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Ghibli Museum now lets you bring features of the building home with you…in cute miniature form

• Oona McGee
  Oct 24, 2023
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Wooden sign magnets are the newest addition to the “Tiny Ghibli Museum” collection. 

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• Japan
• (anime • anime art • anime merchandise • art • cute • Ghibli • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • magnets • merchandise • mini • miniature • shopping • signs • soot sprites • souvenirs • Studio Ghibli)

Crazy big Japanese street food at Tokyo Station causes a stir with foreigners online

• Oona McGee
  Oct 17, 2023

The only place in Japan where you can enjoy this super huge snack.

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• Japan
• (Calbee • Calbee Plus • chips • COK • food • Jagarico • Japanese potato chips • potato chips cool • Seiji Nakazawa • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • Tokyo Okashi Land • Tokyo Station • videos)

Does the Blue Mt Fuji Curry taste as terrifying as it looks?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 1, 2023

We go on a trek to conquer this mountain of curry, and end up learning something in the process.

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• Japan
• (blue curry • COK • cool • curry • curry rice • food • Fuji • Fujisan • fun • Japanese curry • Japanese food • Mt. Fuji • retort curry • review • SNJO • souvenirs • taste test • Yamanashi)

Death Spray from Japan causes buzz online for powerful ability to cut ties with bad energy

• Oona McGee
  Sep 25, 2023

Spray it at work and the company is doomed, spray it on the desk of a colleague and they’ll be transferred…this is a spray that’s not to be messed with.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • culture • cute • enkiri • fragrance • Mariko Ohanabatake • Oisesan • perfume • purification • room spray • salt • shopping • SNJO • souvenirs)

New rotating sushi pens from Japan bring the fun of a restaurant to your desktop

• Oona McGee
  Sep 11, 2023

Like a magical vertical conveyor belt.

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• Japan
• (Conveyor belt sushi • cool • cute • food • funny souvenirs • Japanese stationery • pens • revolving sushi • souvenirs • stationery • sushi • sushi pen)

New Japanese bath oils make you feel like you’re soaking in soy sauce and rayu chilli oil

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2023

Blurring the line between bath time and meal time in a very cool way.

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• Japan
• (bath • bath oils • bath salts • bath time • baths • chili oil • COK • cool • rayu • shoyu • souvenirs • soy sauce)

Sweet Tokyo food souvenir Tokyo Banana teams up with Kyoto matcha maker for brand new cake

• Dale Roll
  Jul 31, 2023

Tokyo’s most famous souvenir combines with its most famous flavor for an airport-only treat!

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• Japan
• (cake • Haneda Airport • Itohkyuemon • matcha • Narita Airport • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana • Uji Matcha)

New vending machines sell products from iconic Japanese stores

• Oona McGee
  Jul 22, 2023

It’s never been easier to shop at one of these famous stores.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • drink • food • Japanese vending machines • Kinokuniya • Loft • Seijo Ishi • souvenirs • vending machines • weird)

Japanese vending machine at Haneda Airport serves up cute cotton candy for tourists

• Oona McGee
  Jul 19, 2023

Tokyo Cotton Candy Shop is waiting to greet you upon arrival and bid you sayonara in a very kawaii way. 

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• (COK • cool • cotton candy • crazy • fairy floss • funny • Haneda Airport • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test • Tokyo Cotton Candy Shop • vending machines • weird)

Crystal Rock Cakes from Tokyo and Kyoto taste as elegant as they look

• Master Blaster
  Jun 23, 2023

Have your crystals and eat them too.

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• (Crystal Rock Cake • desserts • Kessho Rock Cake • Kyoto • pate de fruits • rock cake • souvenirs • Tokyo • Usagi no Nedoko)

Japanese balloon jellies, or “Tengu’s Treasure”, are a very unique souvenir

• Oona McGee
  Jun 19, 2023

Like a water balloon but with a sweet surprise inside that needs popping. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • fruit • Gunma • healthy • healthy eating • Japanese food • jelly • Konjac • konnyaku • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test)

Dango samurai swords appear in Tokyo’s Harajuku, so Mr Sato heads out to try them

• Oona McGee
  May 4, 2023

Crazy long sweets are about to take over your Instagram and TikTok feeds, but are they worth eating?

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• Japan
• (COK • dango • food • Fukuoka • Hakata Yamadaya • Hana Yori Dango • Harajuku • Japanese sweets • mitarashi dango • Mr. Sato • sakura • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test • Tokyo • wow • wtf)

Fukuoka pro-baseball team sells beer cups made from bats used by players

• Master Blaster
  Apr 15, 2023

Buy me some peanuts and cracked-bat-cups…♪

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• (Asahi Breweries • baseball • bats • beer • cups • Fukuoka • Fukuoka Softbank Hawks • Softbank • souvenirs • sports • wood)

Coca Cola releases new Mt Fuji bottles in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 4, 2023

Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa gets a new look for this souvenir coke bottle design. 

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• Japan
• (art • bottles • Coca-Cola • Coca-Cola bottles • COK • Coke • cool • design • drinks • Fuji • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • marketing • Mt. Fuji • souvenirs • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyo-e)

You can now buy Japan’s popular Yoku Moku Cigare cookies from a vending machine

• Katie Pask
  Feb 21, 2023

Popular butter cookies can now be found in a vending machine, so we try some!

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• Japan
• (Cigare • COK • cookies • food • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • vending machines • YOKU MOKU)

This lucky bag of Tokyo snacks is full of delicious treats to take home–wherever home is!

• Dale Roll
  Dec 31, 2022

There are 11 different items in this box–and they aren’t sample size either!!

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• Japan
• (food • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • lucky bags 2023 • omiyage • snacks • souvenirs • sweets • temiyage • Tokyo)

Looking to gift some food? Here are some of Japan’s most popular snacks with online sales

• Dale Roll
  Dec 26, 2022

These snacks, both salty and sweet, will be sure to satisfy anyone. 

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Fujin Gaho • gifts • Japanese sweets • omiyage • online shopping • ranking • snacks • souvenirs • sweets • temiyage)

Tokyo Banana’s Legendary Curry Bread tests the limits of what makes a good karepan 【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 11, 2022

New store at Tokyo Station goes bananas for curry bread…and doughnuts.

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• Japan
• (awesome • bananas • bread • COK • cool • crazy • curry • curry bread • doughnuts • food • Japanese food • karepan • Mr. Sato • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Bananas • Tokyo Station)

6 delicious, lesser-known food souvenirs you should buy on your next visit to Japan

• Dale Roll
  Nov 12, 2022

They also make great gifts to bring when visiting someone’s house!

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • food • gifts • omiyage • sembei • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • tasty • temiyage • travel)

The surprising truth about the new Tokyo Cacao Japanese KitKat

• Oona McGee
  Nov 11, 2022

Special regional variety is not all it seems. 

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• Japan
• (cacao • chocolate • COK • cool • food • Japanese chocolate • Japanese KitKats • Kit Kats • KitKats • Nestle • new • Ogasawara • ogasawara islands • regional KitKats • review • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test • Tokyo cacao • Tokyo islands)

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