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This curry restaurant might have the worst location in Tokyo…or maybe the best
- Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2026 - Tweet
Alk Road finds a way to turn a negative into a positive.
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Japan’s most popular curry rice restaurant chain, Coco Ichibanya, might be for sale
- Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2026
Economic and cultural factors are making it hard to make money selling one of Japan’s favorite meals.
- Japan
- (coco ichibanya • Cocoichi • COK • curry • curry rice • food • House Foods • restaurants)
Are Japan’s room-temperature curry packets the boxed lunch heroes we’ve been looking for? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2026
Packets of curry you can store and eat at room temperature could be the answer to our prayers for portable, smell-safe curry.
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- (bento • boxed lunches • clever • COK • cool • curry • curry rice • food • SNJO • taste test)
Japanese curry rice burger gets all the attention in Mos Burger’s new birthday celebration campaign
- Oona McGee
Jul 21, 2026
There are some showstoppers in this limited-time promotion, but the unique twist on Japanese curry rice is all we can look at.
- Japan
- (burgers • curry • curry rice • drinks • fast food • food • Japanese curry • limited edition • Lucky Bags • merchandise • Mos Burger • rice • rice burger • rice burgers • weird)
Japan’s favorite quasi-local curry launches convenience store version – Does it match the real deal?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 19, 2026
Is it worth go going to Family Mart to try the convenience store version of Go Go Curry?
- Japan
- (COK • curry • curry rice • Family mart • food • Go! Go! Curry • Japanese convenience stores • SNJO • taste test)
Is this Tokyo government office still one of the best places in the city for a curry rice lunch?
- Casey Baseel
Mar 9, 2026
Shinjuku Ward Office has a restaurant that’s open to anyone, but have they kept up their quality and value since our last visit?
- Japan
- (COK • curry • curry rice • food • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • ward office)
How to make curry in a rice cooker with zero prep work and no water[Recipe]
- Casey Baseel
Feb 19, 2026
Two steps, one piece of cooking equipment, and zero problems.
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- (clever • COK • cooking • cooking hacks • cool • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • Japanese curry • recipe • rice cooker • rice cooker recipe • SNJO • weird)
Crazy-cheap Tokyo lunch: All-you-can-eat curry rice for 220 yen (US$1.40)!
- Casey Baseel
Feb 18, 2026
We go looking for faults in this sounds-too-good-to-be-true Ikebukuro offer.
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Japanese instant curry promises flavor of day-old curry right away, and that’s a very good thing
- Casey Baseel
Sep 24, 2025
Ashita no Curry wants to time-warp you to the curry of tomorrow.
- Japan
- (cool • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • instant curry • Japanese curry • taste test • weird)
Japanese automaker Suzuki now makes instant curry, but does it rev our foodie engines?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 16, 2025
Believe it or not, there’s a very logical reason that one of Japan’s most famous car companies has gotten into the curry game.
- Japan
- (cars • COK • curry • curry rice • food • instant curry • SNJO • Suzuki • taste test • weird)
Cold curry noodles? Is Japan’s favorite curry rice restaurant’s idea crazy enough to work?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 10, 2025
Cold noodles and curry noodles are proven successes, but cold curry noodles is a new roll of the culinary dice.
- Japan
- (Cocoichi • cocoichibanya • COK • curry • curry rice • curry udon • food • Noodles • SNJO • taste test • udon • weird)
Crazy-big “Bam!” Hunk of Meat Curry returns to Japan’s favorite curry rice chain, price still rising
- Casey Baseel
Jun 9, 2025
This curry rice has so much meat it gets its own sound effect.
- Japan
- (big food • coco ichi • coco ichibanya • Cocoichi • cocoichibanya • COK • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • Hunk of Meat • meat • Nikukai • SNJO)
Japan’s most popular curry rice restaurant chain losing customers as it raises prices
- Casey Baseel
Jun 8, 2025
Ordinarily Japan can’t get enough Cocoichi, but some are saying enough is enough with the price hikes.
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- (coco ichi • coco ichibanya • Cocoichi • cocoichibanya • COK • curry • curry rice • food • restaurants)
Japan’s favorite curry rice restaurant chain also runs a bakery with more than just curry bread
- SoraNews24
May 20, 2025
Cocoichibanya’s bakery is hiding in plain sight in Shinjuku.
- Japan
- (bakeries • bread • Cocoichi • cocoichibanya • COK • curry • curry bread • curry rice • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)
Studio Ghibli retailer now sells Japanese anime curry with all the special utensils
- Oona McGee
Jan 18, 2025
Enjoy the taste of a Hayao Miyazaki movie classic.
- Japan
- (anime • anime merchandise • curry • curry rice • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Japanese curry • Japanese food • merchandise • Panda Kopanda • Panda! Go Panda! • Studio Ghibli)
Akihabara curry restaurant declaring bankruptcy after 50 years in Tokyo’s otaku neighborhood
- Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2024
Goodbye, Bengal.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • curry • curry rice • food • restaurants)
Can you defeat curry stains by hanging your clothes in the sunshine?【Experiment】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 2, 2024
Summer sun versus curcumin – FIGHT!
- Japan
- (COK • curry • curry rice • experiment • fashion • food • life hacks • science • SNJO)
Cost to cook curry rice rises to highest in 10 years, puts pinch on Japan’s budget-friendly food
- Casey Baseel
Aug 21, 2024
One of Japanese home chefs go-to cheap meals isn’t as cheap as it used to be.
Low price, free booze and curry, late check-out, and great location — Akihabara capsule hotel has it all
- Casey Baseel
Jun 16, 2024
Anshin Oyado is just a two-minute walk from Akihabara Station and has everything we need to get comfortable.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • all you can drink • Anshin Oyado • capsule hotels • COK • curry • curry rice • hotels • Pasela Resorts • SNJO • Tokyo travel • tourism • travel)
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Ichiran releases an at-home counter kit that turns your desk into a ramen restaurant
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Tokyo police arrest the Ame-zing Spider-Man
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Life-size Gundam head going on display in Osaka, hopefully will find permanent home
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