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Don Quijote opens new sake and sweets stores at Tokyo Station
- Oona McGee
May 28, 2021 - Tweet
Famous discount chainstore dedicates one store to sweets and one to drinks, with popular products for tourists.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • Don Quijote • Donki • food • shopping • shops • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Station • weird)
Japanese manufacturing town hopes to boost tourism with iron-flaked ice cream
- Katy Kelly
Apr 26, 2021
Enjoy the refreshing taste of Tsubame Sanjo’s metalworking factories!
- Japan
- (ice cream • interesting • iron • metal • metalworking • souvenirs • tourism • Tsubamesanjo)
What it’s like to buy a canned railway stone in Japan
- Oona McGee
Apr 26, 2021
A can full of playfulness and surprises.
- Japan
- (canned products • cans • Chiba • COK • funny • Japanese trains • SNJO • souvenirs • stones • train stations • trains • weird)
Top 5 souvenirs to buy at Super Nintendo World, according to staff who work there
- Oona McGee
Mar 20, 2021
Tips from the pros to make sure you don’t miss out on the best merchandise.
- Japan
- (merchandise • nintendo • shopping • SNJO • souvenirs • Super Mario • Super Nintendo World • travel • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • video games)
Undress an ukiyo-e woman out of her kimono with this Japanese magic towel hack
- SoraNews24
Feb 17, 2021
You’ll need more than hot water to fully appreciate the beauty of this towel.
- Japan
- (art • beautiful women • crazy • magic towel • souvenirs • towels • ukiyo-e • ukiyoe • weird)
Ichiran Ramen calendar features moving parts so you can make every day noodle day
- Oona McGee
Dec 21, 2020
Recreating all the restaurant’s famous touches, including the serving of food from behind the bamboo curtain.
- Japan
- (calendars • COK • cute • food • gifts • Ichiran • interior • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • souvenirs • tonkotsu)
Pokémon Tokyo Banana haul: Will we find the rare Pikachu tail?
- Oona McGee
Nov 24, 2020
We buy stacks of the new limited-edition sweet souvenir to see if we can snare all six cute Pikachu designs.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • limited edition • omiyage • Pikachu • Pokemon • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana)
Tokyo Banana teams up with Pokémon for limited-edition Pikachu sweets collection
- Oona McGee
Nov 9, 2020
Tokyo’s best-selling sweet souvenir charges up with six cute Pikachu designs.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • limited edition • omiyage • Pikachu • Pokemon • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana)
Tokyo Banana and KitKat team up to offer limited-edition Caramel Banana KitKats
- Katy Kelly
Jul 25, 2020
The smash hit taste sensation is back! In KitKat form! Again!
- Japan
- (Kit Kat • Kit-Kat flavors • limited edition • omiyage • souvenirs • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Okashi Land)
First ever sales of popular Tokyo Banana cakes outside of Tokyo planned then cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Kay
Apr 11, 2020
Popular Japanese snack Tokyo Banana was set to venture into unchartered territory by opening shop in Osaka, but unfortunately, it was not to be.
- Japan
- (COK • coronavirus • food • Osaka • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana)
New Japanese KitKats feature sakura sake and a traditional cherry blossom dessert
- Oona McGee
Feb 21, 2020
Hanami flavours are accompanied by a special limited-edition Easter treat this year.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • chocolates • Easter • hanami • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKat • nihonshu • sake • sakura • sakura mochi • souvenirs)
What it’s like to eat a super expensive Japanese strawberry【Taste Test】
- Oona McGee
Jan 29, 2020
Luxury Japanese fruit meets the mouth of Mr Sato.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • expensive fruit • food • fruit • Isetan • Mr. Sato • shopping • SNJO • souvenirs • strawberries • strawberry • taste test)
Dodge the biggest problem of giving yourself a kanji name with these for-foreigner personal seals
- Katie Pask
Dec 30, 2019
Get a stamp of approval with your own Japanese personal seal complete with your Japanese kanji name.
Japanese KitKats now come in edamame milkshake flavour
- Oona McGee
Nov 27, 2019
New Zunda Shake variety perfectly blends chocolate with sweet soybeans. Read More
- Japan
- (chocolates • edamame • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat • KitKat • KitKats • Nestle • Nestle Japan • souvenirs • soy • soybeans • zunda)
Japanese KitKats now come in Gold Caramel Tokyo Banana flavour
- Oona McGee
Nov 19, 2019
New golden makeover supports hard workers like Olympics athletes.
- Japan
- (bananas • chocolates • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat • Kit Kats • KitKat • KitKats • Nestle • Nestle Japan • souvenirs • Tokyo Banana)
Can a Japanese person look good in one of those for-foreigner souvenir kimono? Mr. Sato finds out
- Casey Baseel
Nov 18, 2019
Gift shop kimono are almost nothing like the real thing, but can Mr. Sato’s fashion aura transcend national boundaries?
- Japan
- (COK • culture • fashion • foreigners in Japan • hanten • happi coat • kimono • Mr. Sato • SNJO • souvenirs)
Sakura Japanese Sake KitKats combine rice wine and cherry blossoms for a sweet hanami experience
- Oona McGee
Mar 22, 2019
Sakura-flavoured KitKats now come with 0.07 percent alcohol.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • chocolates • hanami • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKat • nihonshu • sake • sakura • souvenirs)
Taste the floor of a Japanese train station with new limited-edition chocolates from Tokyo Metro
- Oona McGee
Mar 6, 2019
Eat the walls, ceilings, floors and stairs of a dozen different stations!
- Japan
- (chocolate • chocolates • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • souvenirs • Tokyo • Tokyo Metro • trains)
Black Thunder shocks fans by suspending giri choco obligation chocolates on Valentine’s Day
- Oona McGee
Jan 11, 2019
A shock announcement from an avid supporter of Japan’s giri-choco tradition.
- Japan
- (Black Thunder • chocolates • giri choco • giri chocolate • obligation chocolate • souvenirs • Valentine's Day)
New Japanese Kit Kat features premium Tokyo Banana flavour…with crushed crepes
- Oona McGee
Dec 14, 2018
New premium Kit Kat comes with a premium professional pastry ingredient.
- Japan
- (chocolate • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • limited edition • Nestle • Nestle Japan • souvenirs • Tokyo Banana)
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12-year-old British girl who went missing in Tokyo found safe after visiting anime sites around Yokohama
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Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
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