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Does the Fukuryumon Chinese restaurant in Koenji offer the best lunch deal in Tokyo?

Krista Rogers
May 7, 2026
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The main dishes are already cheap to begin with–but the unlimited free side dishes could even be a meal by themselves!

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • Chinese • COK • Fukuryumon • Koenji • Mr. Sato • Restaurant • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Tokyo)

Visiting Tokyo’s newest unmanned Self Cafe in Shibuya

Elliot Hale
Apr 23, 2026

Skip the guilt of camping at a coffee shop and work for hours at this staffless oasis.

Japan
(cafe • COK • ice cream • Lady Borden • Mr. Sato • Self Cafe • Shibuya • SNJO • Tokyo • unmanned • unmanned cafe • unmanned shop • Wood Design Park)

Fading Tokyo – Horikiri Station, the Arakawa River, and Kinpachi-sensei[Walking course]

Casey Baseel
Apr 13, 2026

Mr. Sato heads to the neighborhood of a famous TV drama and finds a nostalgic taste of a youth he never had.

Japan
(Adachi • Arakawa • COK • cool • Fading Tokyo • food • Horikiri • Horikiri Station • Kinpachi-sensei • Mr. Sato • restaurants • retro • Showa Era • SNJO • Tokyo • urban exploration • urban exploring • walking • walking course • walking tour)

Mr. Sato discovers his inner beaver with a 16-inch chocolate “twig” at Tokyo Station

Elliot Hale
Apr 12, 2026

Why settle for a tiny snack when you can gnaw on one that doubles as a legendary sword?

Japan
(big food • churros • COK • crazy • First Avenue • First Avenue Tokyo Station • food • Koeda • Morinaga • Morinaga no Okashina Okashiyasan • Mr. Sato • snacks • SNJO • Super Long • Tokyo • Tokyo Station)

Fading Tokyo – Searching for signs of the Showa era as local neighborhoods evolve[Photos]

Casey Baseel
Apr 2, 2026

Mr. Sato starts his urban exploration of Tokyo to catch a glimpse of local neighborhoods’ pasts before they’re changed forever.

Japan
(Araiyakushi-mae • cafes • COK • cool • Fading Tokyo • food • Mr. Sato • Nakano • Numabukuro • restaurants • retro • Seibu Shinkuku Line • Showa Era • shrines • SNJO • temples • Tokyo • urban exploration • urban exploring • walking • walking course • walking tour)

Testing Japan’s fluffy mayonnaise pancake cooking hack【SoraKitchen】

SoraNews24
Feb 12, 2026

Mr. Sato heads to the SoraKitchen with a bowl of pancake batter, a tube of mayo, and a desire to know if, and how, this cooking hack works.

Japan
(COK • cooking • cooking hacks • crazy • food • hotcakes • mayo • mayonnaise • Mr. Sato • pancakes • SNJO • SoraKitchen • weird)

A look back on 40 years of Japanese schools banning stuff

Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2026

Mr. Sato leads an office roundtable discussion on weird things Japanese schools have said “Nope, you can’t do that” about.

Japan
(COK • Mr. Sato • school rules • schools • SNJO • society • stickers • youth)

Lawson convenience stores selling drinkable mapo tofu, spicy meat and tofu

Master Blaster
Jan 25, 2026

But just because you say something is “drinkable…”

Japan
(chinese food • COK • convenience stores • crazy • Drinkable Mapo Tofu • drinks • food • Lawson • mapo tofu • Mr. Sato • SNJO • spicy • spicy food • taste test • tofu • weird)

Our 52-year-old pole dancing reporter shares his tips for achieving your New Year’s exercise goal

Elliot Hale
Jan 9, 2026

Starting in his 40s and still going strong, Mr. Sato offers realistic tips for anyone trying to shift some extra weight this year.

Japan
(COK • diet • exercise • fitness • health • moving • Mr. Sato • New Year's Resolution • pole dance • pole dancing • SNJO • touching • weight loss)

Mr. Sato accosts award-winning actor Hideaki Ito【Interview】

Master Blaster
Dec 27, 2025

Sato vs Ito: Requiem.

