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This unstaffed Japanese train station is like a Ghibli anime come to life
- Oona McGee
Jun 5, 2022 - Tweet
Little-known gem has one of the most beautiful views in Japan.
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- (Arimagawa Station • beauty • COK • countryside • Ghibli • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • nature • Niigata • off the beaten path • off the beaten track • seaside • SNJO • train stations • trains • travel)
Is fancy drinkable yogurt better than regular yogurt for marinating chicken? 【Taste Test】
- Dale Roll
May 14, 2022
We use a super thick and delicious product from Niigata to see if it will make our chicken super juicy!
- Japan
- (chicken • cooking • food hack • marinade • Niigata • SoraKitchen • taste test • Yasuda Yogurt • yogurt • yogurt drink)
Japanese school entrance ceremony held in the metaverse for over 3,000 new students
- Master Blaster
Apr 14, 2022
Metaversity?
- Internet, Japan
- (entrance ceremony • metaverse • Niigata • Panther • Satoshi Mukai • school • vocational schools)
Is anime making otaku eat less rice? Government launches Girl Running Late with Rice Ball Project
- Casey Baseel
Jan 26, 2022
Japan’s top rice-growing prefecture designs character, releases two videos in hope of changing anime breakfast trope.
- Japan
- (anime • bread • food • manga • musubi • Niigata • onigiri • rice • rice balls • society • toast)
Boys’ love at the temple? Sensual ikemen art that raised eyebrows in Japan now set to be removed
- Oona McGee
Nov 21, 2021
Modern makeover at centuries-old temple comes to an end, but not for rumoured reasons.
- Japan
- (art • artwork • BL • boys love • Buddha • Buddhism • COK • controversy • cool • crazy • culture • history • manga • murals • Niigata • paintings • religion • SNJO • temples • weird)
A visit to Japan’s mysterious Nose Hair Pond
- Oona McGee
Nov 11, 2021
No body shaming at this site of natural beauty.
Japanese town will give you two million yen for having your third kid there in birth-boosting plan
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2021
And if you have another kid after that? Another two million yen.
- Japan
- (babies • birth rate • COK • family • Niigata • parents • sado • shrinking population • society)
We dig into Japanese ice cream flavored with iron metal and are wowed by the result【Taste Test】
- Ingrid Tsai
Apr 28, 2021
Unfortunately, this ice cream isn’t a replacement for your daily iron supplements, but it sure tastes good!
- Japan
- (desserts • food • ice cream • metalworking • Niigata • sweets • taste test • Tsubame • Tsubamesanjo)
Pathetically weak Magikarp shown love with Pokémon manhole covers in birthplace of koi culture
- Casey Baseel
Nov 29, 2020
Central Japan gets its very first Pokéfuta.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • cute • Koiking • Magikarp • manhole covers • Niigata • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • travel • video games)
Japan’s one-person sandwich press, a “God item” for solo diners, sells out online
- Oona McGee
Sep 15, 2020
Perfectly grilled cheese sandwiches and dessert toasties are a cinch with this Japanese cooking gadget.
- Japan
- (camping • cooking • cool • food • grilled cheese • interior • kitchen gadgets • kitchen goods • Niigata • one person • sandwich maker • sandwich press • sandwiches • SNJO • toastie)
Japanese city sends heartwarming care package to out-of-town students during coronavirus crisis
- Oona McGee
Apr 23, 2020
Young people well up with hometown pride and tears as mayor thanks them for staying away to protect their families.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • furusato • heartwarming • letter • Niigata • politics • touching • Tsubame • twitter • viral)
Our reporter tries amemonaka, the traditional sweet from Niigata Prefecture
- Krista Rogers
Mar 4, 2020
This traditional confection is pretty to look at, but how’s the taste?
- Japan
- (amemonaka • Chomeido Ameho • confectionery • mizu-ame • monaka • Niigata • sweets • taste test • traditional)
Niigata student tricks woman out of 100,000 yen and two pairs of dirty underwear
- Master Blaster
Nov 4, 2019
Ah, the old dirty-underwear-wrap con. She should have seen it coming.
- Japan
- (con artists • crime • Minami Alps • Nagaoka • Niigata • scam • twitter • underwear • Yamanashi)
Niigata brings back mysterious cat mask festival for the first time in almost 90 years
- Oona McGee
Oct 9, 2019
Geisha once cosplayed as white cats to revive a devastated Japanese town.
- Japan
- (animals • cats • culture • festivals • history • Japanese culture • Japanese festival • Niigata • tradition)
Beautiful art museum Shinkansen finally coming to Tokyo for a limited time this fall【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 5, 2019
Whether you think of the Genbi as the world’s most beautiful built train or its fastest art gallery, it’s a rail experience like no other.
- Japan
- (art • art galleries • art museums • bullet trains • Niigata • shinkansen • Tokyo • trains • travel)
Amazingly beautiful sake cups look like a starry night sky when liquid is poured into them
- Dale Roll
Jul 27, 2019
They’re perfect for an evening drink on the porch!
- Japan
- (beautiful • handcraft • Japanese traditional crafts • lacquerware • Niigata • sake • sake cup • space • stainless steel)
Man Arrested For Modifying, Reselling Pokémon Games
- Anime News Network
Jul 8, 2019
Man is the first person to be arrested on this charge after laws against modding were revised in November
Discovery of unregistered radioactive substance in Japanese university shocks students
- Koh Ruide
Jun 10, 2019
A thorough campus sweep for more traces of the dangerous chemical is underway.
- Japan
- (chemicals • dangerous • Niigata • radioactive • university • warning)
Rabbit at Japanese temple freaks people out with glowing eyes, Buddhist deity inside its chest
- Oona McGee
Nov 22, 2018
Dozens of free-roaming bunnies at this temple now have a new overlord looking out for them.
Alpaca fight breaks out in Niigata【Video】
- Master Blaster
Nov 6, 2018
No serious injuries were reported, but alpaca productivity ground to a halt for the day.
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