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Kyoto’s crazy expensive luxury chirimen nut clusters cost as much as a lunch, but are they worth it?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 23, 2025
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A very unique, very pricy snack from Japan’s classiest town.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • expensive • expensive food • fish • food • Kyoto • nuts • snacks • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Bus driver who pocketed 1,000 yen in fares denied 12 million yen in retirement money

• Master Blaster
  Apr 20, 2025

Employer withholds 12,000 times what was taken from them.

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• Japan
• (bus drivers • buses • crime • embezzlement • Kyoto • Kyoto District Court • Osaka High Court • supreme court • transportation)

Kyoto Station partially evacuated as bomb squad finds sweet but unwanted surprise

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 14, 2025

Suspicious package report follows two cases of handguns being brought in to nearby international airport.

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• (COK • crazy • crime • Kyoto • Kyoto Station • stations • tourism • trains • travel • weird)

Kyoto’s most popular local sweets get a soft spin with Fuwafuwa Otabe【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2025

Taste-testing Kyoto’s newest selling-out sweet sensation.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Kyoto • nama yatsuhashi • Otabe • SNJO • sweets • taste test • yatsuhashi)

Naruto Shippuden x Maeda Coffee collaboration cafe event is coming to Kyoto this week

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 19, 2025

“Believe it!” or not, it’s the perfect season to enjoy coffee in the company of some old shinobi friends (and foes).

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• Japan
• (anime • cafes • coffee • drinks • food • Kyoto • Maeda Coffee • manga • Naruto • Naruto Shippuden • special menu • sweets)

As more foreign visitors visit Kyoto’s top sights, Japanese travelers increasingly staying away

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 17, 2025

Study finds locals avoiding famous temples and other spots booming with overseas tourists, heading elsewhere instead.

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• Japan
• (COK • Kyoto • overtourism • society • tourism • travel)

Kyoto’s most beautiful parfait cafes add sakura sweets for spring

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2025

Cherry blossom season arrives at Itohkyuemon.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cherry blossoms • Itohkyuemon • Kyoto • matcha • restaurants • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets • tea)

Kyotram brings new luxury look to public transport in Kyoto

• Oona McGee
  Mar 5, 2025

Glamorous streetcar on historic tram line is ready to give you the best ride around town.

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• (Arashiden • Kyoto • Kyotram • news • public transport • Randen • streetcar • streetcars • tourism • tram • trams • travel)

Experience picking your own tea with a side of history at Chazuna in Kyoto’s Uji City

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 18, 2025

We’re ready to spill the tea on this spring’s event in Japan’s most famous city for green tea.

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• Japan
• (Chazuna • COK • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • museum • tea • tea picking • tourism • travel • Uji)

Naked meets Kyoto’s Nijo Castle again for a nighttime sakura digital art immersive event

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 12, 2025

Thankfully, there’s still no actual nudity attached to these modern-meets-traditional installations to celebrate the spring.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • illuminations • Kyoto • naked • Nijo Castle • Ninomaru Goten • projection mapping • sakura)

Tourists in Kyoto cause chaos at railway crossing near Fushimi Inari Taisha

• SoraNews24
  Feb 4, 2025

Overtourism leads to frightening scenes at a busy train crossing.

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• (Fushimi • Fushimi Inari • Fushimi Inari Shrine • Fushimi Inari Taisha • Kyoto • news • overtourism • Railway Crossings • ryokan • tour guide • tourism • tourist sites • tourists • travel)

These nine Kyoto restaurants are the newest to receive Michelin guide recommendations

• SoraNews24
  Jan 15, 2025

Guide won’t be released in full until later this year, but here are nine Kyoto spots to add to your to-eat itinerary right now.

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• Japan
• (food • Kyoto • Michelin • Michelin Guide • Michelin restaurant guide • restaurants • tourism • travel)

Kyoto reportedly planning to raise hotel guest taxes, create highest accommodation tax in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2025

Top tier would charge 10,000 yen per person per night.

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• (accommodation tax • hotels • Kyoto • overtourism • ryokan • tourism • travel)

Starbucks teams up with 165-year-old Kyoto doll maker for Year of the Snake decorations【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 13, 2024

Higashiyama palace doll artisans turn their talents to Year of the Snake collection.

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• Japan
• (art • Chinese zodiac • COK • culture • interior • jimoto • Jimoto Plus • Kyoto • New Year's • Oshogatsu • Shimada Koen • Starbucks • year of the snake)

Scarier than a haunted house? Kyoto hidden-meaning “mean” manners escape house on the way

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 6, 2024

“Would you like some rice with green tea and pickles?”

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• Japan
• (crazy • culture • etiquette • funny • ikezu • Kyoto • manners • weird)

Kyoto cookies let you create your own edible 3-D forest world

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2024

Little Forest Cookie Can is like eating a page out of a storybook.

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• Japan
• (animals • autumn • bears • COK • comori • cookies • desserts • forest • Kyoto • sweets)

Kyoto Whopper divides customers at Burger King Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2024

Japanese rice specialist turns the Whopper on its head, but was it worth it?

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• Japan
• (Burger King • burgers • COK • cool • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kyoto • Kyoto Whopper • limited edition • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test • weird • whopper)

Taking the Kyoto overnight bus for the first time

• SoraNews24
  Nov 20, 2024

Udonko makes her maiden voyage on an overnight bus, but will she regret the decision?

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• Japan
• (buses • COK • Kyoto • overnight bus • SNJO • tourism • travel • Udonko • Willer • Willer Express)

Burger King Japan creates Kyoto Whopper, its most Japanese burger ever, with Kyoto rice merchant

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2024

237-year-old Kyoto rice merchant helps make a new kind of rice burger.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kyoto • rice • rice burger • whopper)

Beautiful Naked digital art event comes to Kyoto’s Nijo Castle after dark (contains no nudity)【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2024

As the sun goes down, the lights go on for an amazing illumination of Kyoto’s 345-year-old castle and its fall-color gardens.

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• Japan
• (art • beautful • castles • digital art • fall colors • gardens • Kyoto • light up • Nijo Castle • projection mapping • tourism • travel)

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