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Attempted murder at a Japanese train station

• Oona McGee
  Dec 28, 2021
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Suspect says stranger “was in my way”.

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• Japan
• (arrests • crime • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • news • police • railway tracks • Saitama • train stations • trains)

We enjoyed Saitama’s finest hot springs, saunas, and views for less than 3,000 yen

• Shannon
  Dec 14, 2021

Looking for a cheap self-care destination? This could be it.

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• Japan
• (cheap travel • hot springs • Iruma City • onsen • Saitama • sauna • SNJO)

Free bus tours of Japan’s famous “Disaster Prevention Underground Temple” underway

• Master Blaster
  Dec 6, 2021

Take a free ride to one of the most famous storm drains in the world!

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• Japan
• (cool • Disaster Prevention Underground Temple • engineering • free • infrastructure • Kasukabe Station • Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel • Saitama • Tobu Railway • Tokyo • travel • Underground Temple • weird)

It’s time for a Hawaiian Hurricane Senbero from Yaoko in Saitama【Japan’s Best Home Senbero】

• Master Blaster
  Nov 25, 2021

This senbero is out of this world!

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• Japan
• (alcohol • food • hawaii • Hurricane Popcorn • Japan’s Best Home Senbero • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • Saitama • senbero • shopping • Yaoko Marketplace)

Saitama Prefecture scores its first Pokémon manhole covers in Tokorozawa City

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 9, 2021

These Pokéfuta pay homage to a family of beloved Dragon-types and Flying types.

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• Japan
• (manhole covers • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Saitama • Tokorozawa • Tokorozawa Aviation Museum)

Kawaguchi’s mascot Cupolan doesn’t mind that you think it looks like a turd

• Master Blaster
  Oct 12, 2021

It really is thick-skinned.

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• Japan
• (Cupola • Cupolan • Kawaguchi • Kyupora no Aru Machi • Mascots • poop • Saitama • yuru-kyara)

Japanese video game arcade entrance takes visitors on an adventure from the front door【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 5, 2021

Like clearing levels in a game before you get to the main boss. 

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• Japan
• (Arcades • game centers • gaming arcades • Saitama • twitter • video game arcades • video games • videos • viral videos • warehouse arcade)

Overly honest taiyaki restaurant flooded with customers after admitting to reducing sweet beans

• Master Blaster
  Sep 20, 2021

Honesty is the best store policy.

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• Japan
• (anko • Bunfukuya • business • customer service • food • Gyoda • honesty • Saitama • taiyaki)

We try fresh orange juice squeezed for us by a vending machine in Saitama【Taste test】

• Katie Pask
  Sep 17, 2021

Does fresh OJ taste even sweeter when it’s squeezed by a machine?

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• Japan
• (cool • drinks • Japanese vending machines • orange • Orange juice • Saitama • taste test • Tasuku Egawa • technology • vending machine)

We check out Films Wako, a “social apartment” building with a movie theater inside

• Dale Roll
  Sep 1, 2021

And the price for a room is actually super reasonable!

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• Japan
• (apartments • Films Wako • Saitama • share house • social apartments • Wakoshi)

We take a trip around the archetypal rich kid house from anime, music videos and movies

• Katy Kelly
  Aug 20, 2021

It’s time to congregate around the entrance gate and gasp in awe at how big and cool this house is.

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• Japan
• (architecture • cool • historical buildings • Iruma City • Ishikawa-gumi-Seishi • Saitama • SNJO • tourism • Western style)

Saitama Police chief arrested busted for stealing toilet paper

• Master Blaster
  Jun 4, 2021

Pillar of the community caught with five lines of the white stuff.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • crime • Konosu • police • Saitama • theft • toilet paper)

Saitama welfare official threatened into giving out executive-level-salary worth of benefits

• Master Blaster
  May 28, 2021

“Relentless threats” resulted in person or persons getting over 12 million yen in benefits.

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• Japan
• (crime • employment • extortion • Saitama • Sakura Ward • threats • welfare)

En garde! Fencer Taxi begins in Tokyo, Saitama, and Kanagawa

• Master Blaster
  May 3, 2021

“Pointless” you say? Touché…

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• Japan
• (2020 Tokyo Olympics • crazy • Fencer Taxi • fencing • Kanagawa • Saitama • Sanwa Kotsu • sports • taxis • Tokyo • transportation • weird)

City Councilman Super Crazy Kun’s election victory ruled invalid by commission

• Master Blaster
  Apr 11, 2021

Toda City representative vows to fight like super crazy to retain his position.

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• Japan
• (city council • election • Makoto Nishimoto • politics • Saitama • Super Crazy Kun • Toda)

New traffic safety collaboration with Crocodile Who Dies in 100 Days sends mixed messages

• Katy Kelly
  Apr 9, 2021

Fans of the viral hit comic will notice a subtle and worrying detail in this well-intentioned project.

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• Japan
• (corodile • Crocodile Who Dies in 100 Days • cute • manga • sad • Saitama • SNJO • society • traffic safety)

We visited Saitama’s Pokémon GO-themed cafe to live the Pokémon trainer dream【Photos】

• Shannon
  Apr 8, 2021

Finally, a cafe specially designed for Pokémon GO trainers!

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• Japan
• (anime • cafes • COK • Pokemon • Pokémon Cafe • Pokémon GO • restaurants • Saitama • SNJO • video games)

Saitama officially forbids walking up and down escalators

• Master Blaster
  Apr 2, 2021

They’ve become the first prefecture in Japan to do so.

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• Japan
• (culture • escalator • etiquette • law • ordinances • safety • Saitama)

Japanese school lunch noodles fried so hard that children and teachers chip teeth, go to hospital

• Scott Wilson
  Mar 13, 2021

Underneath those vegetables lies a mass of crunchy nightmares.

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• Japan
• (elementary school • japanese school • Japanese school lunch • Saitama • sara udon • udon)

Saitama begins plans to regulate how to use escalators, prohibit walking up and down

• Master Blaster
  Feb 14, 2021

Although walking is common practice, support for banning it is strong online.

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• Japan
• (escalators • etiquette • laws • ordinances • safety • Saitama)

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