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Beautiful off-the-beaten-path spot near samurai castle in rural Japan looks like a Monet painting

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 12, 2026
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Here’s today’s reason not to skip Gifu in your Japan travel plans.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • castles • COK • fish • Gifu • Gifu Prefecture • Inuyama • Inuyama Castle • Japan travel • koi • Monet • nature • outdoors • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Yoshinoya gets into fancy fish, but is the cheap beef king reaching too far? [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2026

Japan’s biggest beef bowl chain is now serving up simmered kinmedai.

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • fast food • fish • food • gyudon • kinmedai • restaurants • sea bream • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)

We ate sushi made from Japan’s most expensive tuna ever【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 9, 2026

Tokyo’s  record-breaking New Year’s Day fish market auction tuna arrives at one of Japan’s favorite casual sushi restaurant chains.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • expensive • fish • food • ichiban maguro • maguro • SNJO • sushi • Sushi Zanmai • taste test • Tokyo fish market • tuna)

Tokyo fish market breaks New Year auction record as single fish sells for over 500 million yen【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 6, 2026

Casual sushi restaurant chain spends big on Toyosu Market’s first day of 2026.

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• Japan
• (crazy • expensive • fish • food • ichiban maguro • maguro • sushi • Sushi Zanmai • Tokyo fish market • Toyosu Market • tuna • tuna auction)

New fish discovered and named “Vanderhorstia supersaiyan” for obvious reasons

• Master Blaster
  Nov 29, 2025

Fish possibly caught right after its best friend Krilin was killed.

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• Japan
• (anime • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Z • electric goby • fish • manga • nature • Okinawa • science • Super Saiyan • University of the Ryukyus • Vanderhorstia supersaiyan)

Yakiniku without the niku? New Tokyo restaurant applies yakiniku concepts to sashimi-grade fish

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 20, 2025

Yakiuo Ishikawa Ginza Rinkaro serves up a very unique crossover of meat and seafood traditions.

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• (COK • fish • food • meat • sashimi • seafood • SNJO • sushi • yakiniku)

Japanese highway rest stop slow-melting ice cream fish dessert: An offer too strange to refuse

• SoraNews24
  Aug 20, 2025

There are several things in that concept that might not seem like they should go together, but we can’t so no to a dessert this unique.

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• Japan
• (Chikuwa • COK • crazy • fish • fish cakes • fish sausage • food • highwat rest stops • ice cream • Kariya Highway Oasis • neruimono • parking areas • rest stops • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird)

Is splendid alfonsino ochazuke from a vending machine too fishy, or splendidly delicious?

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 13, 2025

First we had to track down the vending machine in question.

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• Japan
• (canned • COK • crazy • fish • food • kinmedai • ochazuke • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • splendid alfonsino • taste test • tasting • vending machine • vending machines • weird)

Eel that looks like a banana caught in Shimane Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  Jun 6, 2025

Come, Mister tally man, tally me eel.

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• (bananas • eels • fish • fishing • Izumo City • rare animals • Shimane Prefecture)

Respect the salmon – a visit to an off-the-beaten-path foodie destination in Niigata【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 22, 2025

This charming town on the Sea of Japan coast is a great place to dive into a local culinary culture without massive tourist crowds.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • dried salmon • fish • food • Murakami • Niigata • restaurants • salmon • seafood • shiobiki • SNJO • tourism • travel)

In search of the fish with a human face in Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 20, 2025

Travel to a hidden spot that’s home to a carp with a human face.

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• Japan
• (carp • cool • fish • koi • SNJO • travel • Yamagata • Yamagata Prefecture)

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

Shirasu ice cream at top Japanese tourist spot terrifies some, delights others

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2025

Can ice cream sweeten the deal of eating dozens of baby sardines as their eyes stare at you?

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• Japan
• (Enoshima • fish • food • ice cream • local specialties • restaurants • shirasu • SNJO • specialty • specialty food • sweets • taste test • tourist sites • weird food • werid • whitebait)

Edible deep-fried “coal” souvenir ignites our curiosity, so naturally we try it for ourselves

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 11, 2025

Spoiler alert: No, it’s not really coal, but it could seriously be a carbon copy.

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• Japan
• (coal • edible • fish • food • Fukushima • Iwaki • local product • marlin • taste test • weird)

People in Japan are eating a lot less fish now than they used to, but why?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 19, 2025

Japan’s per-person fish consumption has dropped by almost 50 percent in just a generation.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • fish • food • seafood • society)

The Japanese Valentine’s treats that look like chocolates but taste like the ocean

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 6, 2025

Move over chocolates. Nothing says “I love you” more than a heart full of fish paste.

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• (COK • cool • fish • fish cakes • food • satsuma-age • satuma-age • SNJO • Uoman • Valentine's Day • weird)

Japanese aquarium installs fake people to keep apparently lonely sunfish company【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 22, 2025

Aquarium won’t have real visitors for several months, but in the meantime this fish has some cardboard ones.

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• (animals • aquariums • COK • cute • fish • Mola mola • moving • Shimonoseki • sunfish • touching • video)

Can our pregnant reporter find fulfilment by eating only non-raw foods at Sushiro?

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 20, 2025

A pregnancy craving turned into a challenge to see what other delicious dishes the popular sushi chain can offer women in the same boat.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • dessert • fish • kaiten sushi • menu • non-raw sushi • pregnant • raw food • side dishes • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro)

Visit to a Japanese fish market has us trying tuna eggs for the first time【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2024

Japan loves eating tuna and fish eggs, but can we love eating tuna eggs?

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • crazy • fish • food • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test • tuna • weird)

Dynamic, delicious sashimi searing lesson will show you the true flavor of katsuo tataki【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 26, 2024

Shizuoka shop serves up some of the best bonito we’ve ever had, and lets you be part of making it.

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• Japan
• (bonito • COK • cooking • cool • fish • food • katsuo • katsuo tataki • sashimi • SNJO • sushi)

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