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Akihabara arcades aren’t dead yet! New six-floor game center opens in Tokyo...
Namco steps in with its first-ever Akihabara arcade. Japan is one of the last places on earth where you can still find giant, multi-story video game arcades, or game centers, as they’re called...
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Japan’s newest capsule toys: Capsules that Absolutely Won’t Open【Photos】
Our natural instinct is to open up our Gashapon capsules ASAP, but it’s not so simple here. Part of what makes buying capsule toys in Japan so fun is the growing sense of anticipation. By the time you...
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“Grandpa’s F**k it, Whatever Anything Best 3” gacha is today’s weird capsule...
Handwritten note from a Japanese granddad turns out to be heartwarming…and strangely heartbreaking at the same time. You can find some weird things inside Japan’s gacha capsule toy machines, and some...
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“World’s Smallest Othello” games on sale in Japanese capsule machines and...
Here your greatest opponent is the board game itself. As a hardworking SoraNews24 reporter with his finger on the pulse of the board game industry, P.K. Sanjun was already well aware that 2023 is the...
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Real-kitty-litter snow globes coming soon to Japan’s capsule toy vending...
All the excitement of your cat pawing up a storm at its litter box with none of the mess to clean up! Usually, decorative snow globes come in one of two varieties. Either they depict a cold-weather...
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Sushi key cover capsule toys remind you of Japan’s oft-forgotten delicious...
Playful miniature food replicas are also a Japanese play on words. When most people imagine a piece of sushi, what they’re thinking of is the type called nigirizushi, a rectangle of rice with a slice...
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Japan’s new tiny ninja capsule toy collection turns your desk into a secret...
Six-piece collection adds some shadow warrior fun to your workday. Shadow warriors are part of the fabric of Japan, with their legacy living on today at a number of places, like at the ninja dojo in...
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Naked mole-rats aren’t naked any more thanks to a new line of Japanese...
The next step is to get them to iron the shirts. I have to admit, every time I hear talk of one certain animal my hand instinctively reaches for my pearl necklace so I can give it a good clutching....
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We got our paws on the real-kitty-litter snow globe, and here’s how it looks
Spoiler: it’s worth it. Last month, we told you about the real-kitty-litter capsule toys by Kitan Club, and ever since then we’d been keen to find one. Our Japanese-language reporter Saya Togashi...
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Kura Sushi adding premium tier pricing for better chance at capsule machine game
Kurazushi also sells sushi if you’re into that kind of thing. Ever since having kids, my conveyor belt sushi options have been pretty much limited to just Kura Sushi/Kurazushi. The main reason for...
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Gacha capsule toy machine sells Casio watch rings in Japan, and we try to get...
Will the gacha gods smile kindly on our desire to own all of these cute miniature watches? Gacha capsule toy machines can be a mixed bag when it comes to what’s inside them, with some containing...
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Japan’s new Coins of Destiny capsule toys want to help you answer life’s most...
Such as “Should I get up now, or go back to sleep?” Capsule toys are often saddled with the stigma as being silly, unimportant little trinkets. Here to shatter that misconception is capsule toy maker...
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Our writers take on the world’s smallest four-player Othello game
The real Othello battle rages within. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the classic board game Othello, as trademarked by Goro Hasegawa in 1973. As such, the Japanese producer of the game...
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Gacha capsule toy machine sells…Japanese rice bags?!
Putting a new spin on the supermarket shop. Gacha capsule toy machines are one of the many joys of Japan, with their clear display cases promising a world of exciting goods. The only catch is you...
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Daruma Man: The Japanese gacha capsule toy series we never knew we needed
Here to help you with the heavy work of making all your wishes come true. For a lot of people, the beginning of the year is a good time to set goals, and in Japan there’s a unique way to help make...
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Akihabara capsule toy lucky bag is filled with cute characters and cool crap...
Mulan Akiba delivers the randomized gacha goods. It’s probably not a coincidence that Japan, the country with a tradition of celebrating New Year’s with blind-buy lucky bag/fukubukuro bundles, is also...
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Opening 70 toys in a capsule toy lucky bag is our best tip for killing time...
We crack open an overwhelming batch of toys–from the charming to the wacky–in which there’s gotta be something for everyone. Our Japanese-language reporter Haruka Takagi has conclusively determined...
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Tokyo capsule toy machine gives you real samurai-era antique coins, but are...
Little capsules of history. Japan’s capsule toy machines offer all sorts of different items, but the basic transaction is pretty much the same for all of them: you feed the machine some pocket change,...
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Akihabara Radio Kaikan’s gacha capsule toy lucky bag is an otaku delight【Photos】
Anime characters and cute models are some of the surprise finds in this fukubukuro. As we head towards the end of January, the signs of New Year are beginning to fade, with only a few fukubukuro...
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Legendary shojo manga classics get reprints as miniature capsule toys with...
Small packages contain a huge dose of girls’ comics history and nostalgia. This year, two of Japan’s most prominent shojo manga (girls’ comics) anthology magazines are celebrating their 60th...
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