late night – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today. Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:00:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/en_rocket_1024.png?w=32 late night – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com 32 32 176746664 Mr. Sato indulges in some trendy late-night ice cream at this specialty store https://soranews24.com/2023/07/11/mr-sato-indulges-in-some-trendy-late-night-ice-cream-at-this-specialty-store/ https://soranews24.com/2023/07/11/mr-sato-indulges-in-some-trendy-late-night-ice-cream-at-this-specialty-store/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:00:47 +0000 https://soranews24.com/?p=629441 
Japan’s latest sweets trend finally reaches Mr. Sato’s neighborhood!
There’s been a new trend in Japan that’s been quietly gaining popularity since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s late-night ice cream stores. Sure, ice cream at any time of the day is great, but there’s something almost naughty about going out to get ice cream when the sun has set.
Mr. Sato has been longing to get his mitts on some late-night ice cream for a while now. There were a bunch of late-night ice cream stores that had opened up elsewhere in Tokyo, but unfortunately the trend had taken some time to reach his neighborhood of Koenji.
Koenji is an area of Tokyo that’s known for its good food, and has plenty of bars and izakaya to keep you fed and watered. But there was simply nowhere to get a late-night post-bar ice cream — even the local Baskin-Robbins had closed down.
So Mr. Sato was delighted to see that a store called Yolu Ice had opened up in the area, just in time for the summer.
This ice cream shop offers a total of 13 different flavors on their menu, which come in beautifully presented cups adorned with chocolate, fruit, Mont Blanc, and other exquisite toppings.
The prices range from 680 to 730 yen (US$4.80 to 5.15), which is a bit high compared to ice cream you get from Lawson or 7-Eleven, but considering their late-night hours of operation, it seems reasonable.
For our resident chocolate lover, it wasn’t hard to choose which flavor to go with, and Mr. Sato decided to go with the homemade ganache chocolate ice cream (720 yen). But he was a little disappointed when he got it…
Not because of the taste — the chocolate-y flavor was rich, and the ice cream itself was light and delicious.
No, the disappointment came from how it looked. It was very dark and not particularly photogenic. “I should have gone with mango or something more colorful,” Mr. Sato thought to himself.
Mr. Sato felt a further twinge of regret when the staff pointed out a perfect photo spot in the store: an illustration of a girl, reaching out saying “ice cream please!” so that customers could offer her their own ice cream in their snapshot.
Unfortunately, Mr. Sato had already polished off his ice cream, but the staff kindly offered him a stand-in strawberry ice cream for the occasion.
So Mr. Sato’s dream of indulging in trendy late-night ice cream had finally come true. This would definitely not be the last time he came to treat himself, and he’d have to be careful not to make late-night ice cream a nightly occurrence, especially as the summer nights are getting hotter.
Fear not, Mr. Sato! There are other ways to keep cool in the summer that don’t involve eating tasty ice cream — take this portable shower, for instance!
Shop Information
Yolu Ice
Address: Tokyo, Suginami-ku, 4-25-9 Koenji-Minami
東京都杉並区高円寺南4-25-9
Open 5 p.m.-midnight (weedays), 3 pm.-midnight (weekends)
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Aromatherapy…a free eye mask…soothing music…a relaxing drink. This could be the best way to get home!
Let’s face it: life can be exhausting, and based on the number of people who nod off on the train on the way home, we’re not the only ones who need a good rest at the end of the day. Luckily, there’s now a service for that in Japan! Why not end your day with a ride in a “Neochiru Taxi”–the “Nap Taxi”? It’s fully outfitted to make for a comfortable snooze spot, and will even take you home for free!
The Neochiru Taxi is running around Tokyo for a short time, only until September 3, which has been deemed by the Japanese pun gods as “Sleep Day”, seeing as 9 sounds like “Gu” and 3 is pronounced “suri”, creating the words “Good Sleep”.
Produced by the company behind Chill Out, a drink that has four different calming ingredients to aid in relaxation, the special taxi runs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. to help you get ready for bed on your way home after a long day.
All passengers will be provided with an ice-cold can of Chill Out, but inside you’ll also get to enjoy the effects of relaxing aromatherapy, selected and developed by AI technology. A calming movie and gentle music will make you nice and sleepy, while a free disposable eye mask will help soothe your tired eyes.
All that, combined with the lull of the car driving down the street, are sure to put you into a nice sleep. There’s even a charging port for your smartphone, so you don’t have to worry about losing power. Take a stress-free commute home with the Neochiru Taxi, and be ready to tumble into bed after.
You can find the Noechiru Taxi at the taxi stand in front of the Ginza Line at Shibuya Station, and it will take you anywhere within the 23 wards of Tokyo, absolutely for free! If you’re working overtime late into the night, it’s kind of nice to think you could just hop in a car and take a nap, waking up only when you arrive at your front door.
If you’re not in the Shibuya area you can also call the taxi to wherever you are, but that’s only available between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m., and you may not always get one depending on car availability and traffic conditions. Still, it’s a great service that you should absolutely take advantage of while it’s available!
