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Lucky Bags (Page 4)

How do you beat Bic Camera’s Lucky Box lines, and what’s inside their Sim-Free Phone box?

• Dale Roll
  Jan 3, 2024
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Our reporter gets the inside scoop!

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• Japan
• (Bic Camera • electronics • fukubukuro • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • shopping • smart phone)

2024’s Pokémon Center Lucky Bag may have been the hardest to get, but also the most worthwhile

• Dale Roll
  Jan 3, 2024

The value for money was incredible! 

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• Japan
• (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Pokemon • Pokemon Center)

Starbucks Japan’s New Year’s lucky bag: One of the rarest fukubukuro of 2024

• Oona McGee
  Jan 3, 2024

Only available to lottery winners, this “phantom” box is filled with special goods. 

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• Japan
• (COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • lucky bag • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2024 • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

The Pokémon Mister Donut lucky bag is even better than we’d hoped!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2023

One of Japan’s most-anticipated lucky bags managed to exceed out expectations with a pair of awesome surprises!

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cute • donuts • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Mister Donut • Pikachu • Pokemon • SNJO • sweets • video games)

Opening the sweet value of Lindt Japan’s Holiday Lucky Bag【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 21, 2023

Why wait for New Year’s to start the lucky bag/sweet snack fun?

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• (chocolate • COK • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2024 • SNJO • sweets)

This year’s Yoshinoya lucky box was surprising in some ways, but familiar in others

• Dale Roll
  Dec 17, 2023

Regardless, we were definitely happy with it!

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• Japan
• (beef bowl • beef bowls • COK • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • fukuburo • gyudon • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Yoshinoya)

Mr. Sato tries his luck with a lucky bag of mystery underwear

• Master Blaster
  Dec 14, 2023

Mama always said life is like a lucky bag of outlet underwear.

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• Japan
• (COK • fashion • Fist of North Star • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Mr. Sato • rakuten • Shalemon • shopping • SNJO • South Africa • underwear)

Matsuya beef bowl fukubukuro lucky bag should be purchased with caution

• Oona McGee
  Dec 13, 2023

There’s one downfall to this massive gyudon haul.  

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • COK • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • gyudon • Japanese food • lucky bag • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2024 • Matsuya • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO)

Japanese tough guy fashion starter pack: Testing the Birth Japan lucky bag【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 13, 2023

Oraora-kei orientation.

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• Japan
• (Birth Japan • COK • crazy • fashion • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO)

Didn’t win this year’s Starbucks Lucky Bag lotto? Don’t worry, there’s something even better!

• Dale Roll
  Dec 10, 2023

So what if you’re not lucky this year? You don’t need luck to buy 12 cups of coffee for US$21!

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• Japan
• (coffee • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Starbucks • Yuichiro Wasai)

Checking Amazon Japan’s Bath Salts Fukubukuro Lucky Bag for 2024

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2023

How many Japanese bath salts can we get for US$25?

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• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • bath powder • bath salts • bath time • bathing • bathing customs • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • K. Masami • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • online shopping • SNJO)

Ichiran ramen fukubukuro lucky bag comes with big and small surprises

• Oona McGee
  Dec 5, 2023

Japan’s premier tonkotsu ramen chain gives us some wonderful goodies to celebrate the New Year. 

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• Japan
• (COK • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Ichiran • Japanese food • lucky bag • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2024 • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurants • restaurants • review • SNJO • tonkotsu • tonkotsu ramen)

Pokémon merch Mister Donut Lucky Bag, Japan’s sweetest can’t-miss fukubukuro deal, is coming back

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 29, 2023

Once again, Mister Donut offers an incredible deal that basically pays you to eat donuts.

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• Japan
• (cool • cute • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2024 • Mister Donut • Pikachu • Pokemon • sweets)

We deliver 441 pounds of lucky bag prizes, and a cuddly friend, to one very lucky reader【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 15, 2023

“Earnestly carry out your dumb ideas,” our boss always says.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • fukubukuro • funny • Lucky Bags • Mr. Sato • panda • SNJO • weird • Yoshio)

Pokémon cakes appear at Ginza Cozy Corner for a very limited time

• Oona McGee
  Apr 16, 2023

First-ever collaboration comes with a special field guide for customers. 

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• Japan
• (COK • Disney • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Ginza Cozy Corner • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Ichiran ramen lucky bag gives us everything we need to enjoy tonkotsu noodles at home

• Oona McGee
  Jan 28, 2023

This Japanese ramen chain really knows how to please its customers.

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• Japan
• (cup noodles • delicious • food • food review • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Ichiran • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese food • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • new • Noodles • ramen • review • SNJO • taste test)

The Spy x Family lucky bag is a double-layer of mystery for fans of the hit anime series【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 10, 2023

The Spy x Family lucky bag takes its time revealing its secrets, but that’s part of what makes it so fun.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • manga • SNJO • Spy x Family)

What’s in the Lindt lucky bag for 2023?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 9, 2023

There’s more to this fukubukuro than just Lindor balls.

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• Japan
• (chocolates • COK • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • lindor • Lindt • Lindt balls • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Plant fukubukuro turns our apartment into an indoor garden for New Year

• Oona McGee
  Jan 7, 2023

An unusual Japanese lucky bag that’s bloomin’ marvellous.

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• Japan
• (flowers • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • gardening • lucky bag • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • plants • shopping)

Ginza Cozy Corner’s Disney lucky bag fukubukuro leaves us with a bad taste in the mouth

• Oona McGee
  Jan 6, 2023

Not exactly the happiest bag on Earth. 

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• (COK • Disney • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Ginza Cozy Corner • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

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