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Japanese monaka ice cream looks very different in Hokkaido

Oona McGee
Oct 25, 2022
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Does the corniest ice cream on the market really capture the taste of the region?

Japan
(COK • corn • desserts • Hokkaido • ice creams • local specialties • Masanuki Sunakoma • monaka • review • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test • unusual • weird)

Castella cake ice cream debuts in Japan, and it’s one of the strangest things we’ve ever tasted

Oona McGee
Oct 13, 2022

One of Japan’s most famous cakes sashays into the freezer section and messes with our minds.

Japan
(Akagi Nyugyo • Akaginyugyo • cake • castella • COK • desserts • ice creams • Japanese cakes • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • unusual • weird)

Golden Japanese toilet appears at “multi-millionaire” izakaya in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Oct 12, 2022

Everything in this restaurant is covered in gold.

Japan
(COK • culture • food • gold • golden • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Japanese toilets • restaurants • SNJO • Toilets • Tokyo • unusual • weird)

Japanese vending machine mecca: Around 100 rare retro machines await you at this unusual location

Oona McGee
Oct 5, 2022

Step back in time with old-school vending machines that dispense unique products in retro packaging.

Japan
(Bon curry • burgers • cool • curry • food • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • Noodles • retort curry • retro • retro technology • soba • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • udon • unusual • vending machines • 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.

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.

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

Weiner Onigiri: Japanese convenience store rice ball has a surprise in store for Mr Sato

Oona McGee
Jul 4, 2022

Celebration sausage opens our mouth to a new way of eating.

Japan
(COK • combini • convenience store • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lawson Store 100 • Mr. Sato • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test • unusual • Weiner • weird)

Japan’s only blue old-school post box: Where is it and why is it there?

Oona McGee
Jun 23, 2022

A humble mailbox with a roundabout connection to ’90s J-Pop idol group Mi-Ke.

Japan
(Chiba • COK • J-Pop • Japan Post • mail box • mailboxes • Mi-ke • post box • SNJO • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • unique • unusual • weird)

Famima Laundry: Japanese convenience store adds laundromat to store in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Jun 20, 2022

Welcome to the Famima laundromat!

Japan
(coin laundry • COK • combini • convenience store • Family mart • Famima Laundry • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • laundromats • SNJO • Tokyo • unusual • weird)

Travel off the beaten path in Japan, to the point where three prefectures meet

Oona McGee
Jun 16, 2022

Visit this unusual site and you can say you’ve been to three prefectures in a day.

Japan
(Boundary of Three Prefectures • COK • Masanuki Sunakoma • michi no eki • off the beaten path • off the beaten track • Saitama • SNJO • tourism • tourist site • tourist sites • travel • unusual)

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?

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)

We try roasted sweet potatoes from a Japanese vending machine

Oona McGee
Dec 17, 2021

This unusual machine sells hot potatoes and cold potatoes, but are they any good?

Japan
(COK • food • Japanese vending machines • potatoes • SNJO • Sogo • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test • unusual • vending machines • weird • yaki imo)

Tokyo Station Waterscape Toilet looks more like an aquarium than a bathroom

Oona McGee
Oct 6, 2021

Latest technology to “provide healing and surprise”.

Japan
(COK • cool • Japanese toilets • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • public toilets • SNJO • stations • Toilets • Tokyo Station • train stations • trains • unusual • water)

We try clams from a Japanese vending machine and live to tell the tale

Oona McGee
Oct 5, 2021

Mega clams turn out to be mega, in more ways than one.

Japan
(clams • COK • cooking • cool • crazy • food • Japanese vending machines • seafood • shellfish • SNJO • unusual • vending machines • weird)

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!

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

Retro Japanese train is our new favourite office space

Oona McGee
Sep 28, 2021

Like teleworking with Sen and No Face from Spirited Away.

Japan
(COK • cool • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Office Space • SNJO • teleworking • train stations • trains • unusual)

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.

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

Tokyo farewells Japan’s only double-decker Shinkansen with a special escalator at the station

Oona McGee
Sep 13, 2021

An escalator ride like no other.

Japan
(bullet trains • COK • cool • escalators • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Joetsu Shinkansen • shinkansen • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo Station • train stations • trains • unusual)

Tokyo station becomes first in the city to install an inclined elevator

Oona McGee
Aug 25, 2021

All part of Japan’s dedication to “people friendly movement” in public spaces.

Japan
(accessibility • barrier free • COK • cool • elevators • Japanese train stations • SNJO • stairs • Tokyo • train stations • unusual • wheelchair access)

Japanese firework catapults a teddy bear into the sky

Oona McGee
Aug 18, 2021

Proof that people in Japan really are spoilt with crazy, unusual goods.

Japan
(bears • COK • cute • fireworks • fun at home • GIF • review • SNJO • summer • teddy bear • toy firework • toys • unusual • wtf)

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