Japan
(actors • celebrities • COK • crazy • DMM TV • Donketsu • funny • Hideaki Ito • interviews • movies • Mr. Ito • Mr. Sato • SNJO • Tokyo Comic-Con • weird)

Disillusionment at Tsukiji’s tourist-target prices led us to a great ramen restaurant in Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Dec 24, 2025

Mr. Sato bypasses the high-priced sushi that’s become the neighborhood’s new normal and finds a super-cheap, super-tasty bowl of ramen.

Japan
(China travel advisory • COK • Japan travel • Mr. Sato • Noodles • overtourism • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • sushi • tourism • travel • Tsukiji • Tsukiji fish market)

Viral 3D ice creams land in Japan… but are they worth the hype?

Oona McGee
Dec 7, 2025

Trendy desserts arrive at supermarkets and convenience stores, so we find out if they’re worth your yen.

Japan
(3D ice cream • 3D ice creams • 7-Eleven • convenience stores • fruit • ice cream • ice creams • Japanese convenience stores • Mr. Sato • SNJO • social media • sweets • viral)

We zapped up some tasty hot sandwiches in the microwave with 3COINS’ new gadget from Japan

Elliot Hale
Nov 15, 2025

This is some hot sand that you’ll love to put in your mouth.

Japan
(3COINS • COK • cooking • cooking gadgets • food • gadgets • hot sandwich maker • kitchen gadgets • microwave • microwave cooking • Mr. Sato • sandwich maker • sandwiches • SNJO)

Mr. Sato taste tests not only the original takoyaki, but its predecessor, radioyaki, in Osaka

Krista Rogers
Oct 15, 2025

Our ace reporter learns that the fried balls of octopus in Kansai are not quite what he expected.

Japan
(Aizuya • akashiyaki • COK • food • Kansai • Mr. Sato • Osaka • radioyaki • SNJO • takoyaki)

We recreate the legendary Fist of the North Star Hundred Rending Fists attack in analog style

Krista Rogers
Oct 10, 2025

We ditched AI for some good old-fashioned creative thinking…which required a few extra appendages.

Japan
(anime • attack • COK • Fist of the North Star • funny • Kenshiro • manga • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • punches • SNJO • Sunashiro)

Tokyo Game Show — Cosplay dreams broken, Mr. Sato heads to the Like a Dragon/Yakuza booth anyway

Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2025

Awesome recreation of the Kamurocho Gate eases his Majima pain.

Japan
(COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Sega • SNJO • Tokyo Game Show • Tokyo Game Show 2025 • video games • yakuza)

How far away from Tokyo can you get with 5,000 yen? Let’s find out!

Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2025

Our reporters set out to escape Tokyo with a modest budget, a direction to go in, and no other plan.

Japan
(Atami • buses • COK • crazy • Fukushima • Go Hatori • Mr. Sato • Shizuoka • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • trains • travel)

Married couples in Japan must have the same surname, so does Mr. Sato regret taking his wife’s?

Casey Baseel
Sep 20, 2025

10 years after legally giving up his Sato-hood, would he make the same choice again?

Japan
(COK • culture • family names • last names • marriage • Mr. Sato • relationships • romance • SNJIO • society • surnames)

This overlooked neighborhood east of Tokyo is awesome in many ways, left us with just one regret

Casey Baseel
Sep 10, 2025

And that regret is entirely on us, not on Shimosa Nakayama Station.

Japan
(COK • culture • food • history • Mr. Sato • Shimosa Nakayama • SNJO • temples • tourism • travel)

What happened when pose maestro Julio Janpierre met Mr Sato in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Sep 5, 2025

Tokyo has never seen this much blue steel since Hansel and Derek Zoolander.

Japan
(COK • cool • fashion • Instagram • Julio Janpierre • Kabukicho • Mr. Sato • photography • poses • shinjuku • SNJO • social media star • TikTok • TikToker • Tokyo)

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