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Japanese Twitter discovers a crazy comfortable pillow has been hiding at Ikea
- Casey Baseel
Nov 12, 2020 - Tweet
A solution to three common sleep problems, but not one you’ll find in the bedding section.
All-plant-based katsu curry arrives at Ikea Japan
- Casey Baseel
Sep 14, 2020
Sustainability initiative replaces pork with something Ikea says tastes just as good.
- Japan
- (curry • curry rice • food • ikea • katsu • katsu curry • plant-based • vegan)
Our reporter makes a slip and slide out of Ikea gym mats, but does it deliver?【Video】
- Shannon
Aug 29, 2020
If you can’t go to the water park, bring the water park to you.
- Japan
- (clever • COK • cool • crazy • funny • Go Hatori • Go's roof • ikea • slip and slide • SNJO • weird)
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.
- Japan
- (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.
- Japan
- (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.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • government • ikea • ikea japan • news • Osaka • photos • social distancing)
Pink sakura season comes to IKEA store restaurants and cafes across Japan
- Kay
Mar 2, 2020
If you’re in the mood for pink foods, look no further this spring than IKEA stores in Japan.
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.
- Japan
- (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.
- Japan
- (anime • coin purse • cosplay • cute • figurines • ikea • Ikea bag • ikea japan • Kawaii • manga • miniature • shopping)
Ikea fukubukuro lucky bag gives us 10,000 yen worth of goods for 3,000 yen
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2019
One of the best bargains of the year.
- Japan
- (fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2019 • furniture • ikea • Lucky Bag Roundup 2019 • Lucky Bags • lucky Bags 2019 • new year • shopping)
Chinese people busted sleeping in beds at Ikea in new online video
- SoraNews24
Oct 18, 2017
Watch as a group of vigilantes goes around Ikea in China, using interesting tactics to get people up out of the beds in the store.
【Lucky Bag Roundup 2017】IKEA bed & bath bundle gives us $50 worth of goods for just 17 bucks!
- Oona McGee
Jan 4, 2017
Delving into this blue sack of surprises is like celebrating Christmas all over again!
- Japan
- (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2017 • homewares • ikea • Lucky Bag Roundup 2017 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2017 • New Year's)
【Lucky Bag Roundup 2017】IKEA packs 14 kitchen items into their fukubukuro for 17 bucks!
- Oona McGee
Jan 2, 2017
This is one of the best value-for-money lucky bags on the market this year.
- Japan
- (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2017 • ikea • kitchen goods • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2017 • New Year's)
This hotplate from IKEA Taiwan works only once diners surrender their smartphones【Video】
- KK Miller
Jan 29, 2016
This customer experience is blowing up all over social media, or it would be if anyone could get to their cell phones.
IKEA Japan lucky bags? We’ve got them covered!【2016 Lucky Bag Roundup】
- Kay
Jan 6, 2016
Yes, in Japan, even IKEA offers new year’s lucky bags — join us to find out what goodies were in their fukubukuro this year!
- Europe, Japan
- (ikea • lucky bag • New Year's)
Ikea Singapore releases Christmas carol ad with adjustable “merry meter”【Video】
- Jamie Koide
Dec 12, 2015
Can’t wait for Christmas or feeling a bit grinchy? Either way, Ikea is here to help with this cute, interactive commercial!
All You Can Eat salmon for 999 yen at IKEA’s Salmon Festival!
- Master Blaster
Sep 18, 2015
Fans of the famously delicious fish salmon in Japan should grab your bibs because the Salmon Festival is rolling into IKEA stores all over the country. On this joyous occasion we may dine on 16 different kinds of salmon dishes.
Of course it wouldn’t be a festival if it weren’t all-you-can-eat as well, so IKEA is making that happen for the attractive price of only 999 yen (US$8.30) for a limited time.
All-you-can-eat buffet for 500 yen?! Mr. Sato investigates
- Meg Murphy
May 31, 2015
Swedish furniture store Ikea has made a name for itself worldwide, not only for the size of its stores and decently priced, assemble-it-yourself furnishings, but also for the extremely cheap fare found in their food courts.
Now, they’re really putting the icing on the cake: For a limited time, Ikeas across Japan are having an hour-long all-you-can-eat “Oriental Buffet” for the insane price of only 500 yen (US$4)! But what will only 500 yen get you, you ask? Actually quite the spread, it seems!
Treat your cat to this tiny IKEA bed and they might just love you for it 【Pics】
- Cara Clegg
Apr 9, 2015
IKEA is the go-to place for anyone looking to furnish their home on a budget, while keeping it stylish and homogeneous. And they don’t just cater to humans anymore!
Happy Fastlagen! IKEA brings a sweet piece of Sweden to Japan with all-you-can-eat dessert buffet
- Kay
Feb 6, 2015
Swedish home furnishing company IKEA, as many of you are undoubtedly aware, has a huge presence around the world, and Japan is no exception. Thousands of us enjoy wandering around their gargantuan stores on the weekends, gazing at their pop furniture displays and homeware or wolfing down a serving of their Swedish meatballs at their cafeteria.
Well now, IKEA Japan has news that’s sure to please sweets lovers in particular — for a limited time, they’re be offering an all-you-can-eat “Sweets Buffet”, which includes some delightful-looking Swedish treats that we’re dying to try, for the very reasonable price of 499 yen (US$4.25)! Who wouldn’t be excited about sweet news like that?
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