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Don Quijote opens new sake and sweets stores at Tokyo Station

• Oona McGee
  May 28, 2021
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Famous discount chainstore dedicates one store to sweets and one to drinks, with popular products for tourists.

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• (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!

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• (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.

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• (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.

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• (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.

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• (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.

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• (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. 

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• (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. 

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• (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!

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• (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.

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• (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. 

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• (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.

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• (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.

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• (cool • culture • foreigners in Japan • hanko • inkan • kanji • souvenirs • tradition)

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

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• (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.

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• (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?

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• (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.

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• (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!

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• (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.

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• 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.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • limited edition • Nestle • Nestle Japan • souvenirs • Tokyo Banana)

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