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If you bought something in the Nintendo Museum, they might owe you some money for overcharging

Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2025
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Customers buying certain items have apparently been being overcharged ever since the museum opened, partial refunds now being offered.

Japan
(museums • nintendo • Nintendo Museum • refund • tourism • travel • video games)

New Era combines with old eras for amazing hat collection based on Japanese painting masterpieces

Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2025

Legendary ukiyo-e and mythological icons part of the collaboration between New Era and the Tokyo National Museum.

Japan
(art • baseball caps • baseball hats • caps • culture • fashion • hats • history • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • museums • new era • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • Tokyo National Museum • ukiyo-e)

Stunning ukiyo-e art experience floats over to Tokyo for its latest exhibition

Elliot Hale
Dec 13, 2024

These reimagined woodblock prints beautifully blend traditional culture and modern technology.

Japan
(3-D art • art • awesome • beautiful • COK • cool • Hitohata • hokusai • Immersive Museum • Katsushika Hokusai • museums • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Ghibli Museum coffee now available to purchase online

Oona McGee
Dec 11, 2024

Exclusive Studio Ghibli blend, crafted with the help of a Kyoto coffee specialist.

Japan
(anime • cafe • coffee • Ghibli Museum • museums • shop • Straw Hat Cafe • Studio Ghibli)

Japanese government wants to acquire original anime and manga art for creation of national archive

Casey Baseel
Oct 4, 2024

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology discusses project with Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno.

Japan
(anime • archive • art • culture • manga • museums • society)

Eat Japanese prison food at this unique cafeteria in Abashiri

Oona McGee
Sep 29, 2024

A taste of incarceration that’ll leave you with a new appreciation for the everyday.

Japan
(Abashiri • Abashiri Prison • anime • film • food • Golden Kamuy • historical • Hokkaido • jail • Japanese food • katsudon • manga • museums • prison • prison food • prisons • restaurants • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

Nintendo Museum’s official merch includes awesome giant controller cushions【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2024

Museum has giant controllers to play games with, and giant controllers to relax with.

Japan
(cool • famicom • museums • NES • nintendo • Nintendo Museum • Super NES • video • video games)

Pikachu/Game Boy manhole cover installed at Nintendo Museum, not viewable by general public

Casey Baseel
Sep 13, 2024

The newest Pokémon manhole cover is also the first to feature the classic Nintendo hardware, but not everyone will get to see it.

Japan
(anime • cool • cute • Game Boy • Kyoto • manga • manhole covers • museums • nintendo • Nintendo Museum • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Pokémon manhole covers • video games)

First-look video of new Nintendo Museum shows off giant controllers fans can actually play games with!

Casey Baseel
Aug 20, 2024

Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto gives up a sneak peek at the Kyoto video game museum that’s set to open before the end of the year.

Japan
(awesome • cool • crazy • Kyoto • museums • nintendo • Nintendo Museum • Shigeru Miyamoto • video games)

Amazing ukiyo-e art exhibit gives you the chance to step inside a woodblock print and snap photos

Casey Baseel
Aug 15, 2024

Traditional and digital artwork combines for unforgettable images.

Japan
(art • art museums • awesome • beautiful • COK • cool • Hitohata • hokusai • museums • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Ghibli Museum’s Summer Stand lets you get a taste of Ghibli fun even if you don’t have a ticket

Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2024

Advance tickets are absolutely required and tough to get for Tokyo’s Ghibli Museum, but on certain summer days there’s a special event for the ticketless too.

Japan
(anime • Ghibli Museum • museums • Studio Ghibli • tourism • travel)

Pikachu appears as a noh actor in kimono at Pokémon x Crafts Exhibition in Japan

Oona McGee
Aug 7, 2024

A rare chance to see Pokémon like you’ve never seen them before.

Japan
(anime • art • cool • culture • exhibition • Japanese traditional crafts • kimono • museums • Pikachu • Pokemon • tradition • traditional crafts)

Summer nights at this amazing Tokyo open-air museum are like stepping back in time

Casey Baseel
Jul 31, 2024

Downtown Summer Evening returns to Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum.

Japan
(architecture • COK • cool • culture • Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum • history • museums)

Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle tapestry unveiled in Japan for first time

Oona McGee
Jul 4, 2024

The imagination of Hayao Miyazaki, captured in tapestry, can now be viewed by the public for a limited time.

Japan
(anime • art • Aubusson • Cité internationale de la tapisserie • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • france • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Hiroshima • Howl's Moving Castle • Intangible Cultural Heritage • International Tapestry Museum • museums • Studio Ghibli • tapestries • tapestry • UNESCO • weaving)

10 great quirky museums to beat the Japan rainy season blues

SoraNews24
Jun 24, 2024

From toilets to crabs to anime figures, these indoor activities will keep you entertained when the rain and humidity are too much to take.

Japan
(COK • cool • funny • Iwashita New Ginger • Mister Donut • museums • rain • rainy season • sake • Toilets • Toto • tourism • travel • weird)

Permanent video game art museum now being built in Japan

Casey Baseel
Jun 20, 2024

Real estate developer with ties to famous game developer spearheading project south of Tokyo.

Japan
(art • art museum • Koei Tecmo • museums • video games • Yokohama)

We check out Otaru’s real-life locales that inspired scenes in hit anime Golden Kamuy

Krista Rogers
May 18, 2024

Our reporter takes a northern pilgrimage to an important port city in Hokkaido in search of runaway trains, skewered sweet dumplings, and more.

Japan
(anime • film • Golden Kamuy • historical • Hokkaido • Live action • manga • museums • Otaru • Otaru Canal • Satoru Noda • Saya Togashi • travel • warehouses)

Fight like a ninja in a samurai town, with sword-fighting experience at Kyoto Toei movie studio park

Oona McGee
Apr 8, 2024

Learn Japanese katana techniques from movie actors and film your own sword-fight in an Edo setting.

Japan
(awesome • cool • Edo • history • Japanese swords • Katana • Kyoto • museums • Ninja • samurai • sword fights • Toei Kyoto Studio Park • tourist sites • travel)

Spirited Away’s No-Face, Yubaba appear in seaside park in Japan as Ghibli museum exhibit opens 【Vid】

Casey Baseel
Mar 20, 2024

Special traveling Ghibli exhibit makes its first stop in Kanagawa.

Japan
(anime • Hayao Miyazaki • museums • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki • Toshio Suzuki and Ghibli Exhibition)

Dojigiri, the millennium-old katana said to have slain a demon, is now on display in Tokyo【Pics】

Casey Baseel
Mar 14, 2024

One of the Five Swords Under Heaven is now under the roof of this downtown museum.

Japan
(COK • history • Katana • museums • SNJO • swords • Tokyo National Museum)

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