Oona McGee
Half-Japanese Oona McGee hails from Sydney, Australia, where she worked as a journalist and copywriter before making the move to Japan over a decade ago. Now she spends her days exploring the streets of Tokyo with her laptop and camera, always in search of new cafes, restaurants, events and stories to share with our readers. As an experienced food and travel reporter, Oona has travelled extensively through all 47 prefectures of Japan, and is constantly researching new destinations and drawing up itineraries for her next adventure.
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Coffeehouse chain celebrates its 25th anniversary with an epic homage to local ingredients.
A unique store filled with curries from around the country, featuring unusual local ingredients.
A centuries-old sweet so sacred it’s still used as an offering at one of the country’s holiest shrines.
Pressured to review outdated prohibitions, an entire prefecture says goodbye to “relics of the past”.
In all its 35 years of existence, we’ve never seen this classic Nintendo Famicom/NES game being played quite like this.
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