JAPAN TRAVEL
A Vegan Friendly Cafe With A Host Of Tasty Eats!
Seeking some vegan grub to enjoy after exploring Hiroshima? Art Cafe Elk is a must visit if you're in the area. Although their menu isn't fully vegan, they do have many vegan friendly options on the menu - as well as dishes that can be...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Hiroshima’s Miyajima island is already one of the most picturesque and popular sightseeing destinations in the whole country. And it now just got even better — and cuter.
The small island just off the coast and famous for its “floating shrine gate” at Itsukushima Shrine is always t...

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DEEP JAPAN
 
Friendly Staff Selects And Explains Some Of The Best Stationery
Bunbougu （文房具） is the Japanese word for stationery and it includes all kinds of items that you might use for writing, drawing, or paper crafts. In Tokyo Omotesando, you can find a selection of the best stationery fr...

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JNTO
 
Manga cafés are places where, for a nominal fee, you get access to a huge number (often thousands) of Japanese manga and can spend some quality leisure time with the manga of your choice.
Many cafés offer private booths and complimentary internet access and refreshments, which can range fr...

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Cubano Sandwiches and more at this gem of a cafe
If you've seen the 2014 movie "Chef" starring Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara and Scarlett Johansson amongst others, it's likely that you've heard of the Cubano sandwich. Introduced to the United States by Cuban immigrant workers in Florida...

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Paradise found
This was the Garden of Eden that the folks in downtown Naha forgot, let alone those in the far away capital of Tokyo. Perched on an ocean side mountain about 400 meters above the beaches of north-west Okinawa Island, there are stunning and uninterrupted views out to wh...

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A great place to eat and learn about macrobiotic food
Sobe’s Café is located in Hanamaki near Fuji University in the south part of the city. What is special about this place is that it’s a macrobiotic restaurant and shop. They also grow their own organic rice, have regular seminars a...

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Enjoy healthy, tasty food in a relaxed atmosphere
Looking for lunch one day in the middle of Shizuoka City, I headed up to the dining floor of the Cenova shopping center, hoping to find something tasty, filling and inexpensive. My eye was caught by the display outside Atari Cafe, adv...

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Meet a real female ninja at her atmospheric cafe
At Ninja Café Kunoichi in Shibuya, the café’s master, Sayaka, welcomes guests to have tea, sake, sweets or a traditional Japanese meal in a unique ninja-themed café restaurant. But that’s not all. Sayaka Oguri is a real ninja who teach...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
This is the sweetest shower of rain we’ve ever seen!
Kyoto is best known around the world for all its beautifully preserved shrines and temples, but in amongst the traditional landscape you’ll find a bustling cafe scene that’s continually pushing the envelope with new and innovative...

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