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Potential-measuring techno crystals, mist that doesn’t get you wet to be part of Osaka Expo 2025
- Master Blaster
Feb 19, 2025 - Tweet
Wait no m0re for The Land of Nomo.
- Japan
- (2025 Osaka World Expo • COK • cool • events • Osaka • Panasonic • pavilion • technology • The Land of Nomo)
Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, violators will be fined by patrols, vaping included
- Casey Baseel
Jan 28, 2025
Japan’s third-largest city expands smoking ban ahead of world’s fair.
- Japan
- (COK • Expo 2025 • Osaka • Osaka Expo • Osaka Expo 2025 • smoking • tourism • travel)
Lucky leaping leopards! It’s the fukubukuro for Osaka ladies and now men too
- Master Blaster
Jan 25, 2025
Ride the tiger!
- Japan
- (COK • fashion • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • funny • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • Masanuki Sunakoma • Naniwa Komachi • Osaka • Osaka Obachan • SNJO)
Retro game arcade severely damaged in fire in Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 23, 2025
Fire breaks out at Osaka arcade popular with foreign tourists, motorcycle in building may have made situation worse.
- Japan
- (Arcades • COK • fire • game centers • Osaka • retro games • Tsutenkaku • video • video games)
Osaka woman causes 8 separate traffic accidents in 35 minutes
- Master Blaster
Jan 23, 2025
Suspect claims she wasn’t driving dangerously and wasn’t driving.
- Japan
- (crazy • crime • hit-and-run • Osaka • police • Shin-Midosuji • traffic accidents • weird)
These nine Osaka restaurants are the newest to receive Michelin guide recommendations
- SoraNews24
Jan 16, 2025
Nine new restaurants make the list in west Japan’s biggest foodie town.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Michelin • Michelin Guide • Michelin restaurant guide • Osaka • restaurants • tourism • travel)
Japanese train station vending machine has the best souvenirs for rail otaku
- Oona McGee
Dec 22, 2024
A chance encounter leads to a deeper love for Japanese trains.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • Japanese train stations • Japanese vending machines • Kansai • Kintetsu • Kintetsu Railway • Osaka • SNJO • train stations • trains • vending machines)
Japan now has fish-shaped soy sauce bottle hand cream
- Oona McGee
Dec 18, 2024
Still serves up soy, but in a different way.
- Japan
- (beauty • bento • COK • cool • crazy • cute • food • hand cream • Heso • Heso Productions • Japanese food • LOL • Osaka • sashimi • shopping • souvenir • soy • soy sauce • soy sauce bottle • sushi • weird)
Japanese city paints well-known prostitution street bright yellow, adds fish art【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2024
Osaka thinks it has a bright idea to combat tachinbo.
Kotatsu in the Sky returns to the Osaka Wheel, Japan’s tallest Ferris wheel
- Krista Rogers
Dec 10, 2024
Visitors to Osaka over the winter should book this special service to experience the warmth and coziness of the Japanese kotatsu with stunning views.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • cozy • Ferris wheel • hot sake • kotatsu • oden • Osaka • Osaka wheel • ride • scenery • Showa retro • warm • winter)
Savor the sass in Osaka’s new obachan-inspired buns
- Elliot Hale
Nov 28, 2024
This playful souvenir is packed with personality.
- Japan
- (bakeries • bread • COK • food • food souvenirs • obachan • Osaka • Osaka Oba-chan • Osaka Obachan • sweets)
Japan’s newest life-size Gundam is finished, receives Shinto blessing in Osaka【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 25, 2024
RX-78F00/E Gundam strikes a pose ahead of opening of world’s fair.
- Japan
- (anime • awesome • cool • crazy • Expo 2025 • Gundam • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Osaka • shinto • video • world's fair)
Japanese karaoke chain brings singing in the bathroom to a whole new level
- Elliot Hale
Oct 12, 2024
Everyone needs to know how amazing you are when you sing in the shower!
- Japan
- (COK • Jankara • Japanese karaoke • karaoke • karaoke box • karaoke shop • Osaka)
Osaka zookeeper caught stealing chimpanzees’ food
- Master Blaster
Oct 5, 2024
Victims claim to have seen no evil, heard no evil, nor spoken no evil.
- Japan
- (chimpanzees • crime • food • Osaka • Tennoji Ward • Tennoji Zoo • theft • weird)
Visiting a hot spring complex made out of a repurposed elementary school in Osaka
- Master Blaster
Aug 27, 2024
It’s the best place to learn a thing or two about hot springs.
- Japan
- (hot springs • Ibuki Onsen • Ibuki Village • onsen • Osaka • rural life • Seiji Nakazawa • travel)
Kansai-exclusive takoyaki Cup Noodle lives up to half of the expectations its name produces
- Casey Baseel
Aug 26, 2024
Thankfully it’s the most important half.
- Japan
- (COK • Cup Noodle • cup ramen • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Kansai • Nissin • Noodles • Osaka • ramen • SNJO • takoyaki • taste test • weird)
Osaka dragon’s tail must be cut off, high court rules in Osaka ramen restaurant case
- Casey Baseel
Aug 20, 2024
Landmark Dotonbori ramen restaurant’s famous dragon is going to be cut down to legally allowable size.
Japanese cafe has speech-to-text displays for conversation with hard-of-hearing staff and customers
- Casey Baseel
Aug 12, 2024
New Shojo Cafe Bar continues owners’ mission to “create environments where disabilities disappear.”
- Japan
- (accessibility • cafes • COK • deaf • disabilities • hearing impaired • Osaka • restaurants)
Epic cutlet sandwiches in Osaka are the best Shinkansen bento
- Oona McGee
Aug 11, 2024
A tasty way to travel on the bullet train.
- Japan
- (bento • big eats • bullet train • cutlet sandwich • Ekiben • food • Japanese food • katsu • katsu sandwich • Osaka • sandwiches • shinkansen • train stations)
Beautiful afternoon tea lounge lets you look at and eat Osaka Castle【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2024
A taste of a luxurious view in Osaka.
- Japan
- (afternoon tea • cafes • COK • DoubleTree • DoubleTree by Hilton Osaka Castle • food • Hilton • hotels • Osaka • Osaka Castle • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • tea • tourism • travel)
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New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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