Oct 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Shinkansen online ticketing service reports customer data leak Online reservation system handles tickets for Shinkansen’s “Golden Route” and Kyushu. If you’re planning to take a ride on the Shinkansen, the Smart EX online ticketing service is a handy utility. ...
Oct 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan’s super cute tanuki bread skips tricks, promises to be treat for your eyes and taste buds You can trust this tanuki to be as sweet on the inside as it looks on the outside. In Japanese folklore, tanuki are tricksters. There’s nothing they love more than playing pranks on us unsuspecting...
Oct 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japanese snack lovers may soon be spore-ting the latest crowdfunded confectionery tech Play that fung-ky music. From creepy penguins hatching from eggs to flying balls of chaos, Japan likes to jump on the latest quirky trends, and if history is anything to go by, people will soon be ...
Oct 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Cup Noodle launching “isekai” crossover line featuring flavors from outside instant ramen world An isekai trip for your taste buds, no truck accident required. Isekai translates to “alternate world,” but within the Japanese pop culture sphere it’s also the name of a genre of anime, novels, an...
Oct 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Starbucks Japan unveils new Christmas goods for 2026, with exclusive holiday surprises Festive cheer is here, with mugs, tumblers, candles and keychains you won’t find at any other time of year. It’s that time of year again, when we look at the calendar and realise there’s now less ...
Oct 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan getting a brand-new batch of Pokémon manhole covers in eastern prefecture this fall Five new reasons for Pokémon fans to head north from Tokyo. Fall is a fantastic time to take a trip to Gunma Prefecture. Located about two hours north of Tokyo, Gunma gets some beautiful autumn fol...
Oct 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- One simple unexpected recipe swap will make your Japanese-style omelets extra fluffy and juicy And one more cooking hack will make your dashimaki tamago fluffier still. In terms of ingredients, dashimaki tamago is an incredibly simple dish. A type of Japanese omelet, you can make it with jus...
Oct 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- This curry restaurant might have the worst location in Tokyo…or maybe the best Alk Road finds a way to turn a negative into a positive. There are a lot of curry restaurants to choose from in Tokyo, but Spice Curry Alk Road stands out from many of its rice-and-roux rivals by v...
Oct 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Baum vending machine in a Yokohama station lets us eat cake served on a luxury cruise ship Our favorite kind wasn’t even the one we expected, but they were all the baum-dot-com. It takes a lot to surprise us when it comes to Japanese vending machines, considering we’ve seen everything fr...
Oct 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Visiting the “world’s most precarious temple” in China, where getting there is half the battle Xuankong Si is surprisingly both extremely out of the way and extremely crowded. Our writer Seiji recently visited China, where he got a haircut on the side of the road and did some sightseeing. On...
Oct 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Beloved, 100-year-old Tokyo public bathhouse Sengenyu is about to get a second life this December Various entities take a dip together to save a community institution and preserve public bath culture for the next generation to enjoy. Public bathhouses, known as sento in Japanese, have long serv...
Oct 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Fishing information website for Susaki, Japan, hit by data leak, all 3 users affected Personal information for everyone posting to the site over the past year compromised. For the past week, there has been an inordinate number of hacking and data leakage from all kinds of websites, ...
Oct 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Is this crazy-looking home sauna just what our busy daddy reporter needs in his life? Ahiruneko’s single-guy sauna days are done, but this gadget promises to bring the steam right into his home. Back in his bachelor days, our Japanese-language reporter Ahiruneko used to go to a saun...
Oct 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- 10 of the nicest celebrities we’ve met in Japan over the years Who wowed our reporters the most with sheer friendliness? Our website has been around for quite a while now, and over the years we’ve even had the opportunity to rub shoulders with famous movie sta...
Oct 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- This Tokyo snack shop can send your taste buds on a trip around Japan for just 1,000 yen There’s a new sweets curator in downtown Tokyo. In an ideal world, we’d spend every single day on a meandering journey through Japan, stopping see the sights and sample the delicacies whenever and ...
Oct 25, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Mochido donuts make a squishy return to Lawson stores across Japan Mochido or Mochidon’t. There is no Mochitri. Earlier this year, we stumbled upon a pair of donuts sold by convenience store chain Lawson that completely redefined the genre of convenience store don...
Oct 25, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video] Chainsaw-wielding robots prove they can contribute to human mobility in ways other than people running away from them in terror. Japan’s rail network is famous for its sterling safety and reliabili...
Oct 25, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- 93-year-old Japanese grannie helps set trap for scam artist half her age This woman was the target of a criminal scheme, but she definitely wasn’t going the be the victim of it. Over the past few weeks, Japan has seen a sharp spike in the number of data leaks and cybera...
Oct 24, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Tokyo restaurant adds special seat for live-streaming and social media posting [Video] Yakiniku Like wants to help diners get some likes of their own. Japan has a lot of yakiniku restaurants, where you grill your own meat, but Yakiniku Like is different from the rest. Whereas typical...
Oct 24, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan’s mission to Martian moon and back underway This mission is expected to be the first-ever Martian moon landing. At 4:41 a.m. on 20 October, an H3 rocket took off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. It was carrying the ...
