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Mr. Sato gets 1,000 yen in food and drink from two stores for a “double senbero”【Japan’s Best Home Senbero】
This non-sweet matcha treat is one of our new favorite Kyoto snack souvenirs【Taste test】
We go on our own hunt for “the biggest mountain” to climb in the style of Tokyo Swindlers
We try to buy a retro Japanese coin-operated arcade machine at this secondhand shop near Tokyo
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