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Spring, and cherry blossoms, may still be a little while ahead, but you’ll soon be able to enjoy a sweet taste of them at the Tsujiri tea shop in Kyoto!

Japan
(cafes • drinks • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • restaurants • sakura • sweets • Tsujiri)

Japanese drinks maker offers tiny Street Fighter V figures with cans of Umami Blend coffee

Jamie Koide
Feb 19, 2016

Japanese beverage company DyDo is celebrating its new blend of canned coffee and the release of Street Fighter V with these awesome, hanging character figures.

Games & Tech, Japan
(campaign • canned coffee • drinks • figures • games • Street Fighter V • video games)

New canned sakura liquor beverage appears in Japan, courtesy of Suntory 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Feb 17, 2016

Sakura Sakuranbo aims to please with two types of cherry flavors.

Japan
(alcohol • cherry blossoms • chu-hi • drinks • sakura • sour • Suntory • taste test)

Suntory offers Kahlúa liqueur with a Japanese twist: Matcha green tea flavor!

Kay
Feb 16, 2016

Kahlúa, the sweet coffee-based liqueur, is getting a Japanese makeover from Suntory Spirits and will be available in matcha flavor!.

Japan
(alcohol • drinks • green tea • Kahlúa • liqueur • matcha)

Sakura season comes early to Starbucks with two new Japan-exclusive dessert beverages

Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2016

No need to wait until spring to sip these cherry blossom and strawberry treats.

Japan
(cherry blossoms • chocolate • drinks • Frappuccino • sakura • Starbucks • sweets)

North Korea claims it has invented “hangover-free” alcohol

KK Miller
Jan 21, 2016

Another day, another wild North Korean claim, but is it science fiction, or a genuine scientific miracle?

North Korea
(alcohol • drinks • hangover • invention • science)

New glassware from Japan uses condensation to create sakura cherry blossom imprints on your table

Oona McGee
Jan 21, 2016

Because you might be too old to play with your food, but you’re not too old to play with your glasses.

Japan
(cherry blossom • cool • cute • design • drinks • glasses • hanami • sake • sakura • snow)

Japan gears up for foreign visitors with new interactive vending machine

Oona McGee
Dec 24, 2015

Have you ever looked at a vending machine in Japan and had no idea what the strange, kanji-labelled drinks were? Now there’s a new interactive service that will explain everything for you!

Japan
(cool • drinks • Olympics • technology • tourism • tourists • travel • vending machines)

Drink Green! We check out the amazing “Green Tea Party” presented by Isetan and Ito En! 【Pics】

Kay
Nov 9, 2015

Green tea has always been a popular drink in Japan and is widely consumed here even in plastic bottles. Visitors to Japan are sure to have seen a variety of green tea drinks at convenience stores or vending machines, including those from major tea and beverage maker Ito En.

Now, Ito En and department store Isetan have teamed up to put on a delightful promotional event which they’re calling the “Green Tea Party“, and the event is exactly that – one big tea party, where you can have so many different types of green tea and tea-based beverage creations that you’ll feel like you stepped into a wonderland of Japanese tea. Naturally, we weren’t about to stay away from a good tea party, so we made our way to the branch of Isetan in Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood. Let’s take a look at what we saw and tasted at the event, shall we?

Japan
(drinks • green tea • Ito En • matcha • Riedel • sweets)

Citrus-packing “Pepsi White” coming to Japan for the winter snow season

Oona McGee
Oct 29, 2015

When it comes to limited-edition beverages, Pepsi continues to rise to the occasion year after year. And just when we thought we’d seen the last of Pepsi’s seasonal releases for 2015 with their mystery-flavoured Halloween range, they go and announce a special Christmas present, with the release of a new Pepsi White Cola for this year’s winter season.

Japan
(Beverages • drinks • limited edition • pepsi • seasonal • Suntory)

Old tires and shoe soles said to be being used in bubble tea tapioca pearls

Meg Murphy
Oct 28, 2015

Bubble tea, also called boba, or pearl-tea, had its beginnings in Taiwan but has spread in popularity throughout the world. The creamy milk-tea dotted with chewy, gummy-like tapioca pearls and endless flavor possibilities makes this the perfect snack when you can’t decide if you want something to drink or something to eat.

The tapioca pearls that give these milky drinks their fun texture are made from cassava root. Or, at least they should be. But an investigation in China has turned up a “tapioca” plant that makes pearls from materials that aren’t even edible…

China
(boba • bubble tea • drinks • pearl tea • scary • weird • wtf)

Get your Christmas caramel toffee fix with sweet Starbucks Japan holiday drinks and goodies

Kay
Oct 26, 2015

It’s that time of year again! Starbucks Japan has announced their line of holiday beverages and goodies! Yes, it’s amazing how quickly a year seems to go by, isn’t it?

This year, the coffee chain will be offering their customers seasonal goodness featuring caramel and toffee (and plenty of whipped cream), and if that’s how they’re expressing their holiday spirit, well, we have to say, “Bring the holiday sweetness on!!!”

Japan
(caramel • Christmas • coffee • drinks • holidays • Starbucks)

Japanese drinks company attaches free “rental umbrellas” to its vending machines in Osaka

Oona McGee
Oct 23, 2015

Japanese vending machines are a great example of the culture of convenience so prevalent in Japan. Whether you’re after orange juice that looks like soy sauce, or a hot, clam-packed miso soup to cure your hangover, if you want something fast, the nation’s vending machines will be there for you, come rain or shine.

Now one of the country’s largest drinks manufacturers, DyDo, is catering to customers who actually do find themselves caught out in the rain, with a free “rental umbrella” service attached to a number of their machines in Nishi Ward, Osaka.

Japan
(drinks • Dydo • Osaka • rental • umbrellas • vending machines)

Kirin tea drinks now available in adorable and artistic mix and match Disney labels!

Kay
Oct 19, 2015

Step into a convenience store in Japan, and you’ll find no shortage of tea drinks—and not just Japanese green tea either. You’ll have a wide variety to choose from, including oolong tea, barley tea, jasmine tea and English-style straight, lemon or milk tea. And one of the most well-known tea drinks in Japan has to be the Gogo no Kocha (Afternoon Tea) line of products from major beverage manufacturer Kirin.

Well, the folks at Kirin have apparently decided to make their popular “Gogo-tea” drinks, as they’re sometimes called in Japan, into something artistic and playful as well. It’s the “Disney Design Label” line of their Gogo no Kocha drinks, and with these, you’ll actually be able to mix, match and play with the bottles!

Japan
(Disney • drinks • Kirin • tea)

Japanese-style sangria with sake and pear: One of the best things about fall【RocketKitchen】

Casey Baseel
Oct 18, 2015

If you’re someone who loves the sunshine and hates the cold, you’re probably feeling a little down that we’ve now undeniably entered autumn. Maybe you’re doing your best to look on the bright side by enjoying some tasty seasonal produce, like delicious Asian pears, or maybe you’re just trying to brace yourself against the advancing chill in the air with a stiff drink.

But why rely on just one of those coping strategies when you can employ both by whipping up an easy and delicious batch of Japanese-style sangria with fruit and sake?