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Pokémon doughnuts pop up at Mister Donut, with a new gathering that’s bigger than ever
- Oona McGee
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The “Everyone Gather Together! Winter Pokémon Campaign” goes all out for the 30th anniversary celebrations.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cute • diglett • donuts • doughnuts • food • manga • Mister Donut • Pikachu • Pokemon • sweets • video games)
Cold Stone is closing its final branch in all of east Japan, but it’s going down singing
- Casey Baseel
Oct 31, 2026
Parting is such very, very sweet sorrow.
- Japan
- (COK • Cold Stone • Cold Stone Japan • food • ice cream • Mr. Sato • SNJO • sweets)
Burger King Japan shuns Shibuya Halloween spirit, but keeps it alive everywhere else
- Casey Baseel
Oct 30, 2026
No tricks or treats is the plan at Shibuya Center-gai, but cool sweets will be waiting at every other branch.
- Japan
- (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • cool • fast food • food • halloween • ice cream • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • sweets)
Japan’s super cute tanuki bread skips tricks, promises to be treat for your eyes and taste buds
- Casey Baseel
Oct 28, 2026
You can trust this tanuki to be as sweet on the inside as it looks on the outside.
This Tokyo snack shop can send your taste buds on a trip around Japan for just 1,000 yen
- Casey Baseel
Oct 26, 2026
There’s a new sweets curator in downtown Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japan travel • Marui • senbei • shinjuku • snacks • SNJO • sweets • tourism • travel)
Mochido donuts make a squishy return to Lawson stores across Japan
- Master Blaster
Oct 26, 2026
Mochido or Mochidon’t. There is no Mochitri.
- Japan
- (COK • convenience stores • donuts • Japanese convenience stores • kinako • Lawson • Mochibee • Mochido • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Pikachu Shortcake Sandwich set to be Tokyo’s newest photogenic treat for Pokémon Trainers
- Casey Baseel
Oct 24, 2026
Pikachu Sweets bakes up new treats to celebrate Pokémon’s 30th birthday.
- Japan
- (anime • cute • Eevee • food • manga • Pikachu • Pikachu Sweets • Pokemon • Sunshine City • sweets • video games)
One of Tokyo’s most beautiful soft serve ice creams is also one of its trickiest to find [Photos]
- Casey Baseel
Oct 23, 2026
Mr. Sato’s determination pays off in treat for the eyes and taste buds.
- Japan
- (COK • food • ice cream • Mr. Sato • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • Toranomon Hills)
Family Mart enters the soft serve game with giga-sized cones of milk or matcha goodness
- Krista Rogers
Oct 22, 2026
Four stores in Tokyo recently started selling the soft serve in three flavors with little to no fanfare. Read More
- Japan
- (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • konbini • Mr. Sato • SNJO • soft cream • soft serve • sweets • Tokyo)
Japan’s Pokémon donuts are back at Mister Donut, with Slowpoke making dount debut! [Pics]
- Casey Baseel
Oct 21, 2026
Slowpoke will naturally, though, be arriving a little later than Pikachu and Diglett.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cute • diglett • donuts • food • manga • Mister Donut • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon donuts • Slowpoke • sweets • video games)
Giant wagashi cushions will turn your home sweet home into home sweet Japanese sweets home
- Casey Baseel
Oct 10, 2026
Nitori lets you cuddle up with taiyaki, dorayaki, and more.
- Japan
- (cool • crazy • cushions • cute • dorayaki • food • interior • Japanese food • Japanese sweets • Nitori • sweets • taiyaki • wagashi • weird)
Matcha ice cream discontinued by one of Japan’s favorite ice cream brands
- Casey Baseel
Oct 9, 2026
24 years after its debut, green tea flavor gets kicked out of the Super Cup family.
- Japan
- (Essel Super Cup • food • green tea • ice cream • matcha • matcha sweets • Meiji • super cup • sweets)
Three amazing Japanese convenience store sweet potato desserts to eat right now (and 11 for later)
- Casey Baseel
Sep 22, 2026
A roadmap for starting your journey of eating your way through Family Mart’s sweet potato sweets lineup.
- Japan
- (beni haruka • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • SNJO • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test)
Tokyo cafe challenges customers to play with their food? Challenge accepted!
- Casey Baseel
Sep 21, 2026
Riding the waves and eating the sweets in Asagaya.
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • cool • food • gelato • Japanese food • Japanese sweets • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taiyaki)
Japanese sweet potato ice cream season! Häagen-Dazs and Muji take different paths to our hearts
- Casey Baseel
Sep 21, 2026
Two completely different ways to make a delicious Japanese autumn dessert.
- Japan
- (beni haruka • beniharuka • COK • food • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream • muji • Mujirushi • Mujirushi Ryohin • SNJO • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test)
JAL first class cakes can be bought for a bargain, but are they as bougie as they seem?
- Oona McGee
Sep 19, 2026
In Japan, a cake that’s “imperfect” can sometimes be perfect.
- Japan
- (airline food • cake • cakes • first class • JAL • Japan Airlines • Japanese cakes • Japanese sweets • SNJO • sweets)
Snow Salt Soft Cream Cafe & Bar for grown-ups opens in Tokyo’s Ueno area with a bookish surprise
- Krista Rogers
Sep 16, 2026
Adults can indulge in a coffee or alcoholic beverage paired with soft serve ice cream at this new oasis of calm in the city.
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- Japan
- (affogato • bars • cafes • COK • food • ice cream • SNJO • Snow Salt • soft serve • sweets • Tokyo • Ueno)
Japan’s new delicious dark horse sweet potato dessert drink is waiting at a beef bowl chain
- Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2026
A beniharuka shake rolls into Sukiya as sweet potato season gets underway.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • beni haruka • beniharuka • food • gyudon • milk shakes • shakes • SNJO • Sukiya • sweet potato • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test • yaki imo • yakiimo)
The confusing enjoyment of our day-trip bus tour from downtown Tokyo to Yamanashi [Photos]
- Casey Baseel
Sep 14, 2026
This bus tour wasn’t exactly what we’d expected, but it turned out to be something we wanted.
- Japan
- (beautiful • bus tours • buses • COK • flowers • food • fruit • Heidi • Japan travel • nature • peaches • shingen mochi • SNJO • Sunflowers • sweets • tourism • travel • Yamanashi)
Japanese pudding gets a massive big-eats upgrade at this Tokyo cafe
- Oona McGee
Sep 13, 2026
Can we demolish a four-kilo purin made with 32 eggs?
- Japan
- (big eats • cafe • cafes • desserts • Harajuku • huge • huge food • must try • Omotesando • pudding • purin • SNJO • Sweet Check • sweets • Tokyo)
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First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
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Evangelion announces collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe
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Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia- Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
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Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
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Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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