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Japanese high school closes its cafeteria, replaces it with a 7-Eleven convenience store

• Oona McGee
  Jun 6, 2026
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The first time a 7-Eleven has opened inside a high school in Japan.

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• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • convenience stores • cool • high school • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese high school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • kochi • schools • student life • students)

Super! Eel Bread takes Japanese sushi into uncharted territory

• Oona McGee
  May 21, 2026

Honouring a centuries-old tradition with a modern twist. 

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• Japan
• (bakeries • bread • breads • Day of the Ox • Doyo No Ushi No Hi • eel • food • kochi • summer • sushi • unagi • weird food)

Float all of your troubles away with a boat ride down the Shimanto River in Kochi Prefecture

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 1, 2026

Escape the urban sprawl by taking a tour on “Japan’s last clear stream” that will leave you clearly in tune with nature.

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• (boat tour • COK • Japan travel • kochi • Marie Morimoto • nature • outdoors • Shikoku • Shimanto City • sightseeing • SNJO • submersible bridge • tourism • travel • yakatabune)

Japan has only one airport named after a samurai, so let’s check out Kochi Ryoma【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 25, 2026

Local legend Sakamoto Ryoma was all about modernizing Japan.

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• (airports • COK • cool • culture • history • Japan travel • kochi • Kochi Prefecture • Sakamoto Ryoma • samurai • Shikoku • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Japan has trams that say “sorry” while they ride around town…but why?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 18, 2026

Gomen means sorry in Japanese, but in this town you’ll see it written on the streetcar destination displays.  

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• (Anpanman • COK • Gomen • Japanese train stations • kochi • Kochi Prefecture • Shikoku • SNJO • streetcar • Takashi Yanase • train stations • trains • tram • trams • travel)

Yakko Welsh Onion Tossing World Championships held in Kochi Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  Jun 6, 2025

Don’t play with your food, unless it’s a competitive sport.

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• (garlic chives • Guinness World Record • Kami City • kochi • nira • sports • welsh onion • yakko negi • Yakko Welsh Onion Tossing World Championships)

Beds on a bus: Travel on Japan’s first-ever full-flat overnight sleeper bus from Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Apr 19, 2025

Sommeil Profond is more like a mobile capsule hotel than a bus.

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• (bus travel • buses • Busta Shinjuku • cheap travel • COK • highway buses • kochi • Masanuki Sunakoma • overnight bus • overnight sleeper bus • shinjuku • Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal • SNJO • Sommeil Profund • Tokushima • tourism • travel)

We visit Kaiyodo Kappa Museum: dedicated to a yokai that loves cucumbers and human souls

• Shannon
  Jun 22, 2023

Kappa lovers — add Kochi Prefecture to your bucket list!

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• (haruka takagi • Japanese folklore • Kaiyodo Kappa Museum • kappa • kochi • Shimanto City • SNJO • travel • yokai)

This Kochi sightseeing spot is one of Japan’s “three most disappointing spots,” but should it be?

• Dale Roll
  Jun 18, 2023

In fact, this tourist attraction is four things–and a whole lot of history–in one!

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• (bridge • bridges • haruka takagi • history • Japan travel • kochi • Kochi Prefecture • Shikoku • tourism • travel)

Shikoku Island holds world landmark lookalike photography contest judged by AI

• Master Blaster
  Apr 18, 2022

Many of the greatest places on Earth are all on one rural Japanese island.

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• (AI • Ehime • Kagawa • kochi • photography • Shikoku • Tokushima • travel • world landmarks)

Quaint robot ninja virtual sightseeing tours to be held in Kochi Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  May 7, 2021

Probably the only time you’ll hear the phrase “quaint robot ninja.”

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• Japan
• (cool • Instagram • kochi • Ninja • NIN_NIN • robots • sightseeing • technology • tourism • travel • video)

Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare reveals the five prefectures with highest divorce rates

• Ingrid Tsai
  Feb 8, 2021

Surprise: Tokyo isn’t even close to the top five.

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• (data • divorce • kochi • marriage • Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare • relationships • society • statistics • Tokyo)

Otter mascot character Shinjo-kun kicks butt at Street Fighter tournament in full costume【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Jun 2, 2019

Bubble-headed mammal quickly becoming the darling of Japanese pro-gaming.

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• Japan
• (Daito Manabe • esports • Game Centers GP • kochi • Mascots • Shinjo-kun • Street Fighter V • video games • Yuka Kuramochi • yuru-kyara)

Japan’s new luxury sightseeing train will show you part of the country most foreigners never see

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2019

Toki no Yoake Monogatari lets you enjoy the ride as you travel off the Shinkansen-beaten path.

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• (beautiful • cool • Japan Railways • JR • kochi • luxury trains • Shikoku • sightseeing trains • trains • travel)

Chiitan’s management speaks out about copyright issues and future with Susaki City

• Master Blaster
  Feb 11, 2019

Chiitan’s management claim a city rep in charge of happiness told them “permission wasn’t needed.”

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• (anime • Chiitan • copyright • Kleeblatt • kochi • Mascots • Shinjo-kun • Susaki • yurukyara)

Chiitan the otter rejected as mascot character for Japan’s Susaki City due to reckless behavior

• Master Blaster
  Jan 19, 2019

That adorable otter just took one too many blows to the head for the liking of city residents and officials.

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• Japan
• (Chiitan • cute • kochi • Mascots • Otters • Susaki • video • weird • yurukyara)

Group of Japanese teens busted for marijuana, say “We wanted to be like foreign musicians”

• Casey Baseel
  May 15, 2018

High schoolers from rural Kochi Prefecture wanted to live the high life.

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• (crime • Drugs • kochi • marijuana • music)

Aquarium workers in Kochi resort to tweeting “Please come so we can get our salaries!”

• Katy Kelly
  May 12, 2018

The twitter account of an aquarium is willing to stoop to some serious lows to get more patrons. Literally!

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• (aquariums • dogeza • funny • kochi • Shikoku • weird)

“Annoying to put on clothes,” Kochi City official arrested for taking out garbage naked

• Master Blaster
  Apr 23, 2018

Not saying I agree with what he did, but he does have a point.

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• Japan
• (city official • crime • garbage day • kochi • public indecency • take out the trash)

Japan has an awesome river that looks just like a dragon

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2017

Body of water even has a connection to the creatures’ traditional role in Japanese mythology.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • dragons • kochi • nature • rivers • Shikoku • travel)

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