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Dojigiri, the millennium-old katana said to have slain a demon, is now on display in Tokyo【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 14, 2024 - Tweet
One of the Five Swords Under Heaven is now under the roof of this downtown museum.
Plan to use historic stones to build restrooms for the 2025 Expo draws criticism
- Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2024
These ain’t no fortunate stones.
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- (architecture • castles • crowdfunding • Expo 2025 • history • Kizugawa • Osaka Expo 2025 • restrooms • unfortunate stones • Yumeshima • zannen ishi)
Samurai Ninja Museum Tokyo With Experience is true to its name, lets you slice with real katana
- Casey Baseel
Jan 15, 2024
Hands-on history in Tokyo’s most historical neighborhood.
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- (Asakusa • awesome • cool • history • Katana • museums • Ninja • samurai • Samurai Ninja Museum Tokyo With Experience • travel)
Tokyo capsule toy machine gives you real samurai-era antique coins, but are they worth anything?
- Casey Baseel
Jan 13, 2024
Little capsules of history.
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- (capsule toy machines • capsule toys • coins • COK • cool • gachapon • history • SNJO • weird)
Japan’s most popular MSG maker had to battle some nasty rumors 100 years ago
- Casey Baseel
Oct 29, 2023
Aji no Moto tasted so good, some people thought there must be some creepy creatures on the ingredient list.
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- (Aji no Moto • Ajinomoto • COK • factories • food • gross • history • monosodium glutamate • MSG • SNJO • weird)
Stay in an eerie Japanese ryokan inn near Tokyo Tower for US$40 a night
- Oona McGee
Oct 28, 2023
Traditional accommodation in Tokyo’s ritzy Minato Ward doesn’t get much cheaper than this…but there’s a catch.
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- (architecture • beautiful • cheap accommodation • cheapo news • COK • cool • history • hotels • inn • Masanuki Sunakoma • Minato • reviews • ryookan • SNJO • Tokyo Tower • traditional Japan • travel • wakeari)
Does Japan owe one of its favorite foods to a bookstore owner? Trying the “original” Hayashi rice
- Dale Roll
Oct 21, 2023
There’s a legend that ties the origin of this popular dish to one of Japan’s biggest bookstores.
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- (books • bookstores • cafes • COK • food • hayashi rice • history • Maruzen • Maruzen Cafe • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)
This 7-Eleven convenience store causes a buzz with foreigners online
- SoraNews24
Oct 10, 2023
No other 7-Eleven in Japan can compete with this branch’s claim to fame.
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- (7-Eleven • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience stores • cool • history • imgur • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • news • SNJO • Tokyo • Toyosu • unusual • weird)
How should you use the small hiroen in a Japanese ryokan hotel room?
- Oona McGee
Sep 20, 2023
Answering a question that’s puzzled travellers for decades.
- Japan
- (accommodation • Ahiruneko • architecture • beautiful • COK • cool • culture • engawa • etiquette • hiroen • history • hotels • inn • Japanese accommodation • japanese architecture • Japanese inn • ryokan • SNJO • tradition • travel)
Japanese prison will become luxury hotel managed by country’s premier resort company
- Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2023
Hoshinoya Nara Prison’s guests’ stays will be shorter and more comfortable than Nara Prison’s occupants’ were.
Wear samurai armor while playing video games? That’s an option at this Japanese inn【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2023
Hokkaido ryokan lets you suit up in lamellar to play Dance Dance Revolution and Out Run.
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- (Arcades • awesome • cool • crazy • culture • game centers • history • hot springs • hotels • inns • onsen • retro games • ryokan • samurai • travel • video games • weird)
Decorate yourself and your home with ancient Japanese exquisiteness from Felissimo
- Master Blaster
Sep 5, 2023
C’mon and add some Jomon to your life.
- Japan
- (art • cups • cushions • earthenware • Felissimo • history • Jomon • Kaengata Doki • lunch bags • Ohkangata Doki • socks)
Hiroshima samurai house’s toilet and shrine show it wasn’t always easy being a warrior family
- SoraNews24
Aug 26, 2023
Small details tell some big stories.
- Japan
- (archetecture • COK • cool • Hiroshima Prefecture • history • SNJO • travel)
Fossil of an extinct crab discovered in a pillar at Tokyo Station
- Oona McGee
Aug 5, 2023
A fascinating link to the city’s ancient past…if you know where to find it.
- Japan
- (architecture • COK • cool • crabs • design • fossils • history • Japanese train stations • secret Japan • secrets • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo Station • tourist sites • train stations • trains • travel)
Tokyo’s coolest open-air museum gets even cooler with hot summer nights event
- Casey Baseel
Jul 27, 2023
Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum wants to take you back in time to an old-school summer festival.
- Japan
- (architecture • COK • cool • culture • Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum • festivals • history • Matsuri • museums • open air museum • SNJO)
Reflecting on an old red-light district in Tokyo as another landmark closes its doors forever
- Dale Roll
Jul 16, 2023
The neighborhood of Otsuka is very different from what it once was–and even more so without its most iconic building.
- Japan
- (batting cage • COK • geisha • history • Otsuka • pachinko • red light district • Showa • Showa Era • SNJO • Tokyo)
1,032 statues, and one thing too many people miss, at this Kyoto temple
- Dale Roll
Jul 2, 2023
And it was his first time visiting, too!
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- (art • Buddhism • Buddhist temple • COK • cool • culture • history • Kyoto • Sanjusangen-do Temple • sightseeing • SNJO • statues • Tasuku Egawa • temples • tourism • travel)
Himeji Castle gets first official Lego set, Zen block garden kit on the way too【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 27, 2023
Japan’s most iconic castle is yours to build in Lego form, as is a Japanese garden to soothe your mind.
- Japan
- (castles • COK • cool • culture • Himeji Castle • history • Japanese gardens • LEGO • Lego Architecture • toys)
Remembering the Great White Butt of Japan’s early Edo period
- Master Blaster
Jun 25, 2023
A tale of butts and death.
- Japan
- (Edo period • Great White Butt • history • Manji era • Miyagi • samurai • seppuku • Tome • Toyoma • yokai)
Japanese vending machine in Edo-period town sells a very rare type of tofu
- Oona McGee
Jun 23, 2023
There’s something so beautiful about modern conveniences in traditional surroundings.
- Japan
- (beautiful • COK • culture • haruka takagi • historical buildings • historical sites • history • Imaicho • Japanese vending machines • Nara • SNJO • tofu • tradition • travel • vending machines)
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