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Tokyo bakery has a crazy expensive 10,000-yen bread loaf set, and we’ve tried it [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 19, 2026
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Japan’s luxury bread loaf boom was supposed to have died down, but apparently no one told this Ginza bakery.

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• Japan
• (bakeries • bread • COK • crazy • expensive food • food • Ginza • Luxury • SNJO • taste testxｘ)

Japan’s expensive “phantom” melon is so exquisite it sells out in just 12 hours

• Oona McGee
  Jul 28, 2026

Grown with special electrolysed hydrogen water, this ultra-sweet fruit reaches more than 17 degrees Brix.

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• Japan
• (expensive food • expensive fruit • food • fruit • fruits • gifts • japanese fruit • Japanese melon • Kusatsu • melon • melons • Shiga • SNJO • summer)

Japan’s Mos Burger goes super-premium for summer with eel burgers that require pre-orders

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 29, 2026

Summer is the season for unagi, and Mos Burger has some very special, and very expensive, sandwiches on the way to celebrate Doyo no Ushi no Hi.

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• Japan
• (burgers • crazy • Doyo no Hi • Doyo No Ushi No Hi • eel • expensive food • fast food • food • freshwater eel • Mos Burger • rice burgers • unagi)

Tokyo’s new extra-expensive ramen restaurant is dividing opinions, so we tried a bowl

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2026

Crab, Claaaaab, and high prices in Asakusa.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • crab • expensive food • food • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • restaurants • SNJO)

This Mother’s Day, why not give the gift of a single, really expensive, never-picked mango?

• Master Blaster
  Apr 28, 2026

Get your mother the mother of all mangoes.

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• Japan
• (crazy • expensive food • food • fruit • fruits • gifts • mangoes • Miyazaki Ripe Mango • Mother's Day)

Is Tokyo Station’s startlingly expensive wagyu bento boxed lunch worth its high price?[Taste test]

• SoraNews24
  Mar 3, 2026

The Yukifuri Wagyu Obanazawa Sirloin and Rib Loin Steak Rice Box has a long name, a high price, and our stomach’s interest.

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• Japan
• (beef • bento • boxed lunches • COK • Ekiben • expensive food • food • Japan travel • meat • SNJO • steak • taste test • Tokyo Station • tourism • travel • Wagyu)

Trying a pouch of instant curry that costs as much as a full meal at a nice restaurant

• Master Blaster
  May 30, 2025

Microwave-friendly fine dining!

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• Japan
• (beef • COK • crazy • curry • expensive • expensive food • food • instant curry • luxury food • Miyazaki wagyu • retort curry • SNJO • taste test • Wagyu)

Kyoto’s crazy expensive luxury chirimen nut clusters cost as much as a lunch, but are they worth it?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 23, 2025

A very unique, very pricy snack from Japan’s classiest town.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • expensive • expensive food • fish • food • Kyoto • nuts • snacks • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

This Tokyo rice ball takes 20 years to make and 2,000 yen (US$14.30) to buy, but is it worth it?

• SoraNews24
  Oct 1, 2024

Taste-testing Manma’s premium onigiri in Shinjuku.

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• Japan
• (Bongo • COK • expensive • expensive food • food • Manma • Miso • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)

Secret Kitchen bento serves Japanese flowers, birds, wind and moon in a box, but is it worth it?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 22, 2024

Luxury meal has a lot to live up to.

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• Japan
• (bento • boxed lunch • COK • crazy • expensive food • food • lunch deals • luxury food • shinjuku • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)

Our toughest blind taste test yet — can our writers pick out the more expensive mochi?

• Katie Pask
  Jan 29, 2023

This rice cake challenge proved tough for even our most experienced mochi eater.

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• Japan
• (expensive food • food • Gourmet Writers' Rating Check • Japanese food • mochi • ranking • rice • rice cake • SNJO)

We try a Le Lectier, the highest-quality European pear available in Japan【Taste Test】

• Dale Roll
  Dec 19, 2022

This luxury pear is grown almost exclusively in Niigata. Is it worth splurging on?

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• Japan
• (COK • expensive • expensive food • expensive fruit • food • fruit • Le Lectier • Niigata • pears • SNJO • taste test • yellow pears)

Can we pick out the Japanese premium priced persimmon in this blind taste test?

• Katie Pask
  Nov 30, 2022

Premium vs. supermarket — we try to avenge our persimmon failings from five years ago.

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• Japan
• (blind taste test • COK • expensive food • food • fruit • Isetan • japanese fruit • persimmon • SNJO • taste test)

We make meat-stuffed matsutake mushrooms and learn something important about luxury food

• Dale Roll
  Oct 8, 2022

A bargain deal on expensive ingredients makes our reporter think twice about her ideas of cooking. 

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• Japan
• (COK • expensive food • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • luxury food • matsutake • mushrooms • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test)

This sumptuous strawberry dessert at a Tokyo hotel is almost too stunning to stand

• Katy Kelly
  Dec 10, 2021

After witnessing such strawberry peaks, how can we ever be satisfied with lesser desserts?

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• Japan
• (delicious • dessert • expensive food • InterContinental Tokyo Bay • parfait • SNJO • strawberry)

Chuka Zanmai instant ramen offering ultra luxurious limited-edition two-meal seat for $50

• Dale Roll
  Jan 19, 2021

Ever wanted to try instant shark-fin noodle soup?

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• Japan
• (anniversary • Chuka Zanmai • expensive food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Luxury • shark fin • shark fin soup)

This ridiculously expensive Tokyo sandwich was worth every one of the 8,650 yen it cost us

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 22, 2020

Take-out from expensive restaurant in the most expensive part of Tokyo hurts the wallet, thrills the taste buds.

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• Japan
• (beef • COK • crazy • expensive • expensive food • food • meat • Mr. Sato • sandwiches • SNJO • steak • take-out • taste test)

What’s for dinner? A US$113/3.3-pound sushi bowl from one of Japan’s favorite cheap restaurants

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 17, 2020

Kappazushi is usually a friend to our budget…and maybe it still is with the Mega-size Crab and Salmon Roe Sushi Rice Bowl.

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• Japan
• (awesome • big food • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • crab • crazy • expensive • expensive food • food • ikura • Kaitenzushi • Kappazushi • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • taste test)

Tokyo has a “phantom egg shop” with ingredients for the best tamago-kake gohan rice bowl ever

• Dale Roll
  Aug 31, 2020

Don’t knock raw egg on rice until you’ve tried it, and especially until you’ve tried it like this.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • eggs • expensive food • food • pop-up shops • raw • raw eggs • rice • SNJO • soy sauce • tamagokake gohan • Tokyo Station)

Eating a 6,000-yen (US$55) sandwich on the Tokyo sidewalk: The best way to wait for a new iPhone

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 20, 2019

Mr. Sato gets decadent by sustaining himself with caviar while camping in Ginza to try to be the first person in Japan with an iPhone 11.

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• Japan
• (caviar • COK • crazy • expensive food • food • Ginza • iPhone • line-up • Mr. Sato • sandwiches • Smartphones)

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