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Japan’s cafe that won’t let you go home until you solve a puzzle is opening in Osaka’s canal district
- Casey Baseel
May 30, 2026 - Tweet
Hatena Coffee continues to make customers smile as they scratch their heads.
- Japan
- (cafes • coffee • cool • crazy • Dotonbori • drinks • food • Hatena Coffee • Namba • Osaka • puzzles • restaurants)
Sushi Pizza surprises diners in one of the best food destinations in Japan
- Oona McGee
May 28, 2026
New fusion food looks set to become a hit on social media.
- Japan
- (food • izakaya • new releae • Osaka • pizza • restaurants • seafood • sushi • sushi pizza)
Huge display of drones and fireworks together coming to Osaka this June
- Master Blaster
May 13, 2026
You got your drones in my fireworks! You got your fireworks in my drones!
- Japan
- (drones • events • Fire Brand • fireworks • Inakako Fireworks • Kato Fireworks • Katsuragi Fireworks • Maishima Sports Island • Osaka • Osaka Bay Skylumina • Red Cliff • shows)
Deer that appeared in downtown Osaka gets a new home, a new name, and a lot of snacks[Video]
- Casey Baseel
Apr 8, 2026
Likely wanderer from Nara Park won’t be going back, but has a new place to live in a hot spring town.
- Japan
- (animals • crazy • cute • deer • environment • moving • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • nature • Osaka • Shika-yan • touching • video • weird)
Deer are appearing in Osaka City, may have wandered there from Nara[Video]
- Casey Baseel
Mar 26, 2026
No one’s sure what to do with them, since Nara’s deer lose their protected status when they leave the park.
- Japan
- (animals • crazy • deer • environment • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • nature • Osaka • video • weird)
Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads
- Casey Baseel
Mar 25, 2026
Video advertising seems contradictory to the digital signage’s originally intended purpose.
- Japan
- (clever • COK • crazy • Osaka • Public restrooms • public toilets • restrooms • techonolgy • Toilets • Umeda • Umeda Station • weird)
Giant pipe mysteriously rises up through street in downtown Osaka
- Casey Baseel
Mar 13, 2026
That’s not supposed to be there…
Viral Japanese cheesecake from Osaka has a lesser known rival called Aunt Wanda
- Oona McGee
Mar 2, 2026
Move aside, Uncle Rikuro – Aunt Wanda is here to steal your fluffy souffle crown, without the raisins.
- Japan
- (Aunt Wanda • cakes • Cheesecake • cheesecakes • COK • dessert • Japanese cheesecake • Japanese sweets • Kansai • Okinawa • Osaka • SNJO • sweet • sweets • Uncle Rikuro • Viral Japanese cheesecake)
Osaka establishes first designated smoking area in Dotonbori canal district to fight “overtourism”
- Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2026
Street food hot spot wants to be cleaner, but it might just be pushing the smoke down the street.
- Japan
- (Dotonbori • Japan travel • Osaka • overtourism • smoking • tourism • travel)
Fives places around Japan to appreciate the plum blossoms this season
- Krista Rogers
Feb 16, 2026
Spring hasn’t quite sprung yet but we can still soak up its essence in the humble yet mighty plum blossoms.
- Japan
- (beautiful • flowers • gardens • Ibaraki • Kanagawa • Kyoto • Osaka • outdoors • plum • plum blossoms • spring • travel • ume)
Japan is in the grip of sticker fever and no one is safe, including us
- Master Blaster
Jan 27, 2026
If loving stickers is wrong, then Japan doesn’t want to be right.
- Japan
- (Bon Bon Drop • COK • cute • Osaka • Shizuku-chan • shopping • SNJO • sticker collecting • Sticker Festival • stickers • Tamagotchi)
Immersive ukiyoe exhibition in Osaka adds some scented flair
- Elliot Hale
Jan 16, 2026
Classic woodblock prints are animated and paired with perfume for a multi-sensory art experience.
- Japan
- (3-D art • art • awesome • beautiful • COK • cool • Hatenko • Hitohata • Immersive Museum • museums • Osaka • ukiyo-e • Ukiyoe Immersive Art • woodblock prints)
Giant hotel rooms in Osaka reflect the new non-niche face of travel in Japan.
- Casey Baseel
Jan 11, 2026
Japanese home-away-from-home hotel rooms reflect the new face of Japan travel.
- Japan
- (group travel • hotels • Japan travel • Osaka • tourism • travel)
Why you shouldn’t call this food “Hiroshimayaki” if you’re talking to people from Hiroshima
- Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2025
There are two main types of okonomiyaki, but people in Hiroshima don’t like one of the names the rest of the country has for theirs.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • food • Hiroshima • Japanese language • Kansai • linguistics • okonomiyaki • Osaka • SNJO)
Large amount of supposed human organs left in Osaka marketplace
- Master Blaster
Dec 22, 2025
One person’s trash is another’s nightmare.
- Japan
- (crazy • crime • gross • hormone • illegal dumping • medical waste • Osaka • Osaka Municipal Wholesale Market • scary)
Is this the most relaxing Starbucks in Japan?
- Oona McGee
Dec 20, 2025
Forest bathing adds unique Japanese charm to this special location in Osaka.
- Japan
- (cafes • coffee • drinks • forest bathing • Osaka • shinrinyoku • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
Japan’s first hotel with a human washing machine is now ready for you to come and bathe in it
- Casey Baseel
Dec 10, 2025
It’s the Future Human Washing Machine…today!
- Japan
- (bathing • baths • cool • crazy • Expo 2025 • Future Human Washing Machine • hotels • Human Washer in the Future • human washing machine • Japan travel • Osaka • technology • tourism • travel)
Osaka teen arrested for hacking into Internet cafe’s app to steal data, was helped by Chat-GPT
- Master Blaster
Dec 9, 2025
That AI better have a good alibi.
- Japan
- (AI • Chat-GPT • COK • crime • cybercrime • hacking • Internet cafes • Kaikatsu Club • Osaka)
China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning seems to be affecting Osaka’s Namba and Dotonbori neighborhoods
- Casey Baseel
Dec 6, 2025
We head to Osaka’s world-famous canal district and see who’s thriving and who’s struggling with the drop in travelers from China.
- Japan
- (China travel warning • COK • Dotonbori • Japan travel • Namba • Osaka • politics • SNJO • society • tourism • tourists • travel)
This Osaka laundromat wants to clean more than your clothes; it also wants to clean you
- Elliot Hale
Dec 6, 2025
Finally a store that understands that sometimes it’s you who needs refreshing, not just your clothes.
- Japan
- (Anji Tabata • art gallery • coin laundry • COK • dry-cleaning • laundromat • Neverending • Osaka • sauna • tea • Toraya Cleaning)
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