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Pokémon Sleep camping suite and guestrooms coming to Tokyo Hyatt along with giant Snorlax burgers

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 24, 2024
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Pokémon plushies and nearly one-pound burgers promise a very good night’s sleep.

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• Japan
• (anime • burgers • COK • food • Grand Hyatt Tokyo • hotels • Hyatt • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Sleep • Snorlax • sweets • tourism • travel • video games)

Tokyo Tsukiji fish market site to be redeveloped with 50,000-seat stadium, hotel, shopping center

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 24, 2024

Former wholesale fish market’s plot has been idle since 2018.

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• Japan
• (hotels • stadium • sushi • tourism • travel • Tsukiji • Tsukiji fish market • Tsukiji wholesale market)

Beautiful Red and Blue Star luxury trains set to be Japan’s new Hokkaido travel stars

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 24, 2024

Two ways to really enjoy the ride in Japan’s biggest prefecture.

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• Japan
• (Furano • Hokkaido • JR Hokkaido • Kushiro • luxury trains • luxury travel • tourism • trains • travel)

Mt. Koya planning to instate visitor’s tax to cope with huge tourist numbers

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 23, 2024

Pilgrimage town of less than 3,000 residents received almost 1.4 million tourists last year.

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• Japan
• (COK • hiking • Koya • Koyasan • Mt. Koya • outdoors • overtourism • temples • tourism • travel • Wakayama Prefecture)

Sakura tree falls on man at Sannenzaka near Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto 【Breaking News】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 23, 2024

Busy tourist areas cordoned off following sudden incident.

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• Japan
• (breaking news • cherry blossom tree • Kiyomizudera • Kyoto • news • sakura • Sannenzaka • tourism • travel)

New private rooms on Tokaido Shinkansen change the way we travel from Tokyo to Kyoto

• Oona McGee
  Apr 22, 2024

The most premium way to travel on a Japanese bullet train.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • Japanese trains • JR • JR passes • shinkansen • Tokaido • Tokaido Shinkansen • tourism • train passes • trains • travel)

Beautiful Sailor Moon manhole cover coasters being given out for free by Tokyo tourist center

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 18, 2024

Sailor Moon’s real-world home neighborhood wants to help visiting fans feel extra welcome.

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• Japan
• (anime • coaters • COK • cool • manga • manhole covers • Minato Ward • Minato Ward Tourism Information Center • Sailor Moon • SNO • tourism • travel)

More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 17, 2024

A pair of factors combine with pent-up post-pandemic Japan travel desire to break the one-month record.

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• Japan
• (COK • foreigners in Japan • Japan travel • tourism • travel)

Is the new Shinkansen Train Desk ticket worth it?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 16, 2024

We try a cheaper alternative to Japan’s premium Green Car carriages.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • bullet trains • East Japan Railway • Hokuriku • Hokuriku Shinkansen • Ishikawa • Japanese trains • JR • JR East • JR passes • Kanazawa • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • Train Desk • train passes • train travel • trains • travel)

Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!

• Shannon
  Apr 15, 2024

We commemorate the new Hokuriku Shinkansen route with a truly local meal.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Fukui • fukui prefecture • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Hey Taxi Driver • Hokuriku Shinkansen • Japanese taxi driver • katsudon • pork cutlet • restaurants • sauce katsu • sauce katsudon • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • travel • Tsuruga)

We go looking for the free kaoyu hot spring facebath of onsen town Kusatsu【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 14, 2024

Lots of Japanese hot spring towns have footbaths, but how does a facebath work?

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • Gunma • hot springs • Kusatsu • onsen • SNJO • tourism • travel • weird)

Nemophila season off to an early, and beautiful, start as baby blue flowers bloom in Maishima

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 10, 2024

Seaside park in Osaka is also one of Japan’s best places to see the sunset.

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• Japan
• (baby blue eyes • beautiful • flowers • Maishima Seaside Park • Nemophila • Osaka • outdoors • parks • tourism • travel)

Beautiful park, gigantic wholesale market, and smooth-as-silk coffee on Omori bus loop【Tokyo Loop Buses】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 7, 2024

Mr. Sato gets off the beaten path and finds a new part of Tokyo to fall in love with.

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• Japan
• (buses • cafes • COK • cool • Haneda Airport • Mr. Sato • omori • parks • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo Loop Buses • tourism • travel)

Not so fast! Japan’s super-high-speed maglev Shinkansen line opening has been officially delayed

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 2, 2024

Chuo Shinkansen will take you from Tokyo to Nagoya in just 40 minutes…but no one is sure when.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • Central Japan Railway Company • Chuo Shinkansen • JR Tokai • linear motor car • maglev • tourism • trains • transportation • travel)

Century-old Hiroshima brewery in one of Japan’s three great sake-brewing spots offers tours in English

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 1, 2024

Stepping into sake history in Saijo.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • COK • culture • drinks • Hiroshima • history • nihonshu • Saijo Tsuru • sake • SNJO • tourism • travel)

What are the top 10 most popular shrines among international tourists? Study reveals…

• Dale Roll
  Mar 27, 2024

…that the top shrine is probably the one you think it is!

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• Japan
• (atsuta shrine • Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine • Fushimi Inari Shrine • Itsukushima • Japan travel • kanda shrine • Meiji Jingu • Nambayasaka Shrine • ranking • shinto shrines • shrines • sightseeing • tourism • travel)

New book teaches Japanese people English to help out foreign travelers

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2024

Publisher wants to help make it easier to help.

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• Japan
• (foreigners in Japan • language • linguistics • society • Teaching English in Japan • tourism • travel)

Complaints against foreign go-kart drivers increase in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 24, 2024

Police want to crack down on traffic incidents caused by visitors on go-karts.

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• Japan
• (driving • Driving in Japan • foreigners • foreigners in Japan • go-kart • go-karting • go-karts • news • police • Tokyo • tourism • tourists • travel)

Kyoto creates new for-tourist buses to address overtourism with higher prices, faster rides

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2024

A win-win idea that’s long overdue.

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• Japan
• (buses • Kiyomizu Temple • Kyoto • overtourism • tourism • travel)

Kyoto bans tourists from geisha alleys in Gion, with fines for those who don’t follow rules

• Oona McGee
  Mar 20, 2024

Historic area wants foreign visitors to know it’s not a theme park.

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• Japan
• (etiquette • geisha • Gion • Kyoto • Kyoto rules • maiko • news • overtourism • tourism • travel)

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