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New Kirby Character Cafe in Tokyo Features Unique Food Dishes And Drinks

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Fans of the Nintendo game character Kirby can rejoice at a new dining establishment in Tokyo aimed squarely at them. The Tokyo Skytree’s Solamachi mall will once again host a Kirby pop-up cafe, opening September 27th.
Of course, the cafe offering “delicious times, precious memories...

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Kero-chan Cafe is Latest Cardcaptor Sakura Pop-up Eatery in Tokyo

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Fresh on the heels of the pop-up cafes that opened in Tokyo, Osaka, and Sapporo in February, the manga and anime franchise Cardcaptor Sakura will open another venue in Tokyo for the spring and summer.
The 60-seat Kero-chan Cafe opens on April 27th at Tokyo Skytree Town Sola Machi a...

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Cardcaptor Sakura Cafe Opens in Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
The manga and anime franchise Cardcaptor Sakura has spawned a lot of spin-off merchandise over the years, and it now has its own cafe in Tokyo.
 
The shojo manga about elementary school student Sakura Kinomoto is celebrated by a pop-up cafe at Tower Records Shibuya from February 6t...

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First Permanent Pokémon Cafe to Open in Tokyo in March 2018

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Japan will finally gets its first ever permanent Pokémon cafe, opening in the central Tokyo district of Nihonbashi in 2018.
The new Pokémon Center Tokyo DX and Pokémon Cafe are scheduled to open jointly at the same site on March 14th next year inside the
 
Nihonbashi Takashimaya de...

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Japanese Cafe’s New Hot Mint Chocolate Beverages Are a Cool Way to Keep Warm This Winter

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Why settle for hot chocolate, when you can have hot mint chocolate?
Last summer, Japan went on a huge mint chocolate kick. Sure, the flavor has been a mainstay of supermarket freezer sections for decades, but this year you could find all sorts of sweets, from Western-style cookies t...

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Starbucks Opens at Historic Japanese Sites: Miyajima and The Onsen that Inspired Spirited Away

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ROCKET NEWS
 
The global coffeehouse chain has two stunning stores planned for theseworld-famous tourist spots.
Starbucks might be a global company, but in Japan it has a cult-like following. There’s an insatiable appetite for anything emblazoned with the iconic green mermaid logo here, which mea...

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Amazon Opens Physical Bar Space For Ten Days in Tokyo

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Amazon continues its expansion into the offline sphere with a new space, but, unlike its recent entry into the North American bookstore and food market sectors, this one will focus entirely on alcoholic drinks.
Following in the footsteps of Rakuten’s own bricks-and-mortar projects,...

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Hello Kitty Cafe Coming to Osaka For a Limited Time!

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Dear Daniel joins Hello Kitty to bring cuteness and love to a collection of themed meals and drinks.
When it comes to themed cafes in Japan, we’ve seen limited-time offerings for Sailor Moon, Naruto and even Pokémon, and while Sanrio characters have had their share of pop-up cafes t...

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Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) Pop-up Themed Cafes in Tokyo, Nagoya in January 2017

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Makoto Shinkai’s anime Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) has been the biggest film of the year in Japan, so it was surely only a matter of time before we had some spin-off cafes.
These tie-in spaces have become one of the most popular forms of marketing for franchises and character series ...

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Tokyo’s First Russian-style Maid Cafe

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Twelve men sit in silence at a new cafe in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district as three women dressed in Russian attire start serving a sour-looking plate of borscht.
The men have each paid ¥15,000 to attend this soft opening of ItaCafe, which bills itself as the city’s first Russian maid caf...

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