Nintendo took a break from expanding last year, but now it’s getting ready to open its first new location since 2023. As revealed back in May, Fukuoka is the next city to be getting a Nintendo shop, ...

Enjoy an elevated Starbucks experience at this famous tourist site.

As the cultural anthropologists who make up SoraNews24’s readership are well aware, autumn is tsukimi/moon-viewing burger season in Japan, when the nation’s hamburger providers serve up sandwiches ...

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Halloween is just around the corner, and so you’re probably going to be seeing a lot of people dressed as witches over the next few weeks. But while a lot of he witches you’ll encounter a parties and ...

Case in point is the matter of a train driver for JR Hokkaido for “not devoting himself to his work,” as the railway put it. At about 5 p.m. on 7 October, a train was stopped at Otaru Station, when a ...

The Kiki’s Delivery Service One-Cup Tea Mug Jiji and Bread Wreath is the obvious choice for a cup of Kiki’s Departure tea. This heat-resistant glass mug has been made by respected Japanese ...

My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Kiki's Delivery Service feature in this new collection.

Priced at 330 yen (US$2.25), the new smoothie uses “Kanjukuoh” (“Kanjuku King” or “Fully Ripe King”) bananas, a famous brand from the Philippines that makes use of fruit that would otherwise go to ...

One of the biggest changes in modern otaku-ism is how much more travel is involved. Anime and idol music used to be largely solitary, stay-at-home hobbies, but now you can easily fill your calendar ...

Enjoy the lit-up structures of an important shrine inside of Ueno Park this autumn complete with special omamori and more.