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Enjoy the elegance of Edo at Shogun, Tokyo’s new experiential cafe

Elliot Hale
Apr 24, 2025
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Cultural crafts, performing arts and regional flavors combine in a tribute to one of the most important periods in Japanese history.

Japan
(cafe • calligraphy • COK • culture • drinks • experience • food and drink • iaido • katazome • kimono • Noh • shogun • tea ceremony • Tokyo • tribute foods • wagashi)

Foreign travelers’ lukewarm reactions to traditional Japanese inn food causing changes in Kyoto

Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2025

Classical part of ryokan culture is fading away at some inns.

Japan
(COK • culture • food • hotels • inns • Japanese inns • Kyoto • overtourism • ryokan • society • tourism • travel)

Studio Ghibli releases My Neighbour Totoro rush pillows and mats to keep igusa culture alive

Oona McGee
Apr 20, 2025

Japanese countryside tradition brings forest bathing into your home.

Japan
(anime • anime merchandise • culture • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • igusa • manga • mats • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • pillows • Studio Ghibli • summer • Totoro • traditional craft)

Lunch fit for a samurai lord: Japanese cafes offers castle bento lunches, sells boxes too【Pics】

Casey Baseel
Apr 7, 2025

Cafe’s location means it knows its customers will be in a samurai mood.

Japan
(bento • bento boxes • castles • culture • food • history • Katana • museum • restaurants • swords • tableware)

How to do an overnight bus trip to Hirosaki from Tokyo – Part 2【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Apr 3, 2025

Part 2 of our overnight bus trip from downtown Tokyo to castle town Hirosaki!

Japan
(Aomori • buses • Busta Shinjuku • COK • culture • food • highway buses • Hirosaki • Masanuki Sunakoma • Nebuta Matsuri • Neputa Matsuri • overnight bus • shinjuku • Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal • SNJO • tourism • travel)

A century of love – How dating and marriage have evolved in Japan

Elliot Hale
Mar 22, 2025

From arranged marriages to dating apps, relationships in Japan have gone through a big transformation over the last 100 years.

Japan
(arranged marriage • COK • culture • dating • history • marriage • relationships • romance • society)

Secret onsen hot spring is a hidden gem in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Mar 16, 2025

A rare onsen that uses 100-percent natural hot spring water pumped directly from the source.

Japan
(COK • culture • day trip • food • hidden gems • hot springs • Japanese food • ofuro • onsen • restaurants • rotenburo • sento • SNJO • Tokyo • travel)

Years of east-west Japan rivalry decided as McDonald’s officially refers to itself as “Makudo”

Master Blaster
Mar 13, 2025

I feel so vindicated.

Japan
(culture • fast food • Hatsune Miku • Kansai • Kanto • language • Makku • Makudo • McDonald's • nicknames)

Shovel shamisen is a quirky and fun addition to the Japanese music scene【Video】

Elliot Hale
Mar 8, 2025

What started as a garden tool is now a bona fide musical instrument.

Japan
(cool • crazy • culture • Japanese music • Japanese traditional music • music • shamisen • shovel • shovel shamisen • video • weird)

Deaths way up, births way down yet again in Japan as population shrinks faster than expected

Master Blaster
Mar 5, 2025

At least there are some things you can rely on these days.

Japan
(aging population • birth rate • culture • death rate • economy • Ministry of Heath Labor and Welfare • population • population decline • statistics)

Haneda Airport mobile tea ceremony lets you start, or finish, your Japan trip with a tranquil sip

Casey Baseel
Feb 13, 2025

Bilingual event seeks to introduce traditional Japanese culture to the wider world.

Japan
(COK • culture • Haneda • Haneda Airport • tea • tea ceremony • tourism • travel)

Japan’s unique tradition of bottle keep, where your drink literally has your name on it

Elliot Hale
Feb 2, 2025

It started with bars, but now even family restaurants are getting in on the act.

Japan
(Asami Oshima • Bamiyan • bottle keep • COK • culture • drinks • family restaurants • liquor • shochu • SNJO • tradition • Whiskey • Yumean)

New Era combines with old eras for amazing hat collection based on Japanese painting masterpieces

Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2025

Legendary ukiyo-e and mythological icons part of the collaboration between New Era and the Tokyo National Museum.

Japan
(art • baseball caps • baseball hats • caps • culture • fashion • hats • history • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • museums • new era • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • Tokyo National Museum • ukiyo-e)

Japanese onsen hot spring comes with 99 types of soy sauce for visitors

Oona McGee
Jan 17, 2025

All this awaits you on a short train ride from Tokyo.
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Japan
(COK • culture • day trip • food • hidden gems • hot springs • Japanese food • ofuro • onsen • restaurants • Saitama • sento • soy sauce • travel)

Japan’s wildest Seijinshiki Coming-of-Age ceremony celebrates new adults in Kitakyushu 【Photos】

Oona McGee
Jan 15, 2025

Crazy kimono fashion attracts big fans worldwide.

Japan
(bosozoku • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)

Japan’s most competitive neighboring prefectures are revealed in a recent survey

Elliot Hale
Jan 13, 2025

Tokyo and Osaka might be two of the biggest cities, but the most intense competition is felt somewhere more remote.

Japan
(COK • culture • prefectures • rivalry • society • survey • tourism • travel)

Is it OK to buy multiple shrine charms in Japan, or will it make the gods angry at you?

Casey Baseel
Jan 9, 2025

Japan has tens of thousands of shrines and even more omamori amulets, but is it OK to stock up on multiple blessings?

Japan
(amulets • COK • culture • good luck charms • Omamori • shinto • shrines)

Japan’s deadliest food claims more victims, but why do people keep eating it for New Year’s?

Elliot Hale
Jan 8, 2025

Journey into the history of a 1,000-year-old tradition to uncover why this dangerous delicacy continues to have its place on the dinner table.

Japan
(COK • culture • food • kagami mochi • mochi • New Year's • ozoni • rice cakes)

The etiquette rules for visiting Shinto shrines in Japan

Casey Baseel
Jan 7, 2025

There’s a whole lot of bowing involved.

Japan
(COK • culture • etiquette • manners • shinto • shrines • tourism • travel)

Disney Kabuki merch collaboration appears in Japan, but Mickey doesn’t play female roles

Casey Baseel
Dec 24, 2024

Is there historical precedent for Minnie Mouse to be a kabuki actress?

Japan
(culture • Disney • kabuki • Mickey Mouse • Minnie Mouse • Shochiku)

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