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In Japan Family restaurants or 'famiresu' are popular affordable places to eat out that are slighly more luxurious than fast food restaurants. While people usually finish their Mc Donald's hamburger or Gyudon quickly and leave, they tend to spend hours at family restaurants! Usually you can find groups of Japanese high school students at family...

In Japan the 1st of September is national disaster prevention day, it started in 1960 on the anniversary of The Great Kanto earthquake (which caused massive devastation in Tokyo and the surrounding areas) as a way to encourage people to make disaster preparations. With Japan having so many earthquakes which can lead to other natural...

Starbucks Japan is always releasing new flavors left and right throughout the year. Japan isn't new to weird foods. Yet, Starbucks Japan usually finds odd combinations that sound like they wouldn't taste good together, but once eaten they prove our senses wrong! This month, the newest flavored frappe is called Caramelly Pear! We love trying...

In recent years more and more people in Europe and America have transitioned to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. There are plenty of options in supermarkets as well as in restaurants for lovers of veggies and tofu meat. There are very few vegetarians and vegans in Japan however and it doesn't seem like that is...

TokyoTreat Candy Box October 2018 – Trick or TokyoTreat Double, double, toil and trouble! Last month we had an awesome night in, but this month it is time to get out and enjoy the festivities! Our theme this month is Trick or TokyoTreat! We love Halloween and so we definitely wanted to curate a box...

YumeTwin's Box October 2018 Theme – Magical Halloween Get ready for all the kawaii hocus pocus coming this month! We here at YumeTwins absolutely love October. Why? Because Halloween is coming soon of course! We are all about the fun had during Halloween, so we put together a fun box featuring plenty of kawaii and...