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Burger King goes viral in Japan for opening new store in a Japanese-style building

• Oona McGee
  yesterday
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U.S. dining and Japanese architectural design come together at this eye-catching new location.

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• Japan
• (architecture • buildings • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • japanese architecture • restaurants • SNJO • traditional architecture • traditional building)

Tokyo’s red-light district cafe lets you dine inside a real 1960s cabaret

• Elliot Hale
  Sep 8, 2026

Used as a Netflix crime drama set, this safe, solo-female-friendly venue offers up black omurice and colorful retro sodas.

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• Japan
• (cabaret • cabaret club • cafes • COK • cool • drinks • food • Hinomaru Cabaret • Kabukicho • Natsuki Gojo • Niinana Kissa • omurice • restaurants • retro • Showa retro • SNJO)

Solo travel in Japan: $3 all-you-can-drink deal at this conveyor belt restaurant is a fun time for one

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2026

No need to feel self-conscious when you can use this automatic ordering and delivery system.

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• Japan
• (all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • solo dining • solo grill • solo travel • Tokyo • yakiniku)

Japan’s revolving sushi restaurant king Sushiro coming to U.S. this fall with high prices, no tipping

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 2, 2026

Sushiro, budget-friendly in Japan, is adding private rooms and full-course meals as it arrives in America for the first time.

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• Japan, USA
• (Conveyor belt sushi • food • Japanese food • Kaitenzushi • New York • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi • Sushiro • Times Square)

Onsen Egg Bukkake Udon Ice Cream makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about sweets

• Oona McGee
  Sep 2, 2026

This noodle dessert makes our brains malfunction.

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• Japan
• (desserts • food • ice cream • Kagawa • Kompira-san • Kompirasan • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • taste test • travel • udon • weird • weird food)

Japan’s most popular curry rice restaurant chain, Coco Ichibanya, might be for sale

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 1, 2026

Economic and cultural factors are making it hard to make money selling one of Japan’s favorite meals.

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• Japan
• (coco ichibanya • Cocoichi • COK • curry • curry rice • food • House Foods • restaurants)

Solo travel in Japan: Hidden beer garden in Tokyo is a haven for single visitors

• Oona McGee
  Aug 30, 2026

This rooftop in Kabukicho is a hidden oasis where all diners will feel welcome. 

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• Japan
• (beer gardens • cheap eats • food • izakaya • Japanese restaurants • Kabukicho • Restaurant • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • solo dining • solo travel • Tokyo)

Nagoya’s famous Shinkansen platform noodle shop has other, better branches nearby

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2026

Travelers love Sumiyoshi’s kishimen, but there’s a way to skip the long line and get a better deal on your meal.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japan travel • kishimen • Nagoya • Nagoya Station • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel • udon)

Ohaw? Ruibe? Pocche? While traveling in Japan’s north, we try Ainu cuisine for the first time

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 23, 2026

Taste-testing the northern frontier of local foods in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Ainu • Ainu food • Akanko Ainu Kotan • COK • culture • food • Hokkadio • Japan travel • Japanese food • Lake Akan • Lake Akanko • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Burger King Japan brings back its insane all-you-can-eat One Pounder Challenge

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 21, 2026

Can you eat more than 12 mega burgers in just 45 minutes for a chance at winning the national final?

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • One Pounder Challenge • one-pounder • restaurants)

Why do foreign tourists queue up to eat at Tokyo Little House?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 20, 2026

Little converted Japanese house has a very big following.

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• Japan
• (Akasaka • cafes • cinnamon toast • coffee • cool • foreign tourists • Japanese toast • restaurants • SNJO • toast • Tokyo Little House • tourism • tourists)

Tokyo pub prohibits talking or keeping your phone out, only lets you drink in morning on weekends

• SoraNews24
  Aug 19, 2026

There are a lot of hoops to jump through at Uchida, but is this 80-year-old pub worth the hassle?

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• Japan
• (alcohol • COK • cool • crazy • drinks.izakaya • food • motsu • pubs • restaurants • SNJO • weird)

Best burger in Tokyo? JB’s serves up a cheap craft burger that not a lot of people know about

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2026

There’s good reason why this burger chain is ranked in the top 100 Best Hamburgers in Japan.

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • JB’S Tokyo • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • Yoyogi)

Watch a sumo bout inside Tokyo Tower, at a new restaurant endorsed by two yokozuna

• Oona McGee
  Aug 15, 2026

Sumo and chanko nabe are just some of the highlights of this new Japanese culture experience.

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• Japan
• (chanko nabe • COK • cool • dining • dinner • Restaurant • restaurants • sport • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • Tokyo • Tokyo Sumo Stable Entertainment • Tokyo Tower • tourism • tourist sites • yokozuna)

Wagyu ramen for foreign tourists appears in Kabukicho, with a very high price tag

• Oona McGee
  Aug 12, 2026

What makes this bowl of noodles cost around twice as much as a regular ramen, and is it worth it?

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• Japan
• (beef • food • Japanese food • Kabukicho • Mita Seimenjo • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurant • ramen restaurants • restaurants • Tokyo • tourists • Wagyu)

Tokyo is getting a branch of famous Los Angeles hot dog chain Pink’s with Japan-exclusive items

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 10, 2026

87-year-old hot dog chain is going to learn some new tricks.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • hot dogs • Pink’s Hot Dogs • Pink’s Hot Dogs Japan • restaurants)

Kumamoto earthquake may have created Japan’s newest hot spring inside flooded restaurant [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 10, 2026

Kumamoto City izakaya began flooding with hot, sulfur-smelling water immediately after quake.

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• Japan
• (2026 Kumamoto earthquake • COK • crazy • disaster • earthquakes • hot springs • izakaya • Kumamoto • Kumamoto City • kumamoto earthquake • onsen • pubs • restaurants)

Yoshinoya gets into fancy fish, but is the cheap beef king reaching too far? [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2026

Japan’s biggest beef bowl chain is now serving up simmered kinmedai.

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • fast food • fish • food • gyudon • kinmedai • restaurants • sea bream • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)

Coco’s Japan is very confident in their chilled ramen, but should they be? [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2026

Premium-priced hiyashi chuka comes to the American coffee shop’s Japanese branches.

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• Japan
• (Coco's • Coco’s Japan • COK • cold ramen • food • hiyashi chuka • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)

“We want to be Japan’s best cheap restaurant” says new (but also not new) Akihabara noodle joint

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2026

Akihabara Ramen Center is dead. Long live Akihabara Seimen Center.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • cheap eats • COK • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • udon)

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