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Bent postboxes in Taiwan are a heartwarming reminder to never give up
- Oona McGee
Apr 6, 2023 - Tweet
These mailboxes come with a tear-jerking backstory.
- Japan, Taiwan
- (COK • culture • heartwarming • history • post • post box • SNJO • Taipei • Taiwan • tourism • tourist site • tourist spots • travel • Typhoon 24)
World’s most elegant kickball game held at Kyoto’s Imperial Palace【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2023
Kickball the Heian way.
- Japan
- (culture • Heian Period • history • kemari • kickball • Kyoto • Kyoto Imperial Palace • sports • video)
Japanese Penis Festival shrine distances itself from penis mascot
- SoraNews24
Mar 28, 2023
The one penis not welcome at Japan’s Kanamara Matsuri.
- Japan
- (cool • culture • fertility • festivals • Japanese mascots • Japanese religion • Kanamara Festival • Mascots • penis festival • religion • shrines • temples • travel • weird • wtf)
Could this island actually be the real setting of the legend of Urashima Taro?
- Dale Roll
Mar 23, 2023
There’s a mysticism to this place that really makes it feel like a turtle could guide you to the Dragon King’s Palace.
- Japan
- (Amami Oshima • beautiful • COK • culture • Ikuna Kamezawa • Japan travel • nature • SNJO • travel • turtles • Urashima Taro)
There’s more to do than just look at the flowers at Tokyo’s biggest riverside sakura celebration
- Krista Rogers
Mar 21, 2023
If you’re in Tokyo, take a day to immerse yourself in the Edo period atmosphere during one of these events while enjoying the cherry blossoms.
- Japan
- (boat • cherry blossoms • COK • culture • Edo River • Edogawa River • events • festival • flowers • Fukagawa • hanami • market • Oedo Fukagawa Sakura Festival • outdoor • sakura • schedule • Tokyo)
Japanese rokushigake temple architecture for your living room: The no-nail Masugumi table
- Shannon
Mar 9, 2023
If you’re looking for your new artisanal centerpiece, this is it.
- Japan
- (architecture • COK • culture • furniture • interior • interior design • shrines • temples • traditional)
An exquisite work of beef art makes the perfect Kabuki Day gift
- Master Blaster
Feb 20, 2023
I’d look like that too if my hair were meat.
- Japan
- (Art Beef Gallery • beef • culture • kabuki • kabuki day • meat • omi beef • Renjishi • ukiyo-e • Wagyu)
Mermaid mummy stored at Japanese temple has true identity revealed after year-long study【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2023
Ningyo was said to have been pulled out of the sea by a fisherman in Tosa domain nearly 300 years ago.
Looking for cheap sightseeing in Tokyo? How about these rad stairs at Za-Koenji Public Theatre?
- Master Blaster
Feb 7, 2023
These stairs draw a lot of stares.
- Japan
- (Cafe Henri Fabre • cafes • culture • Koenji • sightseeing • stairs • Suginami • theaters • Tokyo • Za-Keonji Public Theatre)
Black Thunder chocolate brings us the future of Valentine’s Day: Crabs!
- Master Blaster
Jan 30, 2023
And Crab Thunder is coming up with new and inventive ways to give us crabs.
- Japan
- (B-Class Valentine Future Expo 2023 • Black Thunder. Valentine's Day • chocolate • crab • Crab & Peace • culture • events • Kanisbee • relationships • technology)
We visit the only shrine in Japan where you can pray to the gods for good weather
- Katie Pask
Jan 22, 2023
Pray the rain away at special weather shrine in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • culture • Koenji • Mr. Sato • shinto • shrines • SNJO • Teru Teru Bozu • Tokyo • weather)
Dean & DeLuca now has fancy good luck sushi rolls to help Japan celebrate Setsubun【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 14, 2023
They’re almost too pretty to eat, but you’ll need to chow down if you want to get Japan’s most delicious traditional luck boost.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • Dean & DeLuca • Dean & DeLuca Japan • Ehomaki • food • setsubun • sushi • sushi rolls)
Say hello to Japan’s new generation of adults, fresh from Kitakyushu’s 2023 seijinshiki ceremony
- Oona McGee
Jan 10, 2023
These new adults say sayonara to their youth with colourful hair and gangsta costumes.
- Japan
- (bosozoku • COK • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)
Kicking off the new year with a gathering of the most famous dekotora in Japan
- Master Blaster
Jan 9, 2023
Who needs fireworks when you got this?
- Japan
- (art • culture • Dekotora • Ichibanboshi • movies • New Year 2023 • Truck Yaro • trucks)
The meaning of the mandarin and 6 other Japanese New Year traditions explained
- Oona McGee
Jan 1, 2023
Join us as we take a look at some of the most popular Japanese New Year traditions and reveal the spiritual symbolism and superstitions behind them.
- Japan
- (culture • ganjitsu • gantan • iwaibashi • Japanese New Year • kadomatsu • kagami mochi • new year • New Year's Day • New Year's Eve • New Year's food • osechi • osechi ryori • otoso • tradition)
Why is there a fish on this Shake Shack Japan T-shirt?
- Casey Baseel
Dec 19, 2022
The linguistic and cultural reasons behind the design of one of our burger-loving reporter’s favorite pieces of clothing.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • Ebisu • fashion • food • hambrgers • Japanese language • linguistics • Seven Gods of Fortune • Shake Shack • Shake Shack Japan • shirts • SNJO • t-shirts)
Starbucks Reserve Roastery sells lucky Japanese figurines to ring in 2023
- Shannon
Dec 17, 2022
Mermaids, whales, and rabbits are in for 2023.
- Japan
- (culture • dolls • Gosho ningyo • interior • New Year 2023 • Shimada Kouen • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Jimoto Made • Starbucks Reserve Roastery • Year of the Rabbit)
Kyoto’s uniquely beautiful New Year’s tradition is being carried on by Starbucks Japan【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2022
Before all of Japan had gacha machines, Kyoto had fukudama, and the coffeehouse chain is helping make sure the city still does.
- Japan
- (beautiful • capsule toys • coffee • cool • culture • fukudama • Gion • Kyoto • New Yaar's • Oshogatsu • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Jimoto Made • Year of the Rabbit)
Japanese conveyor belt restaurant delivers food by boat in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Dec 5, 2022
Floating meals are just the start of what makes this restaurant so memorable.
- Japan
- (COK • conveyor belt restaurants • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • culture • food • gourmet • hachioji • Hinatoriyama • Japanese food • Restaurant • SNJO • tradition • unique • water • weird)
Perfectly recreated 1960s Japanese apartment lets museum visitors go back to mid-Showa era【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 16, 2022
Matsudo Museum recreates Tokiwadaira Danchi, and a day in the life of old-school Japan.
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First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
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Evangelion announces collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe
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Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
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