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A report from the Kura Sushi sushi-making world championships【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2025 - Tweet
22 teams gather, but only one can walk away with the title of best Kura Sushi chefs in the world.
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi)
Back to the Future burgers coming to J.S. Burgers Cafe for film’s 40th anniversary
- Master Blaster
Sep 14, 2025
The Power of Beef.
- Japan
- (back to the future • Biff Tannen • burgers • food • J.S. Burgers Cafe • Marty McFly • movies • restaurants)
Catch Gengar croissants and Lucario sodas at Pronto’s Pokémon collab this fall
- Elliot Hale
Sep 13, 2025
With original goods and seven fully-decorated stores, it’s the perfect event for any Pokémon fan.
- Japan
- (anime • cafes • character goods • COK • cool • cute • drinks • food • Pokemon • Pronto • restaurants • video games)
Take a look inside the Future Train, a unique new restaurant diner and cafe in Kyoto
- Oona McGee
Sep 13, 2025
A retired Thunderbird gets a pink facelift and futuristic interiors that’ll whisk you away to another world.
- Japan
- (cafe • cool • Ekiben • food • Future Train • Future Train Kyoto Diner & Cafe • Japanese food • Japanese trains • Kyoto • pink • restaurants • Sebastian Masuda • themed restaurants • Thunderbird • trains)
Upcoming themed cafe answers the question “What if Hokusai had opened an eatery?”
- Krista Rogers
Sep 2, 2025
The tie-in cafe to a Hokusai exhibition at the Creative Museum Tokyo will feature a menu that pays homage to the beloved artist’s famous works.
- Japan
- (art • cafes • COK • Creative Museum Tokyo Cafe • drinks • food • hokusai • Hokusai Manga • restaurants • sweets • themed cafes • ukiyo-e • woodblock art • woodblock prints)
With prices in Japan rising for everything else, one beef bowl chain announces price cuts
- Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2025
Sukiya swims against the economic current by permanently reducing gyudon prices.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • fast food • food • gyudon • restaurants • Sukiya)
Why does this sushi restaurant serve raw tuna in an ice cream cone?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2025
Totomaru shatters our expectations, but can they win our hearts?
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • crazy • food • ice cream • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • weird)
Tokyo’s Vampire Cafe serving up blood-sauce burgers and sweets with fire and dark magic spells
- Casey Baseel
Aug 28, 2025
Guilty Pleasure menu remorselessly targets meat lovers and dessert fans.
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • cool • food • Horror • restaurants • scary • themed cafes • themed restaurants • Vampire Cafe • vampires)
Tokyo cafe staffed by robots piloted by paralyzed and otherwise housebound people
- Master Blaster
Aug 25, 2025
It’s the Dawn of a new restaurant experience.
- Japan
- (accessibility • Avatar Robot Cafe • cafes • Chuo • Dawn • disabilities • employment • OriHime • OryLab • restaurants • robots • Tokyo)
Kyoto’s pinkest, cutest new restaurant is the start of a new life for retired train cars
- Casey Baseel
Aug 25, 2025
Future Train Kyoto Diner & Cafe has a touch of the past too.
Tokyo has a brand new Harry Potter shop with its own butterbeer bar – Let’s see what’s inside【Pics】
- SoraNews24
Aug 14, 2025
The wizarding world comes to the Harajuku fashion district.
- Japan
- (butterbeer • cafes • COK • drinks • food • Harajuku • Harry Potter • movies • Omotesando • restaurants • SNJO • themed cafes)
Japan’s reverse maid cafe lets cosplaying customers play the part of maids in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Aug 14, 2025
Become a Maid flips the maid cafe script.
- Japan
- (cafes • cosplay • cosplayers • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • themed cafes)
Sanrio’s Kuromi Kuromifies high tea with Kuromi Afternoon Tea Party in Japan【Photos】
- SoraNews24
Aug 13, 2025
We get classy and cute on a trip to Tohoku to try Kuromi’s take on afternoon tea.
- Japan
- (afternoon tea • cafes • COK • cute • hotels • Kuromi • restaurants • Sanrio • Sendai • SNJO • sweets • tea • tourism • travel • Westin • zunda)
Conveyor belt sushi system for world cuisine? Special Kura Sushi branch has food from over 70 countries
- SoraNews24
Aug 5, 2025
Kura Sushi shows up at the world’s fair with food from around the globe that it sends around the restaurant.
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • Expo 2025 • food • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO)
Is katsudon a dish best served cold? Trying out the new Hiyashi Dashi Katsudon in Tokyo【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 29, 2025
West Japan pork cutlet chain has arrived in Tokyo, and it’s brought something unusual for the summer.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • pork cutlet bowl • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)
What’s inside a Japanese taco?
- Oona McGee
Jul 28, 2025
Taco restaurant serves up some surprises in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • El Rey Amigo • food • fusion food • Japanese food • Mexican food • restaurants • SNJO • taco • tacos • taste test • Tokyo)
Visiting Ramen River, a Japanese restaurant that’s only open two hours a day
- Oona McGee
Jul 24, 2025
If you don’t get here half an hour before opening, chances are they’ll already be sold out.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • countryside • food • hidden gems • Japanese countryside • Nara • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurant • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • travel • weird • Yoshino)
Popular Osaka all-you-can-eat yakiniku chain Yakiniku Rikimaru opens its first location in Tokyo
- Krista Rogers
Jul 24, 2025
In celebration of its opening, diners can also receive 20 percent off their bill if they hurry.
- Japan
- (all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • COK • food • Ikebukuro • meat • restaurants • Rikimaru • SNJO • Tokyo • yakiniku • Yakiniku Rikimaru)
We found a literal hole in the wall in Tokyo for great coffee at amazing prices
- Casey Baseel
Jul 20, 2025
We’d have fallen in love with this Harajuku spot even if they didn’t give you free dessert (but they do).
- Japan
- (cafes • coffee • COK • cool • drinks • Harajuku • Himitsu no Drip • restaurants • SNJO • weird)
We both do and do not recommend hiking to Tokyo’s beautiful mountain beer garden in midsummer
- Casey Baseel
Jul 12, 2025
The experience isn’t all mountain views and cold drinks.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • alcohol • all you can drink • beautiful • beer • COK • drinks • food • hiking • Mountains • Mt. Takao • nature • outdoors • restaurants • SNJO • Takao • tourism • travel)
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Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
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- Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
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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
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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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