The start of the season is one that boat operators look forward to every year, when the drift ice, known as “ryuhyo” in Japanese, typically arrives along the coast from late January to mid-February, ...

No trip to Tokyo’s other otaku neighborhood is complete without a visit to this local landmark.

Now, the data for 2025 has been collated and the results are in, revealing that certain types of customers go for different onigiri, and there was one rice ball so popular it ranked in the top spot ...

Marugame Seimen is a very popular chain of restaurants specializing in udon noodles made in the famous style of Marugame, a city in Kagawa Prefecture. This year marks the chain’s 25th anniversary, and ...

New mini-size Frappuccino caters to girls and the traditional doll’s festival that honours them. There are a lot of traditional festivals in Japan, and the next one on the calen ...

Japanese convenience stores’ onigiri (rice balls) have become, to use the parlance of the economic scholarly community, stupidly expensive. Up until fairly recently, standard onigiri, such as ones ...

Can we make it from the capital to the land of the gods, sightsee, eat, find a hotel, and make it home for just 30,000 yen ...

The first cherry blossom desserts are already here, and there are more to come.

And soon one of Ghibli’s all-time great pieces of anime cinema will be coming to its biggest screens ever, with the announcement of IMAX screenings for Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Stories in food drive tag.

In addition to selling delectable cat-themed sweets, the convenience store chain wants to increase cat adoptions and pet food donations.

Stories in hit singles tag.