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Human washing machine pods coming to Japanese hotels【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 9, 2025 - Tweet
Pods wash you with no scrubbing or effort on your part.
Fire breaks out in Kyoto hotel, mobile battery to blame
- Casey Baseel
Oct 8, 2025
Hotel is located across street from Kyoto Station, had more than 1,000 guests inside when fire started.
- Japan
- (fire • hotels • Kyoto • mobile batteries • mobile battery • technology • tourism • travel)
Japanese inn with analog photo studio is a classic way to preserve your timeless travel memories
- Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2025
Great-grandson of former owner reopens hotel in Shimane.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • hotels • inns • Japanese inns • photography • retro • ryokan • Shimane • travel.tourism)
Buying a Dream Candle to cheer up a lonely birthday in a gloomy hotel room
- Master Blaster
Sep 8, 2025
Add a touch of pyrotechnics to your special day.
- Japan
- (Birthday • candles • Don Quijote • Dream Candle Deluxe • hotels • Ikuna Kamezawa • shopping • travel)
Firefighters called after overheating mobile battery placed in hotel fridge in Hokkaido
- Master Blaster
Aug 30, 2025
But is the fridge to blame?
- Japan
- (electronics • explosion • fire • hazard • Hokkaido • hotels • mobile battery • safety • thermal runaway)
Tokyo hotel has a special room just for Gundam Gunpla plastic model builders【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 27, 2025
Anime-themed room has everything you need to build a Gundam model, including free kits.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cool • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • hotels • manga • mecha • models • robots • SNJO • tourism • travel)
With sushi breakfasts and hot spring baths, this Tokyo hotel could really use a different name
- Casey Baseel
Aug 26, 2025
“Dormitory” doesn’t do this place justice.
- Japan
- (COK • Dormy Inn • hot springs • Hotel Dormy Inn • hotels • onsen • ramen • SNJO • sushi • travel.tourism)
Sanrio’s Kuromi Kuromifies high tea with Kuromi Afternoon Tea Party in Japan【Photos】
- SoraNews24
Aug 13, 2025
We get classy and cute on a trip to Tohoku to try Kuromi’s take on afternoon tea.
- Japan
- (afternoon tea • cafes • COK • cute • hotels • Kuromi • restaurants • Sanrio • Sendai • SNJO • sweets • tea • tourism • travel • Westin • zunda)
Gundam Wing dinner show to be held at fancy hotel in downtown Tokyo with brand-new scene
- Casey Baseel
Aug 11, 2025
Heero Yuy isn’t going to kill you while you eat, but his voice actor is going to read an all-new Gundam Wing scene.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • Gundam • Gundam Wing • hotels • manga • mecha • Prince Hotels • robots • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)
Tokyo hotel creates Evangelion rooms and Evangelion lounges for fans to mingle in【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 24, 2025
Ikebukuro hotel and anime series are both celebrating milestones this year.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • Evangelion • hotels • Ikebukuro • manga • Prince Hotels • Sunshine City • tourism • travel)
For the ladies – An awesomely authentic old-school capsule hotel that accepts female travelers
- Casey Baseel
Jul 22, 2025
Our experience traveler/capsule hotel newbie spends a night at Apaiser.
- Japan
- (capsule hotels • hotels • Ikuna Kamezawa • Nagoya • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Sake bread and cakes, using one of Japan’s best brews, can only be bought at one Tokyo bakery
- Casey Baseel
Jul 16, 2025
The star of the Yamaguchi sake scene shows up in Shinjuku baked goods, and we’re ready for a trio of taste tests.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anpan • bread • cake • COK • Dassai • drinks • food • hotels • keio plaza hotel • sake • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
The old-school awesomeness of the New Akao, a Showa-era hot spring hotel still standing tall
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2025
Timeless scenery and retro luxury are waiting for travelers in Atami.
- Japan
- (Atami • COK • hot springs • hotels • onsen • retro • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Prefecture • Showa • Showa period • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Japanese hotel offering sports car touge tours, no Japanese-language ability required
- Casey Baseel
Jul 13, 2025
Mt. Fuji-area hotel offers two routes, one to a mountain pass holy ground.
- Japan
- (awesome • cars • COK • cool • driving • Fuji Speedway • Fuji Speedway Hotel • hotels • JDM • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji lakes • sports cars • touge • tourism • TOYOTA • travel)
Soon you’ll be able to spend the night in a convenience store parking lot when traveling in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2025
Lawson convenience stores adding car camping program at select locations.
- Japan
- (camping • cars • Chiba • convenience stores • cool • crazy • hotels • Lawson • tourism • travel • weird)
Calpis taps to flow at 1,000 sites across Japan in new plan from beverage maker Asahi
- Casey Baseel
Jun 29, 2025
Yogurt-like drink has been beloved by Japanese people young and old for generations.
- Japan
- (Asahi Soft Drinks • Calpico • Calpis • cool • crazy • drinks • hotels • soft drinks • weird)
Kyoto skincare brand releases…a chocolate mint parfait in Tokyo?!?
- Oona McGee
Jun 22, 2025
Beauty may be skin-deep, but this parfait reaches deeper.
- Japan
- (accomodation • COK • cosmetics • culture • Hoshino Resort • hotels • Kyoto • OMO5 Kyoto Gion • travel • winter • Yojiya)
Major Japanese hotel chain says reservations via overseas booking sites may not be valid
- Casey Baseel
Jun 19, 2025
Travelers urged to confirm status of their reservations, including those made through one of the most popular overseas services.
- Japan
- (Agoda • hotels • Japan travel • tourism • Toyoko Inn • travel)
Awesome tempura soba noodle breakfast makes this Tokyo hotel near Akihabara a budget travel hero
- Casey Baseel
Jun 17, 2025
Skip the morning convenience store run and charge up for the day ahead with delicious seasonal tempura.
- Japan
- (breakfast • COK • Dormy Inn • Dormy Inn Premium • food • hotel breakfast • hotels • Noodles • SNJO • soba • tempura • tourism • travel)
Foreign tourists outnumber Japanese ones at Kyoto hotels for first time ever
- Casey Baseel
Jun 14, 2025
Japan’s former capital experiences a historic first as inbound travel boom continues and Japanese travelers avoid staying in the city.
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