Akihabara
Unusual vending machine in Akihabara sells drinks you won’t find anywhere else in Tokyo
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Oona McGee
May 6, 2025 - Tweet
- Japan
- (Akihabara • coffee • COK • drinks • Ehime • Japanese vending machines • juice • new • Pom Juice • SNJO • taste test • vending machine • vending machines)
Best breakfast in Akihabara? Might be the breakfast buffet at this “family restaurant”
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Casey Baseel
May 4, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • all-you-can-eat • breakfast • buffet • COK • family restaurants • food • hotels • Jonathan's • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Tokyo shrine hosts event for anime fans ready to let go and recycle character keychains, standees
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Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2025
- Japan
- (acrylic • acrylic resin • Akihabara • anime • eco-friendly • ecology • Kanda • Kanda Myojin • kanda shrine • keychains • manga • otaku • recycling • shrines)
Foreigner-friendly maid cafe adds translation panels to Akihabara location
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Casey Baseel
Feb 21, 2025
Technology hopes to help visitors from overseas more thoroughly enjoy a unique aspect of Akiba culture.
- Japan
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- Japan
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Will we roll in the riches or the dirt with Mulan Akiba’s 2025 capsule toy lucky bag?
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Krista Rogers
Jan 7, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • capsule toys • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • gacha • gacha gacha • gachapon • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Mulan • SNJO • Tokyo)
Animate Akihabara releases a lucky bag for the first time in years, and it’s amazing
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Oona McGee
Jan 4, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Animate • anime • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • love live • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • manga • new year • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • SNJO)
Akihabara curry restaurant declaring bankruptcy after 50 years in Tokyo’s otaku neighborhood
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Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • curry • curry rice • food • restaurants)
Nakano Broadway sells a fukubukuro lucky bag for foreigners, but is it a good deal or a scam?
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SoraNews24
Dec 21, 2024
We get an expert opinion on the worth of the anime and voclaoid figures in the Kawaii Lucky Bag.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Hatsune Miku • Kawaii • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • mange • Nakano • Nakano Broadway • Oshi no Ko • overlord • SNJO • Tokyo)
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- (Akihabara • COK • crazy • food • Jiro ramen • Jiro-kei • Jiro-style • karaoke • Noodles • Paro Ramen • Pasela • ramen • Ramen Paro • Ramn Jiro • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Line of foreign tourists leads us to Akihabara’s meatiest fatty ramen【Taste test】
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Casey Baseel
Oct 19, 2024
For-foreigners stamp rally begins in Akihabara, gives prizes for walking the otaku neighborhood
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Casey Baseel
Jul 19, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • COK • foreigners in Japan • otaku • stamp rallies • stamp rally • tourism • travel • video games)
Gigantic eight-floor anime figure shop skyscraper opening in Tokyo’s Akihabara this month
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Casey Baseel
Jul 12, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • awesome • Figure Tower • figures • otaku • Tokyo • video games)
Star Kebab’s kebab sushi roll in Akihabara isn’t on the menu anymore but don’t let that stop you
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Krista Rogers
Jun 21, 2024
When a restaurant stops selling your favorite menu item, sometimes you have to roll matters into your own hands.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • COK • Ikuna Kamezawa • kebab • kebab norimaki • SNJO • Star Kebab • Tokyo)
Low price, free booze and curry, late check-out, and great location — Akihabara capsule hotel has it all
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Casey Baseel
Jun 16, 2024
Anshin Oyado is just a two-minute walk from Akihabara Station and has everything we need to get comfortable.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • all you can drink • Anshin Oyado • capsule hotels • COK • curry • curry rice • hotels • Pasela Resorts • SNJO • Tokyo travel • tourism • travel)
Restaurant offers free noodle refills, with a quick lesson in Japanese so you can order like a local.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • COK • food • Japanese • Japanese food • Japanese language • Japanese restaurants • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • review • SNJO • Tokyo • tonkotsu ramen • tourists)
- Japan
- (Akihabara • chicken • COK • food • fried chicken • Kanda • karaage • Pokemon • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)
Foreign shoppers in Akihabara tip us off to an awesome souvenir idea: DIY Paper Theater kit【Pics】
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Casey Baseel
May 8, 2024
A cool, unique, and easy-to-pack gift for fans of Japanese pop culture (including yourself).
Is the absolute closest conveyor belt sushi to Akihabara Station any good? Let’s find out!
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SoraNews24
May 7, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • best conveyor belt sushi • COK • food • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi)
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