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Usher good luck into your home this New Year with Totoro tenugui from Studio Ghibli

• Oona McGee
  Oct 27, 2023
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My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away characters reimagined as New Year’s decorations.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • beautiful • Catbus • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • new year • New Year 2024 • New Year's 2024 • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • tenugui • Totoro • tradition)

Japan’s Gaming Kotatsu Futon blanket is here to keep you warm, and gaming, all winter long

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2023

Combining two of the best ways to cope with cold winter weather.

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• (Bauhutte • blanket • clever • cool • gaming interior • interior • kotatsu • video games • warm)

Studio Ghibli’s new Laputa: Castle in the Sky timer is as dramatic as the anime movie

• Oona McGee
  Oct 21, 2023

Pazu’s bag and the film’s iconic egg-on-toast also feature in this exciting new merchandise collection. 

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• (anime • anime merchandise • beautiful • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Laputa • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • merchandise • Muska • Studio Ghibli)

Small Totoro Little Room Lamp is back, still the most adorable Ghibli nightlight ever【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 20, 2023

Big cuteness comes in small (Totoro) packages.

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• (anime • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Studio Ghibli diorama calendars will put a little whimsy on your desktop all year long【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 11, 2023

And the fun doesn’t have to stop when the year is up.

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• (anime • beautiful • calendars • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Kiki's Delivery Service • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Japan’s Ramen Blanket wants to provide you with sweet noodle dreams【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 10, 2023

Ramen noodle maker wants us to sleep happy and full.

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• Japan
• (blanket • crazy • food • interior • Marutai • Noodles • ramen • weird)

New Super Mario lifestyle line wants to help you save money with coin-sound Warp Pipe bank

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 30, 2023

Nintendo Ichibankuji brings a little randomized Super Mario adventure into our homes.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • cool • drinkware • Ichibankuji • interior • lifestyle goods • Mario • nintendo • Super Mario • tableware • video games)

Studio Ghibli mini heroine dress sachets will have your home looking, and smelling, great【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2023

Costumes of three iconic Ghibli anime protagonists have been shrunk down to sachet size.

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• Japan
• (anime • aroma • Arrietty • cool • cute • Donguri Closet • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Kiki's Delivery Service • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • sachet • Secret World of Arrietty • Studio Ghibli)

We take a giraffe nap in a standing sleep pod at a cafe in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Aug 25, 2023

Testing the benefits of vertical sleep and coffee in Harajuku.

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• (cafes • coffee • coffee nap • COK • cool • crazy • Egawa Tasuku • giraffe • giraffenap • Harajuku • interior • nap • Nescafe • pods • sleep • SNJO • standing nap • standing sleep • Tokyo • weird)

Spirited Away bathhouse spirits become self-righting dolls in new Studio Ghibli collection

• Oona McGee
  Aug 8, 2023

These characters are here to remind you to never, ever give up.

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• (anime • beautiful • Boh • cool • cute • dolls • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • interior • Kashira • merchandise • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • toys)

Standing sleeping pods coming to Tokyo cafe, promise to relieve fatigue and stress【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 2, 2023

Nescafé Harajuku is offering the opportunity to nap like a giraffe.

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• (cafes • COK • cool • crazy • interior • nap • Nescafe • sleep • weird)

Studio Ghibli releases a My Neighbour Totoro skateboard clock in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jul 29, 2023

Now you can tell time by your skateboard.

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• (anime • beautiful • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • GBL • interior • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • skateboarding • skateboards • soot sprites • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Beautiful Ghibli glass tableware invites Totoro and Ponyo to lunch and tea time this summer【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 28, 2023

Perfect for iced tea, chilled noodles, or however else you want to cool yourself off.

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• (anime • beautiful • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • drinkware • glassware • interior • My Neighbor Totoro • Ponyo • Studio Ghibli • tableware • Totoro)

A story of how Starbucks Reserve Roastery products always make us forget about money management

• Dale Roll
  Jul 17, 2023

Who knows how they’ve turned us against our wallets?

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• (coffee • coffee cup • coffee mug • COK • drinkware • expensive • interior • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Reserve Roastery • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo • tableware • Yuichiro Wasai)

A beginner’s summertime survival guide to Japanese air conditioners – 4 tips to fight the heat

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 13, 2023

Summer in Japan will always be hot and humid, but your apartment doesn’t have to.

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• Japan
• (air conditioner • heat • hot • humidity • interior • life hacks • Living in Japan • summer)

Ghibli Window Wall Art series turns any wall into a portal to an anime wonderland【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2023

Three beautiful Hayao Miyazaki anime settings to visually connect your home to.

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• (anime • art • clever • cool • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Kiki's Delivery Service • Porco Rosso • veautiful)

Crazy affordable Sailor Moon lifestyle line unveils new items, almost all less than three bucks

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 16, 2023

3 Coins brings out new items with Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi to celebrate the finale of the anime’s reboot.

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• (300 yen shop • 300 yen store • anime • cool • interior • lifestyle products • manga • Sailor Moon • Three Coins)

Yu-Gi-Oh card bath towels in Japan keep duelists’ backs dry, if they have the skill to obtain one

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 10, 2023

Three classic Yu-Gi-Oh spells gain a new effect: drying you off after a shower.

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• (anime • card games • COK • collectible card games • cool • interior • manga • towel • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Gigantic super-affordable Sailor Moon lifestyle line comes to Japan’s favorite 300 yen shop【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  May 26, 2023

Three Coins collaboration offers dozens of items for the Sailor Moon fan on a budget.

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• Japan
• (300 yen shop • 300 yen store • anime • cool • interior • lifestyle products • manga • Sailor Moon • Three Coins)

Light-up Master Sword, Rupee dishes, and heart notebook all part of new Legend of Zelda merch line

• Casey Baseel
  May 8, 2023

Tears of the Kingdom teams up with Ichiban Kuji in celebration of the release of Nintendo’s newest Legend of Zelda game.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Breath of the Wild • cool • Ichiban Kuji • interior • Legend of Zelda • Master Sword • nintendo • Tears of the Kingdom • video games • Zelda)

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