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How to make a secret rice bowl at Ichiran ramen
- Oona McGee
May 5, 2024 - Tweet
The Ichirandon is causing a stir amongst fans, but it’s a secret dish that isn’t listed on the menu.
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- (COK • donburi • food • hack • Ichiran • Japanese food • Non-ramen Ramen Restaurant Stars • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurants • rameshi • restaurants • review • Rice Bowl • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • tonkotsu • tonkotsu ramen • tourists)
Icon’s Mac & Cheese Burger contender for best burger in Tokyo【Taste test】
- Master Blaster
May 2, 2024
They’re overflowing with pasta and quality.
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- (awesome • burgers • COK • crazy • food • hamburgers • mac & cheese • mac & cheese burgers • mac and cheese • macaroni and cheese • restaurants • SNJO • weird)
FUK COFFEE?!? Japanese cafe has a perfectly innocent reason for its startling-looking name
- Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2024
Don’t worry. FUK COFFEE really does love coffee.
Japanese-style accommodation at the new Premium Dormy Inn hotel in Asakusa will blow your mind
- Oona McGee
Apr 28, 2024
Free perks and beautiful design features make this more like a ryokan than a business hotel.
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- (Asakusa • breakfast • buffet • business hotels • COK • Dormy Inn • food • hot springs • hotels • onsen • restaurants • review • ryokan • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • traditional Japan • travel)
Should you add tartar sauce to Japanese curry rice? CoCo Ichi makes diners an unusual offer
- Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2024
A taste test this strange can only be handled by Mr. Sato.
- Japan
- (coco ichibanya • COK • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • tartar sauce • taste test • weird)
Red light district sushi restaurant in Tokyo shows us just how wrong we were about it
- Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2024
Mr. Sato finally heads to Kabukicho’s Yaro Sushi.
Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
- Master Blaster
Apr 23, 2024
Times are tougher than undercooked noodles.
- Japan
- (banknotes • bills • business • currency • food • ramen • restaurants • vending machines)
Non-ramen Ramen Restaurant Stars: The quest begins at Tokyo’s Oreryu Shio
- Casey Baseel
Apr 22, 2024
We’re searching for the best non-ramen items on ramen restaurant menus.
- Japan
- (COK • donburi • food • Non-ramen Ramen Restaurant Stars • omrice • omuraisu • ramen • restaurants • rice bowls • SNJO)
French Fries Bread in Tokyo’s Shibuya becomes a hit on social media
- Oona McGee
Apr 22, 2024
Taking carb-on-carb meals to new extremes.
- Japan
- (bread • cool • cool food • food • french fries • new restaurant • restaurants • review • Shibuya • SNJO • social media • taste test • Tokyo • weird food)
Hamster abandoned at Tokyo ramen restaurant gets new home
- Casey Baseel
Apr 19, 2024
Not exactly the typical lost-and-found item.
Randomly running into a great sushi lunch like this is one of the best things about eating in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Apr 16, 2024
Our always-early reporter finds a great meal almost without even trying in the downtown Kanda neighborhood.
Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!
- Shannon
Apr 15, 2024
We commemorate the new Hokuriku Shinkansen route with a truly local meal.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Fukui • fukui prefecture • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Hey Taxi Driver • Hokuriku Shinkansen • Japanese taxi driver • katsudon • pork cutlet • restaurants • sauce katsu • sauce katsudon • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • travel • Tsuruga)
Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2024
Five Disney princesses are popping into Shibuya, and bringing some very unique merch with them.
- Japan
- (anime • cafes • Disney • Disney princesses • manga • restaurants • Shibuya • themed cafes)
How to make an epic pizza at a Japanese family restaurant
- Oona McGee
Apr 13, 2024
Eating on the cheap doesn’t have to be boring.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • family restaurants • food • food hack • food hacks • Gusto • hacks • pizza • restaurants • review • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • taste test • Tokyo)
Hamburg and Hamburg Shibuya: A Japanese restaurant you need to put on your Tokyo itinerary
- Oona McGee
Apr 13, 2024
New restaurant becomes a hit on social media, and for good reason.
- Japan
- (food • hamburg • hamburger steak • Japanese food • meat • Mr. Sato • restaurants • review • salisbury steak • Shibuya • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)
Hanton rice — a delicious regional food even most Japanese people don’t know about, but more should
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2024
We head to Kanazawa to visit the birthplace of this “hungry tuna” dish that doesn’t contain tuna.
- Japan
- (COK • food • hanton rice • Kanazawa • omrice • omuraisu • restaurants • rice omelet • SNJO • taste test)
A new meaty dawn for Akihabara as neighborhood’s best steak/hamburger steak restaurant reopens
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2024
Man oh man it’s good to have Mansei around.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • beef • COK • food • hamburger steak • Mansei • meat • Niku no Mansei • restaurants • SNJO • steak)
Tokyo restaurant’s chicken katsu mabo curry is hard to pin down, easy to love
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2024
One plate with two great tastes that somehow create a third.
- Japan
- (COK • curry • curry rice • food • mabo tofu • mapo tofu • restaurants • SNJO)
Japanese black curry “experiment” takes place at an unlikely restaurant branch in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Apr 9, 2024
A unique katsu curry that’s only available at one place in all of Japan right now.
- Japan
- (curry • food • Japanese curry • Japanese food • katsu curry • Kokkai • Matsunoya • Mitaka • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)
Tokyo restaurant offers “DIY Tempura Bowls,” so of course we had to go check it out
- Dale Roll
Apr 8, 2024
Do you cook it yourself? Put it together yourself, buffet style? What does it mean?!?!
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Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
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Japan announces new permanent residency guidelines, foreigners must earn more than average Japanese person
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Lady Gaga and Family Mart team up for a Japanese convenience store work video [Video]
New Gundam Base superstores coming soon in the U.S., with one opening this month
Studio Ghibli releases new plush mascot character collection with a focus on friendship
Studio Ghibli releases new onigiri rice ball-shaped lunch bag for Kiki’s Delivery Service fans
Do Japan’s new single-minded convenience store bento show depressing poverty or satisfying focus?
How to watch Studio Ghibli’s new anime in Japan, with a special after-dark outdoor screening for Halloween
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
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Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa
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My Neighbor Totoro calendar for next year can be yours right now at Donguri Kyowakoku
Tokyo government announces removal of all public phones from city’s Toei subway stations
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“We’d heard Japan’s sentences are light” say foreign travelers arrested for Tokyo robberies
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