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Japan’s personal loneliness-busting robots have their own cafe, so naturally, we ran right over.
Fushimi Inari-taisha did all sorts of things to keep visitors safe this New Year’s, and one may be steeped in the local culture’s velvety harshness.
Maybe it’s best to just walk away…
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FUK COFFEE?!? Japanese cafe has a perfectly innocent reason for its startling-looking name
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A visit to the best UFO catcher arcade in the universe!
Randomly running into a great sushi lunch like this is one of the best things about eating in Tokyo
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