Okinawa

Viral Japanese cheesecake from Osaka has a lesser known rival called Aunt Wanda

Move aside, Uncle Rikuro – Aunt Wanda is here to steal your fluffy souffle crown, without the raisins.

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Potama serves up epic rice balls like no other, and there’s only one store in Tokyo

Soul food from a tropical island, made fresh in the capital. 

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Poop is in full bloom at the Unko Museums for cherry blossom season

Spring is in the air.

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New Family Mart cinema opens inside Japanese airport

Japan’s first permanent cinema in an airport is called the Family Mart Lovers Theatre…but why?

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Japan has been tossing message-bearing coconuts into the ocean since the 1980s

Only a tiny fraction of them ever get found, but that’s just part of the charm.

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Let’s visit a German castle… in Okinawa!

We go where washi dare.

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New fish discovered and named “Vanderhorstia supersaiyan” for obvious reasons

Fish possibly caught right after its best friend Krilin was killed.

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Meet the eerie police statues of Miyakojima in Okinawa Prefecture

Goth cops!

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Cycling through culture and coastlines in northern Okinawa

A journey into Okinawa’s traditions in Yanbaru.

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Tokyo’s hidden mall serves up Japan’s best regional ice creams

The only thing better than a nationwide ice cream tour is doing it without leaving the city.

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Unko Museum to open in Okinawa with some exclusive crap

This is a good movement.

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Brand-new theme park in Japan charges foreign tourists 25 percent more than locals for tickets

Welcome, to two-tier pricing park!

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Get a taste of paradise at Japan’s top 8 ocean view cafes

Surprisingly, only two of them are in Okinawa.

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Musings on Okinawa’s canned enthusiasm for all things Spam

Net users reflect on the island prefecture’s status as a top world consumer of Spam.

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Eating venomous snake in Japan

Habu is both feared and revered, but does it taste like chicken?

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Five Okinawan foods that have changed our reporter’s view on local cuisine forever

Sometimes it’s not that the food isn’t delicious, it’s just you don’t have enough life experience to enjoy it yet.

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The perks of drinking root beer at A&W in Japan

American diner chain in Okinawa has a special offer that a lot of Japanese locals don’t know about.

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Four breathtaking beer gardens to visit before summer ends in Japan (or put on next year’s list)

Spanning from the north of the country to the south, these might be four of the best places in all of Japan to enjoy a cold one.

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Making minudaru, Okinawa’s super simple jet-black pork【SoraKitchen】

Its mysterious outer coating is not burned but simply incorporates one special ingredient.

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Garlic-stuffed whole chickens sold at vending machine in Okinawa’s Naha Airport

Muy bueno.

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