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Stay in Love Live! Sunshine!!’s Mari’s glamorous room, relax like an anime schoolgirl idol
- Katy Kelly
Oct 3, 2020 - Tweet
Die-hard fans of the series can once more sleep in Mari Ohara’s bed, dry off with her monogrammed towels, and take her room key home as a souvenir.
- Japan
- (anime • Awashima • expensive • hotels • Love Live Sunshine!! • Mari Ohara • otaku • tourism • Wyndham Grand Awashima)
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.
- Japan
- (awesome • big food • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • crab • crazy • expensive • expensive food • food • ikura • Kaitenzushi • Kappazushi • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • taste test)
For the not-so-low cost of US$1,300 you can own almost every Pretty Cure collector’s badge set
- Ingrid Tsai
Aug 31, 2020
Emissary of Light, Cure… Badge!!!
- Japan
- (anime • badges • collector's item • crazy • expensive • magical girls • PreCure • Pretty Cure)
We drink a gold leaf-covered chocolate drink from Godiva and pretend we’re rich【Taste Test】
- Dale Roll
Aug 9, 2020
A delectable chocolate drink shrouded in gold? Count us in!
- Japan
- (chocolate • drink • expensive • fancy • Godiva • gold leaf • Kichijoji • Tokyo • whipped cream)
THAT MUCH for white rice and one tiny plum? Eating Japan’s most-expensive “cheap” bento【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 31, 2020
The “circle of the sun boxed lunch” is usually a friend to those with a lonely wallet, but not this one.
- Japan
- (bento • boxed lunches • COK • crazy • expensive • food • hinomaru bento • Isetan • SNJO • taste test)
Over 50 percent of single Japanese women in their 20s struggle to make ends meet, survey says
- Dale Roll
Feb 9, 2020
Young women in Japan are experiencing serious financial trouble.
- Japan
- (budgeting • cost of living • economy • expensive • finances • Japanese society • Low Income • Women in Japan)
Japanese collector shows off 31 Pokémon cards in collection worth a total of… how much?!【Video】
- Scott Wilson
Apr 14, 2019
Meowth used Pay Day! It’s super effective!
- Japan
- (expensive • Pokemon • pokemon cards • pokemon trading card game • rare • rare Pokémon • trading card game)
Hong Kong real estate developer builds new super micro condos smaller than a parking space
- Koh Ruide
Feb 2, 2019
Ends up selling only two of its 73 units.
- SE Asia
- (apartments • crazy • expensive • homes • Hong Kong • Housing • small homes • tiny homes)
The most expensive fish sausage we could find in Tokyo divides our opinions, empties our wallet
- Casey Baseel
Jan 3, 2019
When you send Mr. Sato out to do the shopping, sometimes he comes back with something crazy.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • expensive • expensive food • fish sausage • food • Isetan • kamaboko • Mr. Sato • SNOJ • taste test)
For the Dragon Ball fan who has everything: A gold super Saiyan Goku pendant with diamond hair
- Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2018
Anime’s most famous martial artist enters his ultimate-bling form, and so does one of his many rivals-turned friends.
- USA
- (accessories • anime • crazy • Dragon Ball • expensive • fashion • Goku • Son Goku • Vegeta)
Treat yourself to a luxury coffee made from a rare bean harvest at Lawson Japan
- Katy Kelly
Dec 12, 2018
Ever wanted to sip a rare coffee blend, made of beans from 100-year old trees in Panama? Lawson is here to help!
- Japan
- (coffee • convenience stores • expensive • food and drink • Lawson • Machi Cafe)
A visit to Tokyo’s fanciest coffeehouse for a 16,200 yen (US$143) bottle of coffee【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2018
This Ginza cafe treats its coffee like fine wine, so we sent Mr. Sato to sample a vintage.
The results are in from our one million-yen stack of Japanese lottery tickets! So, are we rich?
- Casey Baseel
Dec 3, 2018
”I did it!” says our reporter, but what was “it?”
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • expensive • funny • Go Hatori • lottery • lottery tickets • Lotto 6 • SNOJ • weird)
Kirin gives us a clue on how to get a bottle of its skyrocketing-price whisky for cheap
- Casey Baseel
Dec 3, 2018
Online prices for the soon-disappearing Fuji-sanroku Tarajuku Genshu 50 doubled in a day, but there’s still hope for those with shallow pockets.
Taste-testing Japan’s crazy-expensive 3,240-yen (US$29) persimmon
- Casey Baseel
Oct 30, 2018
We bought one of Japan’s shockingly expensive gift fruits as a gift for ourselves.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • expensive • expensive food • food • fruit • Mr. Sato • persimmons • SNOJ • taste test)
Mr. Sato finally experiences the zenith of bottom-wiping with 5,000 yen luxury toilet paper
- Katy Kelly
Oct 16, 2018
Can luxury toilet paper really be worth the exorbitant price tag? Mr. Sato orders some of the finest on the market to try it out.
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- Japan
- (expensive • luxury items • Mr. Sato • toilet paper • Toilets • weird • wtf)
14th richest man in Japan buys one of the world’s most pricey violins…to share with the world?
- Katy Kelly
Oct 4, 2018
Billionaire Yusuke Maezawa has purchased a Stradivarius violin. His promise to send it around the globe has netizens humming, but not in a good way.
- Japan
- (billionaire • expensive • violin • yusaku maezawa • ZOZOTOWN)
Japanese tea shop introduces $16-a-scoop matcha ice cream, has good reason for eye-popping price
- Casey Baseel
Jul 3, 2017
Not just any green tea is good enough to become Daijinsho Matcha ice cream.
Life-size gold Darth Vader mask is simply dazzling… and also worth US$1.4 million! 【Pics】
- Kay
Apr 29, 2017
This glittering mask made of solid gold is now on display at the GINZA TANAKA jewelry shop in Ginza.
- Japan, USA
- (Darth Vader • expensive • Ginza Tanaka • gold • Star Wars)
Japanese TV show guest finds heirloom tea bowl is one of only four pieces like it in the world
- Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2016
Centuries-old ceramic vessel could be worth as much as 1.6 billion yen (US$13.7 million).
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