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Mysterious mountain village is home to Christ’s grave and an ancient pyramid

• Oona McGee
  Nov 13, 2022
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With local customs linked to Judea, this is a very unusual Japanese community.

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• Japan
• (Aomori • art • Christ Park • Christ's tomb • COK • culture • Japanese countryside • mystery • nature • Oishigami Pyramid • pyramids • SNJO • tourist sites • tradition • travel • unusual • village • weird)

Flush your prayers down the toilet at this unique Japanese temple

• Oona McGee
  Sep 10, 2022

A new way to pray at the porcelain altar.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • buddhist • COK • culture • Gunma • Japanese squat toilets • Japanese toilets • religion • SNJO • squat toilets • Toilets • tradition • unusual • weird)

Holy noodles! Japanese restaurant serves up some very unusual udon

• Oona McGee
  Aug 25, 2022

Food for thought, in more ways than one.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • buddhist • COK • culture • food • Gunma • Heart Sutra • Japanese food • Noodles • religion • SNJO • sutras • taste test • tradition • udon • unusual • weird)

Visit the birthplace of the Japanese daruma in Gunma Prefecture

• Oona McGee
  Aug 14, 2022

Home to some unusual rotund inhabitants.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • COK • culture • daruma • Darumaji • gunma prefecture • religion • Shorinzan Darumaji Temple • SNJO • Takasaki • temples • tradition • travel)

A first-time visit to Kyoto’s Gion Festival becomes a night to remember

• Oona McGee
  Jul 25, 2022

There’s more to these giant Yamahoko floats than first meets the eye. 

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• Japan
• (chimaki • COK • culture • Egawa Tasuku • festivals • floats • Gion • Gion Festival • Gion Matsuri • Kyoto • SNJO • sweets • tradition • travel)

We stay in a converted Kyoto townhouse filled with traditional charm and overwhelming hospitality

• Katie Pask
  Mar 18, 2022

We spend a couple of nights soaking in some wa.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • Japanese accommodation • kyomachiya • Kyoto • machiya • ochagashi • ryokan • ryokan tori • tea • tea ceremony • tradition • travel • Udonko • wa)

In search of Japan’s biggest tanuki, we stumble across something equally big

• Oona McGee
  Mar 3, 2022

Japanese raccoon dogs are known for their large…ahem, appendages. But which one is the largest of them all?

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• Japan
• (animals • ceramics • COK • cool • culture • folklore • Japanese folklore • pottery • raccoon dogs • Shiga • Shigaraki • Shigaraki ware • Shigarakiyaki • SNJO • Tanuki • tourism • tourist sites • tradition • trains • travel • unusual • weird)

Beautiful Starbucks in Kyoto blends into its traditional landscape in more ways than one

• Oona McGee
  Feb 2, 2022

Beverages taste better here, when you can drink in Japanese scenery like this.

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• Japan
• (architecture • beautiful • cafes • COK • cool • drinks • history • japanese architecture • Kyoto • machiya • Ninenzaka • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • tradition • traditional • travel)

Sumo salt shaker steals the show in new range of Japanese wrestler goods

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

Add ceremonial salt to your fries, fight in the ring on a pouch, and watch a wrestler grow in your water glass. 

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• Japan
• (buy • cool • culture • Felissimo • funny • goods • shopping • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • sumo wrestling • tradition • traditional sports • You + More)

How much money should you give children for New Year’s otoshidama? Adults weigh in

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 31, 2021

Grown-ups dish on the appropriate amounts of New Year’s money to gift depending on the age of a child.

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• Japan
• (All About • children • gift • money • New Year's • otoshidama • survey • tradition)

Shinjuku Station’s new mascot character gets lost at the station, in more ways than one

• Oona McGee
  Oct 5, 2021

Cute character flies under the radar, but there’s a special prize for those who can hunt it down!

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • culture • folklore • goshuin • heartwarming • Japanese folklore • Japanese train stations • Kanagawa • SNJO • souvenirs • tradition • train stations • trains • unusual • Urashima Taro)

There’s a secret free souvenir hiding inside this Japanese train station

• Oona McGee
  Sep 23, 2021

A limited-time memento that pays homage to a local folklore legend.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • culture • folklore • goshuin • heartwarming • Japanese folklore • Japanese train stations • Kanagawa • SNJO • souvenirs • tradition • train stations • trains • unusual • Urashima Taro)

Muji adds Japanese haori samurai coats to their casual wear collection

• Oona McGee
  Sep 17, 2021

Perfect for modern-day warriors.

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• Japan
• (clothes • fashion • haori • kimono • muji • Mujirushi • Mujirushi Ryohin • samurai • tradition • traditional Japanese clothing)

China’s “Little Kyoto” shut down by government after complaints of Japanese culture “invasion”

• Oona McGee
  Sep 6, 2021

The future of the newly opened Japan-themed complex now remains unclear. 

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• China, Japan
• (architecture • buildings • China • culture • Kyoto • shopping • tourism • tourist sites • tradition • travel)

346-year-old sweets store closes at Sensoji temple in Asakusa

• Oona McGee
  Aug 14, 2021

Family pulls the final shutter down on one of the oldest Japanese sweets stores in the country.

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• Japan
• (age manju • Asakusa • business • culture • history • Japanese sweets • Sensoji • shops • stores • sweets • temples • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • tradition • traditional Japan)

Traditional Japanese ceramics given new life in AR, delivered straight to your web browser for free

• Master Blaster
  Jul 15, 2021

Add a touch of class to your home or video game.

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• Japan
• (3-D modeling • 3D modelling • AR • art • ceramics • cool • culture • Fukuoka • Hasami-yaki • Nagasaki • Steampunk Digital • technology • tradition • Wankoubou)

What it’s like to get a haircut at Japan’s oldest barber shop

• Oona McGee
  Jun 4, 2021

Styling tips from fifth-generation owner of a business that began before samurai were allowed to cut their top-knots.

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• Japan
• (barber • barber shop • COK • hair • haircuts • hairstyles • history • Masanuki Sunakoma • personal grooming • retro • review • SNJO • tradition)

High school students rapidly losing interest in sumo teams because too “painful,” “scary,” and “naked”

• Master Blaster
  May 20, 2021

Those three words sound like a good time to me, but I guess I’m the weird one…

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • high school sports • school • sports • Sumo • tradition)

Sacred forbidden forest at a Japanese shrine has been off-limits to visitors for centuries

• Oona McGee
  Apr 24, 2021

We get to enter a holy land that’s been protected since ancient times, and it reminds us of the world of Princess Mononoke.

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• Japan
• (culture • curse • Cursed Japan • forbidden • haunted Japan • history • Ishikawa Prefecture • Keta Grand Shrine • nature • Noto Peninsula • religion • Seiji Nakazawa • shrines • SNJO • tradition • trees)

Goodbye katanuki? Japanese festival game may go extinct thanks to the pandemic

• Dale Roll
  Feb 10, 2021

The only makers of katanuki pieces may have to close their doors forever if the pandemic continues much longer.

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• Japan
• (business • coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • festival games • festivals • food • Japanese culture • katanuki • Matsuri • pandemic • tradition)

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