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No yolk! Tamagoya egg café’s new menu disguises French toast, pancakes as other breakfast foods

Katy Kelly
May 30, 2018
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A Shizuoka cafe has ‘laid’ out a spread of tasty egg delights that mirror classic Japanese and Western breakfasts, as well as new ovoid desserts!

Japan
(cafe • eggs • food • pancakes • Shizuoka • tamagoya • tamagoyaki)

Travel through Japanese festivals and tourist sites with this stunning 8K highlight reel 【Video】

Katy Kelly
May 17, 2018

You’ll want to watch this astounding video more than once to soak in all the beauty they’ve packed into two-and-a-half minutes.

Japan
(4K • 8K • beautiful scenery • Hakodate • Shizuoka • Tokyo • tourism • toyokawa • video • Yakushima)

Police on the lookout for man offering young boys money for sneezes

Master Blaster
Apr 30, 2018

Suspect is said to provide tissues as well.

Japan
(creepy • crime • Hamamatsu • police • Shizuoka • sneeze)

Japanese company develops matcha paste that retains more health benefits than a cup of green tea

Oona McGee
Apr 25, 2018

The next new trend for gourmets is green tea pastes, in four differently coloured tea varieties.

Japan
(cooking • food • green tea • hojicha • matcha • new • recipes • sencha • Shizuoka • tea)

Japanese tea shop introduces $16-a-scoop matcha ice cream, has good reason for eye-popping price

Casey Baseel
Jul 3, 2017

Not just any green tea is good enough to become Daijinsho Matcha ice cream.

Japan
(crazy • expensive • green tea • ice cream • matcha • Shizuoka • sweets • tea)

Travelers can go back to school at cool Japanese hotel converted from rural schoolhouse

Casey Baseel
Jun 28, 2017

Come for the retro architecture, stay for the bath and swimming pool filled with onsen hot spring water!

Japan
(cool • hot springs • hotels • onsen • schools • Shizuoka • travel)

Japanese tea house creates gold-leaf covered matcha green tea gelato dessert

Oona McGee
May 9, 2017

Green tea lovers are going crazy for the taste and look of this unusual new dessert.

Japan
(food • gold • green tea • ice cream • matcha • Shizuoka • sweets)

Early-blooming sakura cherry blossoms create pink-tinged wonderlands in Japan

Oona McGee
Feb 24, 2017

People around the country are sharing stunning photos of the early-blossoming sakura in full bloom.

Japan
(cherry blossoms • hanami • Kawazu Sakura • sakura • Shizuoka • spring)

Japanese restaurant wows customers by serving meals on water instead of a revolving conveyor belt

Oona McGee
Nov 21, 2016

People have fallen in love with the charm of floating tubs at this unusual eatery in Japan.

Japan
(conveyor belt • cool • food • Japaanese food • restaurants • revolving sushi • Shizuoka • sushi • Sushi Train • water • wow)

Got tattoos, but still want to experience a Japanese hot spring? It’s no problem here!

Casey Baseel
Jul 19, 2016

At this enlightened facility, the management would rather people gaze at Mt. Fuji than worry about their fellow bathers’ body art.

Japan
(hot springs • Mt. Fuji • onsen • Shizuoka • tattoos • travel)

Japan creates Umeboshi Pickled Plum and Takuan Pickled Radish colas to pair with rice dishes

Oona McGee
May 29, 2016

The unusual new flavours are designed to go down well with traditional Japanese meals.

Food & Drink, Japan
(Coca-Cola • Cola • cool • drinks • pickles • rice • Shizuoka • umeboshi • weird flavors)

Service area in Shizuoka goes all out for the biggest and baddest Evangelion collaboration ever

Krista Rogers
Sep 8, 2015

Many Japanese service areas along major highways are well-stocked with (surprisingly) decent food courts and souvenir stands chock-full of local specialties. Some of them even take it to the next level and incorporate themes into their layouts, such as the Edo Period townscape service area in Saitama Prefecture.

One such stop, the EXPASA Ashigara Service Area located in Shizuoka Prefecture, is currently in the midst of a collaboration with the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise—and according to travelers who have already stopped by, they’ve spared no expense for this mind-blowing project.
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Japan
(Ashigara Service Area • collaboration • Neon Genesis Evangelion • Shizuoka • Tomei Expressway)

We brave fastballs from the world’s fastest (and most terrifying) pitching machine

Mike
May 25, 2015

If there were ever going to be some kind of cheesy, baseball-themed horror movie, we’re almost certain the mechanical antagonist would be this Shizuoka Prefecture pitching machine – the world’s fastest at a pitching speed of 230 km/h (143 mph) – which would probably be depicted firing a fastball directly through the torso of some cocky coed.

