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One of the coolest restaurants in Tokyo isn’t actually always in Tokyo — Dining on the Tokyo Restaurant Bus

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 9, 2025
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We hop on the open-air mobile restaurant for dinner, drinks, and some of the Tokyo area’s most unique night views.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • buses • COK • cool • foods • kawasaki • Kawasaki factories • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel • Willer • Willer Express)

Final visit to the last Cold Stone Creamery in Tokyo before it closes leaves us with a bad taste

• Oona McGee
  Apr 24, 2025

Could the demise of Cold Stone have been prevented in Japan if they’d done this earlier?

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• Japan
• (COK • Cold Stone • Cold Stone Japan • foods • Harajuku • ice cream • swets)

Cold Stone permanently closing its final Tokyo branch, but why is the chain struggling in Japan?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 22, 2025

Once the hottest ice cream chain in the country, Cold Stone is now just one step away from completely disappearing from Japan.

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• Japan
• (COK • Cold Stone • Cold Stone Japan • foods • Harajuku • ice cream • swets)

After being snatched up by scalpers, Sailor Moon chocolate returns in officially marked-up complete box

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2024

Maker still has no trouble selling it, though.

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• Japan
• (anime • chocolate • foods • manga • Meiji • resellers • Sailor Moon • scalpers • sweets)

Drinkable Mayo on sale at Japanese convenience stores for mayonnaise fanatics

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 27, 2024

Lawson makes a bold move in the always competitive combini drink scene.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • crazy • drinks • foods • Lawson • mayo • mayonnaise • weird)

Amazing fruit bouquet crepes of Japanese sweets shop Eternity — a dessert you’ll always remember

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2023

Your stomach and eyes will thank you for making a stop at this seaside town’s side-street dessert spot.

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• Japan
• (COK • crepes • foods • fruit • Onomichi • SNJO • strawberries • sweets • tourism • travel)

Squid-themed ice cream comes to Baskin-Robbins Japan, but it’s OK because it’s a Nintendo tie-in

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2022

It’s like a Splatoon match in our mouth, and everyone’s invited to this taste test!

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• Japan
• (Baskin Robbins • COK • foods • ice cream • nintendo • SNJO • Splatoon • sweets • taste test • video games)

Mouthwatering Pokémon KitKat “ad” has us dreaming of the future of Japanese sweets【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 8, 2019

The lovingly animated concept video is too good to be true…for now.

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• Japan
• (anime • fan art • foods • KitKat • Pokemon • sweets • video • video games)

Japanese dad shares ingenious trick to keep kids (or yourself) from getting bored on the train

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 14, 2018

As usual, ice cream is the answer to our problems.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • foods • ice cream • kids • life hacks • Parenting • shinkansen • sweets • travel)

Cola-flavored mochi sweets are half Japanese tradition, half jiggly Pop Rock

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2017

Warabi mochi is usually flavored with soybean powder, but not in the case of these treats from Osaka.

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• Japan
• (Cola • foods • mochi • sweets • warabi mochi • weird)

Neco Meshi: The line of Japanese snacks that both you and your cat can eat! 【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 22, 2016

Snacks that cats and people alike can enjoy? It might not be as crazy as it sounds.

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• Cats, Japan
• (cats • foods • Neco Republic • pets • snacks • taste test • weird)

Five foods you should never feed to your cat

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 20, 2014

From Hello Kitty to the ubiquitous cat cafes, it’s no secret to our readers that Japan loves cats. Despite their tendency to view us humans as their own personal servants, we can’t seem to get enough of their fluffy cuteness and sometimes ridiculous antics. Whenever you need to smile, a silly cat video will usually do the trick.

So why not repay your cat by ensuring its healthy lifestyle? For starters, you can reevaluate your cat’s diet by checking out this list we’ve compiled of five at-a-glance foods that you should never feed to your pet. Maybe your kitty will thank you for your concern with even more purring and nuzzles (and no dead mice!).   

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• (cat • dangerous • foods • health)

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