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Our northern Kanto reporters team up and head to Gunma for a look at this part of Japan that gets overlooked by tourists.
The American ice cream chain has closed all of its branches in east Japan, but this Tokyo train station sells its frozen treats from a vending machine.
We learned some hacks for ensuring the special drink that’s said to partially freeze when you open it does what it’s supposed to do.
After seeing how far away from Tokyo we could get with 5,000 yen, (US$33.80), the winner of our challenge hits the beach.
There’s a premium matcha version of Japan’s favorite cheap chocolate cookie snack, and we need to know if it offers anything the standard one doesn’t.
Our reporters set out to escape Tokyo with a modest budget, a direction to go in, and no other plan.
![Two days to hunt down all of Tottori’s 20 Pokémon manhole covers [Part One]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/09/imgi_170_IMG_6363-2.jpg?w=640 "Two days to hunt down all of Tottori’s 20 Pokémon manhole covers [Part One]")
With a Pokéfuta in every municipality, Tottori lets you explore the entire prefecture on your quest to catch ’em all.
Designed to let foreign goods in while keeping foreign ideas out, this Nagasaki neighborhood is one of the most historically significant places in Japan.
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