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Burgers soaked in a plate of hot cheese served at American Diner Andra in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Jun 20, 2023
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It is easy being cheesy.

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• (American Diner Andra • Cheese ni In-shita Hamburger • cheeseburgers • food • hamburgers • restaurants • smash burgers • Tokyo • Ueno)

This gigantic panda bento from Tokyo’s Kitchen Dive is deviously generous (and freaky-looking)

• Katie Pask
  Apr 7, 2022

Panda lunch box from shop famed for their overwhelming generosity — too good to be true, or just too good?

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• (animals • bento • boxed lunch • COK • crazy • cute • food • Kawaii • Kitchen DIVE • lunch box • panda • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Ueno • weird)

What’s it like to eat an enormous panda onigiri rice ball that weighs over two pounds?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2022

This cute animal comes with four different surprise fillings.

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• (animals • bento • COK • cute • food • Kawaii • Kitchen DIVE • new • onigiri • pandas • rice balls • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Ueno • weird)

Finally! First-ever Pokémon manhole covers installed in downtown Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 15, 2021

Pokéfuta are waiting for fans outside two of Japan’s best museums.

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• (anime • cool • cute • manhole covers • Pikachu • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Ueno • Ueno Park • video games)

Tokyo police stopped us for random questioning, so we asked them to recommend a good restaurant

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 25, 2021

They wanted to know what we were doing in Ueno. We wanted to know where to eat lunch.

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• (COK • food • Menya Musashi • Mr. Sato • Noodles • police • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • Ueno)

Taste-testing Tokyo’s biggest, best edible bug vending machine【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 2, 2020

We take a chance with a random selection from a machine that sells tarantulas and dung beetles for you to eat.

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• (bugs • COK • crazy • food • gross • scary • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • Ueno • vending machines)

Japan Ninja Council produces first-ever official hotel room in Tokyo’s Ueno

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2020

Spacious eight-person room makes a perfect base for shinobi missions in Tokyo, but passing up sushi counter room is a hard choice.

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• (cool • hotels • Japan Ninja Council • Ninja • sushi • Tokyo • travel • Ueno)

Sato Style: Our ace reporter gets a fashion makeover at Tokyo’s most colorful menswear shop【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2018

SoraNews24’s Mr. Sato is no ordinary guy, and so no ordinary clothes will do.

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• (Ameya Yokocho • Ameyoko • COK • cool • fashion • funny.crazy • Mr. Sato • SNOJ • Tokyp • Ueno)

Ridiculous crowds show up at Tokyo’s most popular zoo as baby panda makes her public debut【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 17, 2018

If you want to see Ueno Zoo’s adorable infant panda, you’ll absolutely want to get there before the gates open.

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• (animals • COK • crazy • cute • pandas • SNOJ • Tokyo • Ueno • ueno zoo • zoos)

Legendary crescent moon katana, one of Japan’s Five Swords Under Heaven, now on display in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 21, 2017

One of Japan’s most beautiful and important katana is proving popular with history buffs and young ladies alike.

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• (beautiful • cool • culture • history • Katana • museums • swords • Tokyo • Tokyo National Museum • Touken Ranbu • Ueno)

Bear ramen appears in Tokyo, causes almost as much shock as bears walking around the city would

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2016

Uses bear meat sourced from Kyoto and Aomori, said to have more refined taste than foreign varieties.

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• (bears • crazy • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Tokyo • Ueno • weird)

Platform 13½ set to open at Ueno Station in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2016

Like Hogwart’s Express, a new Japanese train is now getting its very own mysterious in-between platform.

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• (cool • Harry Potter • stations • Tokyo • train stations • trains • Ueno • wow)

Ueno Park’s panda bread is just as warm, fluffy and cute as the pandas themselves 【Photos】

• Scott Wilson
  Oct 14, 2016

If you’ve ever wanted to gobble up an adorable panda, now’s your chance!

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• (bread • cute • food • pandas • Ueno • Ueno Park • ueno zoo)

Tokyo’s most popular park partially bans Pokémon GO in response to inconsiderate gamers

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 20, 2016

Move comes after discovery of rare Pokémon near temple grounds.

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• (Pokemon • Pokémon GO • temples • Tokyo • Ueno • Ueno Park • video games)

Mini stampedes in Tokyo’s Ueno Park as it becomes a nest for rare Pokémon GO character【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 11, 2016

Fans find it hard to control their excitement when the dragon-type Pokémon pops up.

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• (crazy • funny • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Tokyo • Ueno • Ueno Park • video)

Bears over flowers: The RocketNews24 giant bear takes an Ueno Park swan boat for a spin

• Evie Nyan
  Apr 15, 2016

“I’m the king of the world, on a boat like Leo/If you’re on the shore, then you’re sho’ not me-oh.” – Sangelica

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• (bear • boat • boating • sangelica • Tokyo • Ueno)

Brighten your day at the Magical Art Museum in Ueno 【Photos】

• Rachel Tackett
  Sep 11, 2013

From now until October 6 at the Ueno Royal Museum, a very special art exhibit is on display called Trick of the Light『Magical Art Museum』～Art in Wonderland. This unique collection of modern art encourages participation from visitors, rather than mere observation, creating an individualized artistic experience for every person taking part.

The magical exhibit houses 19 installation art pieces put together by 11 very talented artists. Felix Sayaka, talented reporter for our Japanese sister site, Pouch, visited the museum to give us all an illuminated introduction to four of the exhibition’s stellar works.

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• (art • art museum • cool • magic • Ueno)

Panda Love: Ueno Zoo Invites Animal Lovers to Watch Its Rare Bears Get It On

• Philip Kendall
  Mar 13, 2013

In a somewhat unusual move yesterday, Japan’s Ueno Zoo released a video on its official website of its two pandas, Shin Shin and Ri Ri, copulating in their enclosure.

Rest assured that neither smooth jazz nor scented candles were involved in the incident and that this article is perfectly safe to be read at work.

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• (cool • mating • panda • Ueno)

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