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Uber Eats Japan offering strange discount just for people who don’t really need Uber Eats
- Casey Baseel
Oct 16, 2020 - Tweet
Telling the food delivery company you don’t need them to deliver your food nets you some extra cash.
New Japan Rail Pass for non-Japanese passport holders coming soon
- Oona McGee
Oct 7, 2020
Limited-time pass offers huge discounts on train travel in and around Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • deals • discounts • East Japan Railway • foreigners in Japan • Japan Railways • JR • JR East • shinkansen • tourism • trains • travel)
No-charge karaoke rooms now available across Japan to keep country singing during the pandemic
- Casey Baseel
Sep 26, 2020
Karaokekan shifts to a new strategy.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • deals • free • karaoke • Karaokekan • music)
Japanese domestic flights for just 500 yen (US$4.70) is one of the greatest travel bargains ever
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2020
Fly from Tokyo to Okinawa for less than the price of a fancy Starbucks coffee…but you’ll need to hurry.
Downtown Tokyo hotel makes its rooms absolutely free in exchange for one small favor
- Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2020
All it takes is a few seconds to earn a free night, and they’ll even give you complimentary beer and sashimi.
Shinkansen bullet train tickets go half-off until spring of next year in east Japan travel push
- Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2020
11 different routes from Tokyo offering huge discounts.
- Japan
- (COK • deals • Japan Railways • JR • JR East • shinkansen • trains • travel)
Legendary Tokyo bento shop offers free food 24 hours a day for one month if it meets Twitter goal
- Casey Baseel
Jul 4, 2020
Kitchen Dive’s craziest, most generous offer yet.
- Japan
- (bento • big food • boxed lunches • crazy • deals • food • free • Kitchen DIVE)
Ramen restaurant in Japan offers lifetime free ramen plan for a hefty price
- Casey Baseel
Jun 24, 2020
”You can reduce your food costs to zero for the rest of your life” says popular iekei-style ramen restaurant.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • awesome • crazy • deals • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • subscriptions)
Japan’s best train pass, the Japan Rail Pass, finally being made available for purchase online
- Casey Baseel
Feb 18, 2020
After years of complicated and added-expense hoops to jump through, JR will start letting international travelers buy their passes online and inside their home countries.
- Internet, Japan
- (deals • Japan Rail Pass • Japan Railway • JR • JR pass • shinkansen • trains • travel)
Tokyo food budget savior: All-you-can eat yakiniku, every night for less than four bucks
- Casey Baseel
Jan 8, 2020
Japan’s most popular yakiniku chain has an unbelievable deal that makes it seem crazy to eat anywhere else.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • awesome • deals • food • Gyukaku • Korean barbecue • meat • restaurants)
White Curry Udon: A new take on noodles discovered at a Japanese airport
- Oona McGee
Oct 18, 2019
Part curry, part noodles, part Shepherd’s Pie, this is a unique dish worth travelling for.
- Japan
- (airports • awesome • COK • curry • deals • food • Fukuoka • hakata • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • travel • udon)
All-you-can-drink deal lets you chug down unlimited alcohol at 138 Japan locations for a month
- Koh Ruide
Oct 7, 2019
At just $37, you can easily get your money back with just ten drinks.
This just might be the best affordable hotel breakfast buffet in all of Japan【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2019
Business hotel makes breakfast a pleasure with morning cutlets, hot pot, and miso.
- Japan
- (awesome • breakfast • buffets • business hotels • COK • deals • food • hotels • Miso • Nagoya • SNJO • travel)
Piranha Ramen is now a thing, and it’s coming to Japan for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Aug 22, 2019
Dubbed a world-first, this terrifying noodle dish is made with 100-percent piranha broth.
One of Japan’s best ramen chains is offering five free beers for every bowl of ramen you order
- Casey Baseel
Aug 21, 2019
Ramen is good, ramen and beer is doubly good, and ramen and five beers is sextuply good.
Yoshinoya in Japan has an amazingly cheap all-you-can-drink plan for you booze-and-beef cravings
- Casey Baseel
Jun 29, 2019
It’s been said that beef is best, but beef with unlimited alcohol is even better.
- Japan
- (Ahiru Neko • alcohol • all you can drink • beef bowls • COK • deals • drinks • fast food • food • gyudon • restaurants • SNOJ • Yoshinoya)
From Tokyo to Hokkaido for under 50 bucks in train tickets–Part 2 of our Japanese rail voyage
- Casey Baseel
Sep 14, 2018
The conclusion of our slow-life adventure to Japan’s northernmost prefecture with trains, hot springs, and so muh delicious seafood.
- Japan
- (awesome • COK • cool • deals • Hokkaido • Japan Railways • Seishun 18 Ticket • SNOJ • Tohoku • trains • travel)
From Tokyo to Tohoku for less than 25 bucks? Our epic Seishun 18 Ticket Japanese train voyage
- Casey Baseel
Sep 12, 2018
Skip the Shinkansen and savor the journey with Japan’s ultra-affordable unlimited-use one-day rail passes.
- Japan
- (awesome • ccol • COK • deals • Hokkaido • Japan Railways • Seishun 18 Ticket • SNOJ • Tohoku • trains • travel)
KFC Japan goes beyond its all-you-can-eat deals and is now offering free fried chicken!
- Casey Baseel
Sep 7, 2018
We all get a present because it’s someone else’s birthday.
- Japan
- (COK • deals • fast food • free • free food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC)
Popular revolving sushi chain restaurant offers tantalizing all-you-can-eat sushi deal
- Koh Ruide
Jul 23, 2018
For as little as $14, customers will be treated with unlimited sushi and drinks for an unforgettable meal.
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Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
Studio Ghibli creates illustrated Kyoto sightseeing map, available at any 7-Eleven Japan store
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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
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
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Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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