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Umaibo Festival campaign underway for Umaibo Day on 11 November

• Master Blaster
  Sep 21, 2025
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No one tell Pocky about this, OK?

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• Japan
• (contests • happi • holidays • Japanese festivals • snacks • umaibo • Umaibo Day • Umaibo Festival • Yaokin • yukata)

Contest underway for Pikachu Tokyo Banana 4-piece cushion set

• Master Blaster
  Sep 10, 2025

You can only enter and hope this Pikachu chooses you.

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• Japan
• (cakes • contest • cushions • food • nanab berry • Pikachu • pillows • Pokemon • snacks • Tokyo Banana)

A bag of chips could save you from drowning, according to water safety experts

• Master Blaster
  Aug 29, 2025

Have you hugged your chips lately?

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• Japan
• (chips • drowning • floatation device • potato chips • safety • snacks • summer • swimming)

Japan’s Kirby Choco Eggs hide figures that are too cute to resist

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 29, 2025

Mystery toy chocolate eggs leave us with a surprisingly delicious dessert.

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• Japan
• (anime • Choco Egg • chocolate • COK • cute • dessert • figures • Kirby • nintendo • shokugan • snacks • SNJO • sweets • Takuya Inaba • tart • toys • Waddle Dee • Waddle Doo)

The shape of Pocky is now legally trademarked in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2025

Manufacturer says it will “appropriately protect and utilize our trademark” of the iconic chocolate pretzel stick snack.

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• Japan
• (food • Glico • Pocky • snacks • trademark)

What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Don Quijote in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 2, 2025

Donki is a must-visit for tourists buying souvenirs, but locals have a different eye for what to find in store.

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• Japan
• (cheap finds • COK • cool • Don Quijote • Donki • drinks • food • Japanese food • japanese snacks • Japanese sweets • must-buys • must-haves • shopping • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets)

Investigating the mysterious “Shake Pippi” at Marugame Seimen udon restaurants

• Master Blaster
  Jun 27, 2025

It’s only natural to want to shake your pippi.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • fried foods • Marugame Seimen • Marugame Shake Pippi • Noodles • Pippi • restaurants • snacks • SNJO • udon)

Lawson changes its iconic egg sandwich, makes it bigger but smaller at the same time

• Oona McGee
  Apr 28, 2025

Japanese convenience store icon gets a whole new look.

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• Japan
• (Anthony Bourdain • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience store sandwich • convenience stores • egg sandwich • egg sandwiches • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lawson • news • snacks • SNJO • sweets)

Kyoto’s crazy expensive luxury chirimen nut clusters cost as much as a lunch, but are they worth it?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 23, 2025

A very unique, very pricy snack from Japan’s classiest town.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • expensive • expensive food • fish • food • Kyoto • nuts • snacks • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Why did the crazy-expensive version of Japan’s super-cheap corn snack sell out? We ask the artist

• Elliot Hale
  Apr 3, 2025

For the price of the 100,000-yen modern art Umaibo you could get over 6,600 of the regular puffed corn snacks, and whether its buyers will display or eat their new snacks remains to be seen.

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• Japan
• (art • COK • crazy • food • interview • modern art • Modern Art Flavor • snacks • SNJO • Tomokazu Matsuyama • umaibo • weird • werid)

Potato ice cream from Family Mart takes ice cream to a whole other level【Taste Test】

• Master Blaster
  Mar 15, 2025

If potatoes aren’t the future of ice cream, they should be.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • desserts • Family mart • ice cream • monaka • Potato Monaka • potatoes • snacks)

Our human reporter and her pet try Hokkaido’s “human-grade pet food” together【Taste test】

• Master Blaster
  Mar 12, 2025

The inter-species family that eats together stays together.

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• Japan
• (animals • COK • cookies • dog food • dogs • food • pet food • pets • snacks • SNJO • sweets • weird)

Japanese puffed corn snack to be sold for 110,000 yen as work of art

• Master Blaster
  Mar 10, 2025

Nearly identical Umaibo snacks cost 15 yen each.

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• Japan
• (art • Azabudai Hills Gallery • COK • crazy • food • modern art • Modern Art Flavor • snacks • Tomokazu Matsuyama • umaibo • weird)

Black Thunder grab event in Tokyo gets you a fistful of chocolate bars for less than 30 cents

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2025

How many of these iconic Japanese chocolates can we grab for 40 yen?

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • candy • chocolate • chocolates • cool • events • food • Harajuku • marketing • Shibuya • snacks • sweets • taste test • Tokyo • Yuraku Confectionery)

Lawson convenience stores now sell see-through pudding in Japan 【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 3, 2025

New “Can You See It? Purin” sends a clear message to the taste buds.

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• Japan
• (caramel • clear • clear sweets • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • creme caramel • Japanese convenience stores • jelly • konbini • Lawson • pudding • purin • see-through • snacks • SNJO • sweets • transparent)

Frito-Lay makes corn chips with shaketoba fish flavor just for Japan’s far north【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2025

What if you took a Dorito, ditched the cheese, and added salmon? You’d get Frito-Lay Japan’s shaketoba chips.

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• Japan
• (chips • COK • convenience stores • Doritos • food • Frito-Lay • Frito-Lay Japan • Hokkaido • jerky • salmon • Seicomart • shaketoba • snacks • SNJO • taste test)

Black Thunder has a luxurious cousin few have ever heard of【Taste test】

• Master Blaster
  Nov 25, 2024

Delux Milk Chocolate has stood in Black Thunder’s shadow for 30 years.

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • candy • chocolate • Delux Milk Chocolate • food • milk chocolate • snacks • taste test • Yuraku Confectionery)

Pringles releases a limited-edition sweet flavour in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 6, 2024

After receiving rave reviews in South Korea, this sweet variety looks set to sweep the nation.

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• Japan
• (caramel • chips • food • Japanese Pringles • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • new release • news • potato chips • Pringles • snacks • weird)

Tokaido Shinkansen Sushi Journey Bento takes your taste buds on a trip from Tokyo to Osaka

• Oona McGee
  Oct 15, 2024

Bullet train travel gets a tasty new ekiben upgrade.

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• Japan
• (bento • bullet train • COK • Ekiben • food • japanese snacks • Japanese trains • shinkansen • snacks • SNJO • sushi • Tokaido Shinkansen • tourism • train • train travel • trains • travel)

This non-sweet matcha treat is one of our new favorite Kyoto snack souvenirs【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 8, 2024

Umami no Mi Gyokuro is waiting right outside the Shinkansen gate at Kyoto Station.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Gion Tsujiri • green tea • gyokuro • kombu • Kyoto • Kyoto Station • matcha • snacks • SNJO • taste test • tea • Tsujiri)

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