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Pokémon and Ikea Japan cross over into each other’s worlds with collaboration events

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 3, 2026
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Ikea is all about creating cozy living spaces, and ditto for Pokémon Pokopia.

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• (anime • COK • cute • ikea • ikea japan • interior • manga • Pokemon • Pokémon Pokopi • video games)

Ikea Japan closing two downtown Tokyo flagship stores — Why couldn’t they make it in the big city?

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 26, 2026

It’s not a total withdraw, but the chain’s downtown Tokyo footprint is going to get a lot smaller.

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• Japan
• (COK • furniture • Harajuku • ikea • Ikea Harajuku • ikea japan • Ikea Shinjuku • Ikea Tokyo • interior • society)

Ikea Japan’s matcha sweets fair is back, and with all-new green tea desserts!

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 26, 2025

Matcha Fair is now underway at Ikea Japan with brand-new green tea sweets for the winter holiday season.

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• (food • green tea • ikea • ikea japan • matcha • matcha sweets • sweets)

What happens when you seek refuge from the summer heat at Ikea in Shinjuku

• Oona McGee
  Jul 14, 2025

Surprising finds happen when you least expect them. 

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• Japan
• (COK • ice cream • ikea • ikea japan • Masanuki Sunakoma • shinjuku • SNJO • soft cream • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • summer)

Ikea holds a Matcha Fair in Japan for a limited time this spring

• Oona McGee
  Mar 28, 2024

Green tea sweets to celebrate the fresh greenery of the season.

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• (cakes • COK • desserts • food • green tea • green tea sweets • ice cream • ikea • ikea japan • matcha • matcha sweets • sweets)

We visit Japan’s first Ikea in northern Kanto before the official opening and it’s enormous

• Oona McGee
  Jan 18, 2024

The queue to get to the registers was just as crazy. 

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• (COK • furniture • Gunma • ikea • ikea japan • new opening • preopening • shops • SNJO)

Ikea Japan stopped selling soft serve ice cream?! We try what they’re now selling instead

• Dale Roll
  Oct 26, 2023

The loss of the Ikea soft-serve ice cream cone left a hole in our hearts…but can we fill it with something else? 

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• Japan
• (Ahiru Neko • ice cream • ice cream cone • ikea • ikea japan • soft cream • soft serve • soft serve ice cream)

Ikea Japan wants to furnish your stomach with matcha sweets with its new cafe dessert menu【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  May 13, 2023

Swedish homeware chain turns its talents to Japan’s representative dessert flavor.

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• Japan
• (cafes • food • green tea • ikea • ikea japan • matcha • restaurants • sweets)

Ikea’s cheap lucky bag captures the true essence of Japan’s fukubukuro tradition

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2023

Take a look at what we received for 1,000 yen!

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Ikea celebrates New Year in Japan with a fukubukuro lucky bag filled with surprises

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2023

Ikea says “Blåhaj!” to New Year by giving us a bunch of products that are just as random.

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• (food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • ikea • ikea japan • lucky bag • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • SNJO)

Celebrate Halloween at Ikea Japan with their special spooky menu

• Katie Pask
  Sep 9, 2022

‘Tis the season to eat lots of spooky treats!

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• Japan
• (food • halloween • ikea • ikea halloween • ikea japan • Restaurant • sweets)

Ikea Japan adds epic matcha sweets to its menu for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  May 31, 2021

Gorgeous celebration of matcha includes a very unusual tunnbröd you won’t find anywhere else in the world.

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• (desserts • food • green tea • ikea • ikea japan • limited time • matcha • shopping • sweets)

World’s first Ikea veggie dog specialty store opens in Shibuya

• Oona McGee
  Dec 3, 2020

The only place in the world where you can try 10 different Ikea veggie dogs. 

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• (COK • food • homewares • hot dogs • ikea • ikea japan • new opening • news • photos • Shibuya • shopping • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • vegan • vegetarian • veggie dog)

No Swedish meatballs but carbs galore: ranking all 16 Harajuku IKEA flatbreads【Taste Test】

• Ingrid Tsai
  Jun 15, 2020

Pick a god and pray for our reporter’s digestive system as he tries 16 different types of flatbread in one sitting.

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• (cafe • flatbread • food • ikea • ikea japan • taste test • Tunnbröd)

World’s first Ikea convenience store opens in Harajuku, Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 9, 2020

An urban twist on the familiar Ikea warehouse, now in the heart of Tokyo.

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• (Harajuku • homewares • ikea • ikea japan • new opening • news • photos • shopping • Tokyo)

What pandemic? People in Japan crowd Ikea store, ignore requests to stay home during Golden Week

• Oona McGee
  May 8, 2020

Hundreds risk spreading coronavirus for Ikea hot dogs and flatpack furniture.

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• (coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • government • ikea • ikea japan • news • Osaka • photos • social distancing)

Ikea hot dog lucky bag is one of the most unusual fukubukuro available in Japan this year

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2020

Ikea Japan gives locals a lesson on how to make a good hot dog for the New Year.

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• (food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • hot dogs • ikea • ikea japan • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • SNJO)

Ikea makes tiny blue tote bags for storage, but in Japan they’re used for anime figurines

• Oona McGee
  May 13, 2019

Ikea’s iconic blue bag becomes the hip new accessory for all comic-book character figurines this season.

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• Japan
• (anime • coin purse • cosplay • cute • figurines • ikea • Ikea bag • ikea japan • Kawaii • manga • miniature • shopping)

Visit this Tokyo-area Ikea to find furniture, Swedish meatballs, goats, and — wait, goats?!

• Andrew Kane
  Aug 20, 2016

We discovered an unexpected sight during a recent trip to an IKEA in the suburbs of Tokyo.
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• (cute • environment • goats • ikea japan)

Infiltrate your stomach with the new IKEA “ninja dog”

• Corey Gold
  Jul 5, 2016

If you think your stomach can handle the element of surprise, you may want to try IKEA’s new ninja hotdog – and, yes, it is very black.

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• Food & Drink, Japan
• (bamboo charcoal • black food • crazy food • hot dogs • ikea japan • Japanese food • kuro black • sumi ink)

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  3. We hunt for treasure at an all-you-can-stuff Kanagawa secondhand shop for just 1,000 yen
  4. KFC Japan releases its first thigh-meat fried chicken burger in 43 years, but was it worth the wait?
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  6. We waited three hours to get into the new carb heaven all-you-can-eat bread restaurant in Osaka
  7. American man runs out of money in Japan, gets arrested for overstaying tourist visa
  8. Man in Japan says monkey threw his cat into a pond before attacking him
  9. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  10. Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest Christmas celebration coming to Yokohama next month

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  1. What’s it like to stay in a Japanese container hotel?
  2. American man runs out of money in Japan, gets arrested for overstaying tourist visa
  3. Japanese milk carton cakes are a genius idea that the world needs to know about
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  2. Starbucks Japan unveils new Pokémon collaboration with Pikachu Latte and exclusive goods
  3. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  4. Studio Ghibli’s Calcifer is ready to light up your home as a magical-looking candle lamp [Photos]
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  7. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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