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Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads

Casey Baseel
Mar 25, 2026
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Video advertising seems contradictory to the digital signage’s originally intended purpose.

Japan
(clever • COK • crazy • Osaka • Public restrooms • public toilets • restrooms • techonolgy • Toilets • Umeda • Umeda Station • weird)

Final Fantasy IX gets its own pop-up store in Osaka and Tokyo for 25th anniversary

Master Blaster
Jun 19, 2025

Final Fantasies grow up so fast, don’t they?

Japan
(Daimaru • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy IX • Marunouchi • Osaka • pop-up stores • role-playing games • shopping • Tokyo • Umeda • video games)

Myaku-Myaku takes over the new 2025 Expo store in JR Osaka Station

Master Blaster
Apr 11, 2025

If you ever thought, “I would buy this, if only it were Myaku-Myaku,” then this store is for you!

Japan
(2025 Expo • 2025 Osaka World Expo • Coupy Pencil • Mascots • Myaku-Myaku • Osaka • Osaka Station • pine ame • Umeda • Uni-ball)

Marvel Culinary Universe coming to pop-up cafe in Osaka this September

Master Blaster
Sep 2, 2021

Light lunch, assemble!

Japan
(Black Widow • Captain America • comic books • Iron Man • Marvel • Osaka • Paprikash • pop-up cafes • Spider-Man • Superheroes • Thor • Umeda)

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…is flying away in a hot-air balloon

Master Blaster
Nov 14, 2020

Osaka’s winter illumination goes to new heights.

Japan
(art • Christmas • Christmas tree • Grand Front • hot air balloon • Osaka • Osaka Station • Umeda)

Bones of over 1,500 people found at Osaka Station area construction site

Casey Baseel
Aug 14, 2020

Before the area was known as Umekita, it was known as Umeda Grave.

Japan
(crazy • history • Osaka • Osaka Station • scary • Umeda)

Over 2,000 people march in support of Black Lives Matter in Osaka

Master Blaster
Jun 8, 2020

Turnout to two-hour march through downtown blew away expectations.

Japan
(Black Lives Matter • demonstration • discrimination • event • George Floyd • Kansai • march • Osaka • protest • Umeda)

Osaka store catering to menstrual goods has staff wear badges saying if they’re on their period

SoraNews24
Nov 23, 2019

The ultimate store for feminine needs. Period.

Japan
(Daimaru Department Store • department store • menstruation • Osaka • periods • Umeda • Women in Japan)

Taco Bell Osaka branches now selling okonomiyaki burritos, promise delicious fusion flavor

Dale Roll
Feb 6, 2019

A tortilla stuffed with all the tasty trappings of okonomiyaki? Sign us up!

Japan
(burritos • Dotonbori • fusion food • Mexican food • okonomiyaki • Osaka • Taco Bell • tasty • Umeda)

Colorful custom Cup Noodles sold at Momofuku Noodle in Osaka with 2,145 different varieties

Master Blaster
Oct 5, 2018

Join us as we sample Cup Noodles’ new custom-made and vegetable-themed soup shop.

Japan
(Cup Noodle • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Momofuku Noodle • Osaka • Umeda • vegetables)

Powerful typhoon turns downtown Osaka into a ghost town【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2018

As Typhoon Jebi approaches the downtown area, everyone else wants to get out of it.

Japan
(ghost town • Osaka • rain • storm • typhoon • Umeda • weather)

Take on Godzilla yourself in virtual reality at new attractions in Osaka and Tokyo

Master Blaster
Jul 21, 2018

New VR Zone attraction lets you take on Godzilla in an attack chopper… Good luck with that.

Japan
(Godzilla • kaiju • Osaka • Shin Godzilla • Tokyo • Umeda • video • video games • virtual reality • VR • VR Zone)

Upcoming escape game in Osaka pits players against Whity with only a 1% chance of success

Master Blaster
Jan 25, 2018

Whity wants you dead and you must escape Osaka’s most complex shopping area after-hours to survive.

Japan
(Escape from White City Dungeon • escape game • Osaka • Umeda • Whity)

Prepare for a “poopoopoo” picnic with Nintendo’s Kirby at Kiddyland this month

Mike
Aug 14, 2015

It’s hard to believe that our beloved, voracious powderpuff Kirby is over 20 years old now! “Born” in 1992 on the Nintendo Game Boy, the adorable little guy is actually a fully grown adult now, possibly with a driver’s license and, like, maybe even a family we don’t know about. We picture him holding down a boring office job somewhere in Tokyo, willing himself not to snap at his irritating boss and hoover him up (thus gaining his incredible powers of bureaucracy and micromanagement).

But, even though everybody’s favorite non-Jigglypuff pink ball creature is all grown up now, that doesn’t stop him from enjoying a good picnic!

A Poopoopoo picnic, to be exact.

Japan
(events • Harajuku • Kiddyland • Kirby • nintendo • toys • Umeda)

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