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Shibuya rats scuttle along streets in the wake of Typhoon Hagibis【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 13, 2019
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This Tokyo area is now being nicknamed “Rat Land” by people in Japan.

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• Japan
• (news • rats • Shibuya • Tokyo • twitter • typhoon • Typhoon Hagibis • videos)

Lobster ramen in Tokyo is amazingly good and amazingly cheap【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 9, 2019

A new restaurant in Shibuya takes the flavor of Hokkaido-style ramen upmarket, but leaves the price low.

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• Japan
• (awesome • COK • crazy • food • lobster • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Shibuya • SNJO • Tokyo)

We order a ridiculously long, thin serving of soft serve ice cream, get a big surprise instead

• Dale Roll
  Aug 12, 2019

What we were eating turned out to not, in fact, be soft serve ice cream at all!

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• Japan
• (delicious • ice cream • ice cream cone • raw ice cream • Shibuya • soft serve • summer • vanilla ice cream)

Shibuya convenience store overrun with rats 【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Aug 6, 2019

Turns out rodents love hanging out at konbini as much as people do.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • Jinnan • konbini • news • rats • Shibuya)

We ordered an Avengers: Endgame cocktail and got a drink brimming with the might of superheroes

• Koh Ruide
  Jul 12, 2019

Even Thanos would struggle to down this awesome drink themed after six iconic characters from the movie.

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• Japan
• (Ant-Man • Avengers: Endgame • bar • Black Panther • cocktail • Iron Man • pub • Shibuya • Spiderman • Superheroes • The Hulk • Thor)

Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood bans public Halloween drinking following mayhem

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 20, 2019

Truck-tipping vandalism a major part of tipping-point decision in ordinarily pro-alcohol Japan.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • ban • COK • crime • drunk • halloween • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • Shibuya truck • society • Tokyo • vandalism)

Mighty, meaty Tokyo ramen joint flips script by overflowing the bowl with delicious chashu pork

• Casey Baseel
  May 20, 2019

Delicious noodles and broth take up supporting roles as MEAT becomes the star of the show.

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• Japan
• (awesome • chashu • COK • crazy • food • meat • Noodles • pork • ramen • restaurants • Shibuya • SNOJ)

Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood likely to ban public drinking due to Halloween mayhem

• Casey Baseel
  May 14, 2019

Shibuya’s world-famous Halloween street parties may not be going away, but it looks like they’ll be going non-alcoholic.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • COK • crime • halloween • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • Shibuya truck • society)

Massive manga mural appears in Tokyo station with nearly 100 feet of anime’s biggest stars【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  May 9, 2019

Commuting through Shibuya subway station just got a lot cooler.

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• Japan
• (ads • anime • art • Attack on Titan • awesome • COK • cool • Kodansha • manga • Shibuya • Shibuya Station • Shueisha • SNOJ • stations • trains • Weekly Shonen Jump • Weekly Shōnen Magazine)

Girls spotted crying in Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood for a startling, invisible reason

• Krista Rogers
  May 7, 2019

Net users largely sympathize with a pair of girls in Tokyo’s popular youth culture shopping district over the reason for their tears.

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• (crazy • crying • funny • girls • sewers • Shibuya • Tokyo • twitter • weird)

Reiwa countdown: What happened when a new era arrived at Shibuya Scramble Crossing

• Oona McGee
  May 2, 2019

It was a bit like having your friends over for a party with your mum telling you to be quiet from the other room.

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• Japan
• (countdown • Mr. Sato • new era • Reiwa • Shibuya • Shibuya scramble crossing)

Japanese YouTuber sleeps on a bed in the middle of Shibuya Scramble Crossing【Video】

• SoraNews24
  Apr 13, 2019

A crowd of onlookers watched as he fell off the bed after his stunt.

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• Japan
• (arrests • Japanese Police • Japanese YouTubers • news • police • Shibuya • Shibuya scramble crossing • Tokyo • videos • YouTubers)

Naked woman runs through one of Tokyo’s busiest train stations, police say she’s not a criminal

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2019

Shibuya Station is an unusual place to pick for a jog even if you have your clothes on.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • funny • Shibuya • Shibuya Station • weird)

Japanese porn company wants to use virgin power to create electricity for romantic Tokyo event

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2019

VR videos of adult film actresses provide dirty thoughts to be turned into clean energy.

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• (beautiful women • carzy • clean energy • eco-friendly • electricity • environment • funny • Shibuya • Soft on Demand • virtual reality • VR • weird • white day)

Mr. Sato gets blown away by Wasabeef wasabi gyoza in Shibuya

• Master Blaster
  Mar 4, 2019

Wasabeef chips and gyoza are two great tastes, but do they go great together?

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• Japan
• (food • gyoza • Mr. Sato • potato chips • restaurants • Shibuya • Shibuya Gyoza • SNJO • Tokyo • Wasabeef • wasabi • Yamayoshi)

Tokyo’s heaviest/sleepiest drinkers chronicled in Twitter account’s photos and videos

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2019

Shibuya never sleeps, but these people who partied there are catching some alcohol-induced Zs.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • beer • crazy • drunk • funny • Shibuya • Tokyo)

San Francisco’s Dumpling Time arrives in Japan, opens in downtown Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Feb 2, 2019

Mr Sato meets the King-Dum Xiaolongbao.

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• Japan, USA
• (chinese food • Chinese restaurants • COK • Dumpling Time • dumplings • food • gyoza • Hikarie • restaurants • Shibuya • SNOJ • Tokyo • xiaolongbao)

Nintendo announces first-ever dedicated Nintendo shop in Japan, set to open in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2019

And, surprise, it’s not coming to video game mecca Akihabara.

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• Japan
• (nintendo • Nintendo Tokyo • Shibuya • shopping • Tokyo • video games)

Foreign university students among those under investigation for Tokyo Halloween truck-flipping

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 17, 2019

Tokyo police looking at 10 additional suspects, with list including Japanese nationals and foreigners from three European nations.

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• Japan
• (crime • halloween • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • Shibuya Halloween 2018 • Shibuya truck • vandalism)

Shibuya Scramble Crossing New Year’s Eve Countdown event report【Pics & Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 3, 2019

Crowds gathered at the city’s most famous intersection for a massive street party as police looked on.

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• Japan
• (Coca-Cola • Coca-Cola Japan • marketing • New Year's • New Year's Eve • news • nintendo • Shibuya • shibuya 109 • Shibuya scramble crossing • Super Mario • Tokyo)

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