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

• Oona McGee
  Aug 20, 2026
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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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• (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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• (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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• (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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• (Akihabara • cheap eats • COK • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • udon)

Mos Burger opens Mosh Burger ＆ Bar in Ginza, but is it fated to be a short-lived sensation?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 20, 2026

The curse of the specialty burger store threatens to strike again in Tokyo.

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• (fast food • food • Ginza • Mos Burger • Mosh Burger & Bar • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo)

Japan now has a takoyaki sandwich…created by a Michelin-listed restaurant

• Oona McGee
  Jul 15, 2026

Osaka’s popular street food gets a new life in sandwich form.

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• (food • Japanese sandwiches • Japanese street food • Michelin • Michelin restaurant • octopus balls • octopus dumplings • Osaka • restaurants • sandwich • sandwiches • SNJO • street food • takoyaki • weird food)

Onidon opens in Tokyo with unique fusion tempura rice balls you won’t find anywhere else

• Oona McGee
  Jul 14, 2026

Onigiri tendon looks set to become Japan’s newest viral food sensation.

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• Japan
• (food • Japanese food • new • Ochanomizu • Onidon • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • snacks • SNJO • tempura • tempura bowls • tendon • Tenya • Tokyo)

Man arrested in Tokyo after allegedly luring foreign tourists into shady Kabukicho establishments

• Oona McGee
  Jul 14, 2026

Tokyo police issue warning to overseas visitors as dozens of people report scams by suspected touts in the city’s nightlife district.

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• (bar barkers • bars • crime • Kabukicho • kyakuhiki • news • police • restaurants • shinjuku • street touts • Tokyo • touts)

Studio Ghibli theme park’s new dessert is a drinkable version of Hayao Miyazaki’s pilot daydream

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 10, 2026

This Hideout is both a dessert we’d like to drink and a place we’d like to be.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • anime • cafes • drinks • food • Ghibli Park • Hayao Miyazaki • manga • Porco Rosso • restaurants • Studio Ghibli • sweets • theme parks)

Famous sweets store in Ameyoko fills a bag with sweets and a show, but is it still worth it?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 8, 2026

This bargain bag comes with a unique performance, but things have changed over the years.

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• Japan
• (Ameya Yokocho • Ameyoko • Ameyokocho • cheap deals • chocolates • confectionery • restaurants • Shimura Shoten • shops • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo • Ueno)

Yoshinoya and Dragon Quest slaying scalpers with shift to made-to-order collaboration merch

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2026

Following suspiciously swift sell-out of Yoshinoya’s Dragon Quest Slime bowls, new policy means that everyone who wants one can buy one at the regular price.

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • COK • cool • cute • Dragon Quest • Dragon Quest Slime • dragon quest walk • food • gyudon • interior • restaurants • scalpers • slime • SNO • Square Enix • tableware • video games • Yoshinoya)

Kirby Cafe gets even cuter with new summer menu and dishware you can take home[Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2026

Nintendo’s big-appetite video game star is ready to get summer started.

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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • cute • food • Kirby • Kirby Café • nintendo • restaurants • sweets • themed cafes • themed restaurants • video games)

The quest for Dragon Quest Yoshinoya figure sets: Worth taking for fans, tricky for scalpers[Pics]

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2026

Dragon Quest Slimes appear at Yoshinoya, and the restaurant is trying to make sure they go home with actual fans.

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • COK • cool • cute • Dragon Quest • Dragon Quest Slime • dragon quest walk • figures • food • gyudon • restaurants • slime • SNO • Square Enix • toys • video games • Yoshinoya)

Mos Burger opens fancy burger shop and bar in Ginza, Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Jul 2, 2026

Mosh is a posh Mos.

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • Ginza • Mos Burger • Mosh Burger & Bar • restaurants • Tokyo)

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