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The Most Expensive Japanese Resturant in Jakarta

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Merdeka
A new Japanese restaurant is opened in Indonesia. With the concept of authentic Japanese food that opened in Cikini Raya, Jakarta, named Kokoro. At this restaurant, not only the food that you will get, but you will also feel the 'hospitality (omotenashi)' which is the true essence of the ...

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Zunda Saryo

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JAPAN TRAVEL
Sendai's Specialty In Tasty Treats to Anyone Sendai has three main food specialties (which are mostly shared with the rest of Miyagi): sasakamaboko, gyutan and zunda. Zunda is a sweet paste made of edamame (immature soy beans). It's often used to cover mochi (rice cakes filled with a...

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Shirakawa-go, the beautiful place that you must visit in Japan.

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JAPANESE STATION
 
The next stopover places visited by the team of Japanese Station is to the village of Shirakawa-go Ogimachi. Shirakawa-go itself is one of the locations into the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995 and is known as a traditional village with houses typical of Gassho-zu...

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Sapporo Snow Festival to be held Feb 5-11

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The 66th Sapporo Snow Festival begins on Thursday. The annual festival, which will feature around 200 ice and snow sculptures in Odori Park, the grounds of Community Dome Tsudome and the main street in Susukino, will run until Feb 11.
 
Festival organizers said they expect 2 million...

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Fish-shaped Japanese sweets: The most appetizing way to swallow a goldfish

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Whoa, hold on a second here! It’s a well-known fact that the Japanese diet includes lots of fish. The country also has an undeniable sweet tooth, with legions of gourmets constantly searching for the next trendy dessert.
 
Could this photograph actually be fish gelatin, though?
 
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One Piece themed amusement park due to open in Tokyo this March

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Anime and manga fans will soon have even more reason to visit the country that offers the opportunity to eat Pikachu-themed meals at the Pokémon restaurant or gaze up in awe at an 18-foot tall giant Gundam. The long-awaited world’s first One Piece amusement park will be arriving on ...

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Japan Set for Record 13 Million Visitors in 2014

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JAPAN WSJ
 
apan is on course to see a record 13 million visitors by the end of 2014, the latest figures released by the Japan National Tourism Organization show.
 
Between January and November this year, 12.2 million travelers from overseas visited Japan, the organization said Wednesday, putting...

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Open-top bus offers quick tour of Osaka landmarks

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
OSAKA — Osaka Sky Vista, the first open-top tourist bus in Osaka Prefecture, has been well received — with repeat customers — since its launch about five months ago, as passengers are treated to a sense of space and quick trips to various Osaka landmarks.
 
The double-deck bus op...

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Visitors to Japan surpass 10 million in 1st 10 months

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The number of visitors to Japan in January-October grew 27.1 percent from a year before to 11,009,000, already topping the full-year record of 10,363,904 marked in 2013, an estimate by the Japan National Tourism Organization showed Wednesday.
 
As a result, the number of visitors...

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Choosing Fast and Cheap Over High-End Chic in Yokohama, Japan

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NY TIMES
 
It was breakfast time in Yokohama Station, a half-hour by train from Tokyo, and I was having some of the best soba noodles of my life. The chewy buckwheat strands were sublime, the broth deeply savory and piping hot. A fresh-cracked egg floated on top, its yolk a gorgeous sunrise orang...

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