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Akashiyaki: A regional dumpling with a fascinating backstory

Osaka might be famous for takoyaki, but Akashi is the place where octopus balls first started.

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Yoshinoya tries its hand at French food with new beef miroton, but is it any good?

Yoshinoya knows beef, but do they know what they’re doing with this French home-cooking staple?

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“Sipping meat,” the semi-secret Osaka food that sounds like a joke, is seriously tasty

Leave it to Osaka to turn a comedian’s hungover quirkiness into a delicious meal.

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Our Osaka native taste-tests the extra-expensive, extra-large Bikkuri Takoyaki octopus balls

Seiji goes big as he goes home.

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All-you-can-eat sashimi from Tokyo’s fish market, convenient location make this budget hotel great

And the free ochazuke makes it even better.

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Look out, Starbucks — McDonald’s Japan has now entered the dessert drink game

Can a fast food chain beat a coffeehouse chain at its own game?

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We beat two crane games at a Japanese arcade and take home two lucky bags

Check out our UFO Catcher haul!

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Take it from a local: This resort island off the coast of Nagasaki is totally worth a side trip

It’s the perfect weekend getaway for Nagasaki locals…and the perfect place to add to a visitor’s itinerary!

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Japanese vending machine is the only one of its kind in Japan, dubbed the “phantom machine”

A neat example of marketing to help a rural community. 

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We try Keiji, an incredibly rare and expensive one-in-ten-thousand salmon sushi 【Taste test】

With only one of these caught for every 10,000 salmon, this rare fish comes with a super high price tag. 

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Seattle burger chain Lil Woody’s has arrived in Tokyo! But is it any good?【Taste Test】

Mr. Sato utilizes his sophisticated palate to determine whether Lil Woody’s is worth the hype. 

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Hiroshima samurai house’s toilet and shrine show it wasn’t always easy being a warrior family

Small details tell some big stories.

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Five things about New York that surprised our Japanese reporter

There are many quirks to life in the Big Apple, but not all of them are easy to get used to. 

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Osaka “restaurant” run by owner who doesn’t want to work may or may not let you in

Nothing is certain at Umeda Yang Rou Chuan.

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How to go buy condoms without spoiling the mood with the help of Schrödinger’s toilet and robots

Our newly single reporter Seiji devises and tests three methods that could only come from a mind like his.

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Japanese vending machine sells…retro toothbrushes?

This is one weird machine you won’t find anywhere else!

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Japanese prison mascot appears in children’s colouring book made by prison inmates

Can an anthropomorphised prison wall really capture the heart of a child? 

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We take a giraffe nap in a standing sleep pod at a cafe in Tokyo

Testing the benefits of vertical sleep and coffee in Harajuku.

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Is Burger King Japan’s new Crown The One Pounder really that hard to eat?

One person’s cheesy nightmare is another person’s divine dream.

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One of Tokyo’s low-key best rooftop views is about to disappear, so see it while you can【Photos】

Mr. Sato visit the beautiful skies of a Tokyo rooftop most travelers have never heard of.

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