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Channel your favourite character on the Central Perk couch with special menu items and Japan-exclusive goods.
SoraNews24’s resident soba expert finds out what happens when an American coffeehouse whips up some Japanese buckwheat noodles in Hong Kong.
Yes, you can get beef bowls, but there’re also desserts, unlimited coffee refills, and everything mobile workers and students need.
Starbucks aside, you can really get a feel for the Taisho era in this newly reopened landmark.
Japan has already figured out cold noodles and cold coffee taste great in the midsummer heat, so why not combine the two?
Before Starbucks existed in Japan, there were kissaten coffeehouses. Now there’s the Starbucks kissaten.
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Ranma 1/2 Cafe opening in three Japanese cities, features food with transformable flavors
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Edo-period ukiyoe woodblock prints of animals and mythical beasts now available for free online
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