Urusei Yatsura)

We test Japan’s new Gaming Chopsticks Holder

• Oona McGee
  Sep 10, 2021

Gadget proves it’s a game-changer after doing battle with a variety of snack foods. 

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• (chopsticks • clever • cool • food • gadgets • gamers • gaming • snack foods • SNJO • video games • weird)

Whether you look up or down, there’s beauty all around in these “inverted world” photos from Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 9, 2021

Gorgeously mysterious photos of the sky above…and a town below?

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• Japan
• (beautiful • cool • crazy • photography • photos • rain)

Mt. Fuji gets covered with beautiful umbrella cloud that also has some people seeing a fried egg

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 9, 2021

Beautiful, mysterious, and maybe a little delicious too.

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• (beautiful • clouds • cool • crazy • eggs • funny • Mt. Fuji)

Amazing stop-motion artist recreates Akira anime’s most famous sequence with figures【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 8, 2021

The slide seen ‘round the world looks awesome in a whole new way with some clever practical effects.

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• (AKIRA • anime • cool • figures • manga • stop motion • video)

Clever Japanese sticker defeats junk mail flyers, lets mail you actually want get through【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 8, 2021

Designers say it’s completely solved their junk mail problems in a delicious way.

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• (clever • cool • food • funny • junk mail • mail • pizza)

Mochi ice cream ramen: Noodles will never be the same again

• Oona McGee
  Sep 7, 2021

We love Yukimi Daifuku ice creams, but will we love them when they’re wrapped in pork and floating in a hot, salty broth?

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • food • ice cream • Korakuen • Kourakuen • Lotte • mochi ice cream • Mr. Sato • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird • Yukimi Daifuku)

Figma creates realistic action figure of the inner human anatomy that’s fully posable

• Shannon
  Sep 7, 2021

There are action figures, and then there are educational and anatomically correct action figures.

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• Japan
• (action figure • cool • Figma • Good Smile • Good Smile Company • unique)

Demon Slayer anime restaurant coming to Universal Studios with Hashira meals, life-size figures

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2021

Wisteria Restaurant to pop up at Universal Studios Japan alongside Demon Slayer AR coaster.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • anime • cool • Demon Slayer • drinks • food • Kimetsu no Yaiba • restaurants • sweets • themed restaurants • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • USJ)

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