JAPAN TRENDS
 
This month marks 30 years since the first episode of the anime Dragon Ball was originally broadcast in Japan. So what better excuse is there for a few pop-up cafes in Japan’s two major cities?
Three Dragon Ball Cafes will open inside branches of Tower Records — whose cafe spaces fr...

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Just when you thought the Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen viral phenomenon was fading away, along came a widely reported press conference at the FCCJ in Tokyo to boost the ratings, and now news that Piko Taro’s annoyingly catchy tune has inspired its own cafe.
Created on a modest budget by...

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Video game developer Square Enix will open a new cafe in Akihabara on October 1st.
The Square Enix Cafe comes with a menu inspired by Final Fantasy, the popular video game franchise owned by Square Enix.
 
The latest installment in the Final Fantasy series features some mouth-water...

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THE JAPAN TIMES
 
 
 
Arriving at Falo, prepare for a few surprises of the most pleasant kind. The first is that this sleek-looking new Italian restaurant, which opened in May in Daikanyama, feels and functions like a traditional izakaya tavern.
For a start, there are no tables. Instead, you sit ...

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Japanese Twitter users are weighing in with their thoughts on the two new limited edition items.
With every new season, Starbucks customers in Japan are absolutely spoilt with delicious-tasting Frappuccino flavours like cantaloupe, matcha and sakura cherry blossoms. Now, as we leave...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
The rise, rise and rise of Blue Bottle continues. After its much-hyped arrival in chicly run-down Kiyosumi-Shirakawa in 2014, it swiftly went more metropolitan with branches in Aoyama and Shinjuku.
Now its expansion rolls on with three new branches: Roppongi in September, Nakamegur...

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The Nintendo game character Kirby now has its own pop-up cafe and official store.
Kirby Café and store opens August to September in Osaka, with a concurrent store opening in Nagoya’s Parco department store. The cafe is also set to open in Tokyo at Tokyo Skytree Solamachi at an unan...

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A muscular male “performance team” will bring their brawny charms to Tokyo for the first time this summer. ALLOUT will open a special “muscles cafe” in a venue on Omotesando on July 30th. All 230 tickets quickly sold out, so ALLOUT added an extra date on August 27th.
At Muscle Cafe...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Choi-nomi refers to light drinking at family restaurants and other casual dining establishments. Coffee chains and fast food outlets are joining the trend as younger generations become the main patrons of the service, which allows them to enjoy drinks as part of affordable food s...

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The third-wave coffee boom in Japan continues with Minedrip Coffee, which has opened on the rooftop of Shinjuku Lumine NEWoMAN.
NEWoMAN, which itself only opened in March, already has an insanely popular branch of Blue Bottle on its ground floor (go check out the crowds of people a...

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