For really stressful days, we also recommend this hand gesture that’s supposed to automatically make you relax. Every little bit helps when you’ve been working long into the night!
Source, images: PR Times
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For those who have never been to Japan, the country seems like a high-tech wonderland. There are constantly reports coming out about new technologies, new robots, and new gadgets; you would think every Japanese person is some sort of tech wunderkind! We hate to shatter your dreams, but Japan is just as full of non-techy people as any other country in the world. No thread shows this better than one that recently popped up on 2channel (2ch). While the rest of the world might be trying to look at leaked photos of celebrities, one 2ch user attempted to turn their normal TV into a 3-D TV by applying…butter. Yeah, we aren’t sure how that’s supposed to work either, nevertheless, we present to you…The Buttering!
It all started with this simple innocuous throwaway headline: “If you rub butter on your TV, it’s said to turn it into a 3-D screen!” You would think that this cannot possibly be true and initially, people dismissed it as a total hoax stating things like:
“This cannot be true.”
“No way, no way.”
Yet even from the beginning, there seemed to be some skeptical but willing experimentalists: “Really? If it’s true, I’ll try it but…”
Other users immediately attempted to egg people on by posting their own recommendations for making the trick work.
“You can’t use margarine.”
“There are some stingy people who are trying it with margarine and the like, it’s not going to work. You have to use butter, although lard would work too.”
“If you don’t torch the coating of butter with flame, it’s not going to work”
“If you put sesame oil on your eyes it will go to 4-D!”
One brave, but clueless user decided to try it out for real.
“This can’t be real, but since my TV looks like it’s gonna break, I’m going to try it.”
After changing his user ID on 2ch, he started the process of turning his normal boring TV into an awesome 3-D TV!
▼”I did it, but nothing really happened”
The internet being the internet and 2ch who is notorious for being a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”, started posting more advice.
“You have to spread it out more!”
“It’s too thick! Spread a thinner layer. You can’t even see the screen like that.”
“Maybe spread it out a little more thoroughly”
Understanding his folly, he posted another picture,
▼”I spread it evenly so I could get 3-D, but there is still no change! Is this the right way to do this?”
The trolls were quick to respond.
“Probably only using one layer is not effective. After it dries a bit, put another layer on. I did six layers.”
“Did you use salt-free butter?”
“At my house we used cultured butter and put four layers on.”
With his choice of butter in question, he replied with a picture of the butter used.
▼“So, I used the butter shown in the picture below. Even though I did as people said and put 4-6 layers on, it still doesn’t work, so is it really possible?”
2ch users seemed satisfied with the choices of butter, so they moved on to critique his butter application technique.
“Then it’s your technique, two layers should be enough for it to work.”
“If you don’t spread it on vertically, it doesn’t work.”
“I hear if you wrap your TV in cling wrap it will work better.”
This person really wanted their TV to become 3-D, so no idea would go untried!
▼”I smeared it vertically! My hands really smell like butter!”
▼”Even though I wrapped my TV in cling wrap and smeared butter, it’s impossible!”
This is when a new suggestion from the peanut gallery took this surreal event to a whole new level!
“Have you not covered the frame of the TV with butter? The frame is connected to the screen, obviously.”
The result was fantastic!
▼”I smeared the TV frame with butter, but still no 3-D. Do I have to do something to the butter?”
The conversation switched back to the TV at this point, 2ch users were convinced it should be working, maybe it was the wrong kind of TV?
“Is that an Aquos? A Regza would work better.”
“If it’s not a CRT TV, I heard it’s impossible”
Unfortunately, at 3 AM in the morning, you can’t really go out and buy another TV to try this trick with.
“I can’t do anything about the TV, so please help me with the butter part.”
Always resourceful, users tried to figure out other reasons why it wasn’t working.
“Do you have glasses? If you don’t put butter on your glasses it doesn’t work.”
“There are 3-D glasses you know. Try doing the same thing but one part butter and one part margarine.”
At this point, it was clear that the thread had just turned into a running joke and the 3-D TV hopeful would do anything people asked.
“Even though I put butter on the glasses, the only thing that happened was my parent’s glasses became sticky.”
Because of course if the family TV is safe to coat with butter, than obviously the parent’s glasses are OK as well. What else you got? More butter? Maybe some oil or something equally as greasy?
▼”Even though I added strawberries, honey and the whites of eggs, the screen only got dirty.”
That’s just wrong. What’s worse is one user wanted to know just how far he would go.
“You should taste it.”
The reply, “I did and it was gross and sticky.”
At 4:00 AM, after two hours of tried and failed butter experimentation, it was time to wrap things up.
“I’m pretty tired so I’m going to quit. Now, please tell me how to clean up this butter.” (Note: No one did.)
“Well, I have finished wiping my entire screen. There’s school tomorrow so I’m going to go to bed.”
And so ended the great 3-D butter-thon. What did we learn? Don’t try everything you see on the internet at home. Or do try it, just make sure you document it with pictures and share it with the rest of the world!
Source: Kinisoku
Images: 2ch, Flickr (Casey Bisson), Flickr (Keith Survell)
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