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SoraNews24Tokyo7-Eleven Japan revamps its convenience store pizza, but did it ruin a good thing? We find out if 7-Eleven delivers on its promise to enhance the size and texture of its pizzas. 7-Elevens in Japan are a cut above those in other places of the world, with hot food so good you’d…

SoraNews24TokyoDo Japan’s new single-minded convenience store bento show depressing poverty or satisfying focus? The line between simplicity and inadequacy can be a fine one. Which side do Lawson’s new Ittentoppasugi fall on?

SoraNews24TokyoOsaka may name a district after mascot Myaku-Myaku I wonder who will become Myaku-Myaku Mayor. For quite a while now, the ruling political party in Osaka Prefecture, the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin no Kai), has been wanting to change Osaka into a…

SoraNews24TokyoOsaka’s amazing budget-luxury hotel has free takoyaki, craft beer, and comedy shows To truly experience the city, OMO7 Osaka is a dream stay for any traveler. When you go traveling in Japan, there are a variety of options from which to choose from, be it hot spring inns or oversized…

SoraNews24TokyoFukushima’s popular dialect T-shirt vending machine gets its first sibling in Iwaki Pick up a wearable Japanese lesson featuring dinosaurs, hot springs, and deep sea fish. Following the 2011 disaster, Fukushima Prefecture has steadily worked to rebuild its tourism appeal, offering a…

SoraNews24TokyoJapanese airport offering 19,250-yen sandwiches as last Japan meal for international travelers If you want one last taste of Japanese luxury, Kansai International Airport has a restaurant that says it can give it to you in just five minutes.

SoraNews24TokyoBeautiful Studio Ghibli coin/card cases recreate scenes and props from anime classics [Photos] What better place to carry your train pass than inside No Face’s Spirited Away train ride? In Japan, the vast majority of transactions involve either coins or a card.

SoraNews24TokyoBear found on Japanese fishing boat, escapes into the sea Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water… Long-time readers of news in Japan will undoubtedly know that we have something of a bear problem.

SoraNews24TokyoNew Cardcaptor Sakura fashion line delivers magical girl style for real-world ladies Anime-inspired looks with for-fans nods to the classic series. Creative costumes are a hallmark of the magical girl anime genre, and while Japanese fashion brand Axes Femme may not be able to provide…

SoraNews24TokyoFamous Kyoto shrine has a message for foreign tourists who think it’s okay to dance at sacred sites Fushimi Inari Taisha asks visitors to show some respect after dance videos filmed beneath its famous torii gates spark criticism online.

SoraNews24TokyoPikachu plushie actually goes into space as part of Pokémon/European Space Agency collaboration Shared spirit of adventure leads to team-up between Pokémon franchise ahead of World Space Week. French astronaut Sophie Adenot is currently on her first trip to space, as part of the European Space…

SoraNews24TokyoDenny’s Mapputatsu? Parfait is hiding a big secret in plain sight that splits us down the middle The Mapputatsu? Parfait tackles food waste without sacrificing visuals so that you can still happily feed both yourself and your phone.

On this week

· Festivals, exhibitions, concerts and food fairs across the country, this week's stories from each region, and what the cities say themselves.

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Day by Day Japan plans a first trip to Japan the way a friend who lives here would: one day at a time, with the trains and the prices written down.

Each route is a real day or weekend: where to go first, how long the walk or the train takes, what the ticket costs and where to eat on the way. Prices come from the operator's or the place's own published fares and carry the date they were checked; where we have not checked a price, the route says so instead of guessing. If it rains, the route has a plan B.

Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

The routes and notes are written by one editor under a pen name, Sora Nakamura, drafted with AI assistance from checked material and read before they go out. Day by Day Japan is independent: no advertisers, no affiliate links, no bookings.