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Is this the most relaxing Starbucks in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2025
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Forest bathing adds unique Japanese charm to this special location in Osaka.

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• 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!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Japan
• (Anji Tabata • art gallery • coin laundry • COK • dry-cleaning • laundromat • Neverending • Osaka • sauna • tea • Toraya Cleaning)

The deluxe disappointment and basic brilliance of Japan’s oldest standing soba noodle chain

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 6, 2025

Miyako Soba may not be what we’d expected for the oldest standing soba chain in country, but maybe it should have been.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japan’s oldest • Noodles • oldest in Japan • Osaka • restaurants • SNJO • soba)

How to travel from Tokyo to Kyoto on the overnight bus and not lose your sanity

• Oona McGee
  Nov 3, 2025

Sleep capsule pods on the night bus are an overlooked option for travelling in Japan. 

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• Japan
• (bus tour • bus travel • busses • COK • Japanese bus • Kyoto • night bus • Osaka • overnight bus • overnight buses • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel • Willer • Willer Express • Willer Travel)

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.

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

Green is the new color this autumn at Osaka hotel’s latest sweet buffet

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 13, 2025

Celebrate the fall season with chestnuts, grapes, and decadent matcha treats.

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• Japan
• (buffet • buffets • chestnuts • COK • food and drinks • grapes • Hotel New Otani • hotel restaurants • matcha • matcha sweets • Nagano Purple • Osaka • Restaurant • Shine Muscat • sweets buffet • Uji Matcha • Yamamasa Koyamaen)

Osaka Expo expected to turn an operating profit of over 23 billion yen

• Master Blaster
  Oct 9, 2025

But is that still enough to call it a success?

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • business • costs • expo • Myaku-Myaku • Osaka • profit)

USJ’s 2025 Halloween event will spook you by day and night with zombies galore and more

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 8, 2025

We’ve compiled our favorite parts of this year’s event, including the largest-ever collection of special food, goods, and a new HamiKuma variant.

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• Japan
• (COK • entertainment • food • fun • halloween • HamiKuma • King Gnu • music • Osaka • party • Pokemon • scary • SNJO • spooky • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • USJ Halloween • zombie)

Osaka suspending new Airbnb-style special zone private lodging applications following backlash

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 2, 2025

Residents don’t think special zone minpaku are very special at all.

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• (COK • minpaku • Osaka • private lodging • society • tokku minpaku • tourism • travel)

Osaka police to start patrolling on motorized kick scooters

• Master Blaster
  Sep 24, 2025

At least it’s a little cooler than recumbent bikes.

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• Japan
• (kick scooters • Osaka • Osaka Prefectural Police • police • safety • traffic laws)

Osaka city employee suspended and demoted for verbally abusing boss

• Master Blaster
  Sep 13, 2025

Great, just give him more bosses to abuse…

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• Japan
• (city employees • culture • Osaka • Osaka dialect • power harassment • Toyonaka • verbal abuse)

Bruno Mars to hold fireworks shows in Saitama and Osaka this November

• Master Blaster
  Sep 9, 2025

Fireworks that are too good to say goodbye to.

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• Japan
• (Bruno Mars • entertainment • events • fireworks • music • Osaka • Saitama • Saitama Stadium 2002 • Sennan Long Park • The Bruno Mars Fireworks Show)

Osaka police to trial bodycams, sometimes on the side of their heads

• Master Blaster
  Sep 1, 2025

To serve and protect and vlog.

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• Japan
• (body cameras • bodycams • law enforcement • National Police Agency • Osaka • police • technology)

Discovering Paapo, the secret flavor behind the happosai enjoyed by Osakan families

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 31, 2025

It tastes just like what mom used to make.

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• Japan
• (chinese food • COK • cooking • food and drinks • happosai • Osaka • Paapo • seasonings • SNJO • Takuya Inaba)

Life imitates Osaka’s unique brand of comedic art in daylight theft arrest

• Master Blaster
  Aug 29, 2025

Never accept offers to race from strangers.

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• Japan
• (comedy • crime • Manzai • Osaka • shinkigeki • theft)

Train photographers caught shoplifting scores of items from Osaka Expo gift shops

• Master Blaster
  Aug 27, 2025

Suspects also ironically ripped off train companies to do it.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • crime • Osaka • otaku • photography • shoplifting • toritetsu • trains)

Plain, protein, and yakisoba…there’s a takoyaki for all at this specialty shop in Tokyo

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 21, 2025

We delight in some unusual octo-offerings at this Osaka-based takoyaki shop right smack in the middle of our own neighborhood.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Ganso Donaiya • Osaka • shinjuku • SNJO • street food • takoyaki • Tokyo)

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