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All-you-can-drink Starbucks and amazing views part of Tokyo’s new 170 meter-high sky lounge

Sky Plaza Ibasho opens in Shinjuku.

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The oldest tunnel in Japan is believed to be haunted, and strange things happen when we go there

Spirits from the past live on at this abandoned site in the mountains. 

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McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods

Keep them in the kitchen or throw them in a bag–these toys also serve as functionally cute souvenirs to bring home.

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Our reporter takes her 71-year-old mother to a visual kei concert for the first time

Thanks to the experience and a new oshi, 25 years of mother-daughter conflict began to evaporate in seconds.

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We tried Japan’s Strawberry Daifuku? liqueur, one of three dessert-themed liqueurs

Does this sweet dessert taste as good in liquid form as solid?

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Randomly running into a great sushi lunch like this is one of the best things about eating in Tokyo

Our always-early reporter finds a great meal almost without even trying in the downtown Kanda neighborhood.

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Is the new Shinkansen Train Desk ticket worth it?

We try a cheaper alternative to Japan’s premium Green Car carriages.

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Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!

We commemorate the new Hokuriku Shinkansen route with a truly local meal.

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We go looking for the free kaoyu hot spring facebath of onsen town Kusatsu【Photos】

Lots of Japanese hot spring towns have footbaths, but how does a facebath work?

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How to make an epic pizza at a Japanese family restaurant

Eating on the cheap doesn’t have to be boring.

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Hamburg and Hamburg Shibuya: A Japanese restaurant you need to put on your Tokyo itinerary

New restaurant becomes a hit on social media, and for good reason. 

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Coordinating a whole outfit with nothing but clothes from Japanese convenience store Family Mart

How far has combining fashion come since our last investigation?

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Japanese convenience store packs a whole bento into an onigiri rice ball

Bento ingredients taste different when they’re eaten with one hand.

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Hanton rice — a delicious regional food even most Japanese people don’t know about, but more should

We head to Kanazawa to visit the birthplace of this “hungry tuna” dish that doesn’t contain tuna.

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A new meaty dawn for Akihabara as neighborhood’s best steak/hamburger steak restaurant reopens

Man oh man it’s good to have Mansei around.

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Is Starbucks Japan’s new Gohobi Melon Frappuccino really the ultimate melon Frappuccino?

New limited-edition drinks have a lot to live up to. 

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Tokyo restaurant’s chicken katsu mabo curry is hard to pin down, easy to love

One plate with two great tastes that somehow create a third.

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Uniqlo opens its first Furugi Project secondhand clothing pop-up shop in Tokyo

We buy clothes at Japan’s only Uniqlo location specializing in reused and remade clothing.

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Japanese black curry “experiment” takes place at an unlikely restaurant branch in Tokyo

A unique katsu curry that’s only available at one place in all of Japan right now.  

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Our Japanese reporter visits Costco in the U.S., finds super American and very Japanese things

The cross cultural appeal of a Costco run in Los Angeles.

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