Record-setting and somewhat terrifying? You bet we had to go and take a shot at hitting one of those blazingly fast pitches. Well, like, not us. We’re too young and handsome to die. We sent one of our Japanese-language writers, instead.

Japan
(baseball • Shizuoka • sports • technology • travel)

The world’s most matcha-intense ice cream experience is waiting for you in Shizuoka

Casey Baseel
May 14, 2015

Even though Japan has been widely enjoying green tea for centuries and Western-style desserts for decades, it’s really only in the past 10 or 15 years that green tea sweets have really exploded in popularity. Out of the many varieties of green tea, matcha is considered to be the most luxuriously gourmet, with a richly deep aroma, flavor, and color.

The problem, though, it that matcha can be strongly bitter, which is why it’s usually served with Japanese confectionaries to take a little of its edge off. As such, a lot of sweets are billed as matcha fumi, or “green tea-taste” to show that while they’ve got a hint of matcha flavor, they’re not so heavily loaded with the stuff.

But if you want to unleash the full, unbridled force of matcha on your palate while you satisfy your craving for dessert, this shop in Shizuoka Prefecture boasts it has the most matcha-intense ice cream in the world.

Japan
(food • green tea • ice cream • matcha • Shizuoka • sweets • tea)

Japanese man goes missing at sea for 20 hours, then gets rescued by a lucky lifebelt

Scott R Dixon
Aug 2, 2014

While there’s nothing quite like a dip in the ocean on a hot summer day, this man’s quick swim-turned missing person’s case will serve as a great reminder why you should always be careful in Mother Nature’s swimming pool.

Earlier this week, a 29-year-old man from the city of Kobe was enjoying some sea-side bathing with his friends when a strong wind came, sweeping him far from the coast. His friends acted quickly, called the local police and a search ensued for 20 hours until the missing man turned up on a beach 40 kilometers to the south thanks to an incredibly lucky discovery.

Japan
(beach • emergency • ito • life saver • missing person • Ocean • shimoda • Shizuoka • summer • swimming)

We travel to Shizuoka to come face to face with the real-life Thomas the Tank Engine locomotive!

Kay
Jul 19, 2014

Well, it looks like train fans in Japan have something to be excited about — the real-life Thomas the Tank Engine, which has already attracted considerable attention on the Internet and media, is now in service! The Thomas steam locomotive, designed with a large face in the front to quite accurately recreate the well-known children’s character, started on its very first journey on July 12 with about 560 passengers on board. And since we knew this was a ride that would be sure to delight kids as well as adult train fans, one of the reporters from our Japanese site traveled to Shizuoka Prefecture in the center of Honshu, the main island, to see the “real Thomas” on his very first day in operation!

Japan
(Ōigawa Railway • Shizuoka • Thomas the Tank Engine • trains)

Park’s new water attraction is a dream come true for capybara lovers

Krista Rogers
Jun 10, 2014

Haven’t you ever secretly wanted to play with a pack of the world’s largest rodent? Even if you’re one of those people who don’t quite understand the allure of the water-loving capybara, a native of South America, the folks at Shizuoka Prefecture’s Izu Shaboten Park are on a mission to change your mind. The park is already famous for its capybara hot spring during the winter months, and it will soon add another capybara-themed attraction to its roster–the “Cabybara Rainbow Plaza,” in which you can actually engage in water play with the animals! How can you pass up this chance to play with Mickey Mouse’s bigger, perpetually spacey-looking cousins??

But don’t book your tickets quite yet, because the “Capybara Rainbow Plaza” opens on July 19. More details after the jump.

Japan
(capybaras • fountain • Izu Shaboten Park • Shizuoka • water)

Hamamatsu train station unveiled in miniature form

Oona McGee
Oct 22, 2013

There’s no denying that the world looks a whole lot cuter when it’s scaled down to miniature form, and even ordinary train stations are no exception to the rule. Hamamatsu station, in Shizuoka Prefecture, has been given the mini-me treatment, thanks to one of its renowned residents, award-winning modeler Takuji Yamada. On display in the city centre, people from all over Japan are gushing at the model’s remarkable quality and it’s amazing likeness to the original.