CafeCat Marshmallows A hand-drawn marshmallow cat that floats in your coffee, then gradually doesn't
Karafuneya Coffee The Kyoto kissaten that built a parfait for 25
Oshirado A pavilion of a thousand horse-god effigies, rewrapped in prayer cloth every year
Japanese Anatomical Woodblock Prints Tiny workers run the body like a village, one gate labeled 'urine'
Finds
- CafeCat Marshmallows A cat that floats in your coffee, then slowly doesn't
- Tomarigi A thousand live cameras, arranged on a map of Japan
- Ozu in Color Every Frame a Painting returns to explain how Ozu learned colour
- Seiko Presage x Tradman's Bonsai A dial textured like black pine bark, in a green that means good fortune
- Thank You, Everything A picture-book litany of thanks, built on tsukumogami
- Tousu at Tofuku-ji Japan's oldest surviving toilet, still standing after 500 years
- Karafuneya Coffee 150 parfait flavors, some built to feed 25 people
- Oshirado A folk museum pavilion holding a thousand hooded horse-god effigies
- Funatsu-Tainai Lava Tree Mold A cave in the shape of a tree that burned away
- Japanese Anatomical Woodblock Prints Tiny workers run the body like a village, one gate labeled 'urine'
- Panasonic NN-SF57RM A Japanese-style microwave with a flatbed interior and no turntable
- Bandai Co. Head Office Godzilla, Goku and Shin-chan standing life-sized on the pavement outside an office tower
- Osaka's Midpoint The golden pin every distance sign in the city counts from
- Station Melodies of Greater Tokyo A listening archive of the jingles that greet trains at the platform
- Coleman Japan Dual Gas Burner Stove A camp burner that runs on convenience-store gas, not rare OD canisters
- Saya Irie's Eraser Shaving Sculptures Images erased, then recomposed from their own shavings
- Yasujirō Ozu's Former Home Sleep in the century-old Kita-Kamakura house where Ozu spent his final years
- Park Hyatt Tokyo (reopened) The Lost in Translation hotel reopens after a Studio Jouin Manku redesign
- Manga Kamishibai Eric Nash's book on the Japanese paper theater that preceded anime
- Snow Peak Field Barista Kettle Stainless and brass pour-over kettle with a removable wood handle
- Snow Peak Micro Hozuki Sub-inch waterproof clip-on lantern, 27 lumens, candle-warm light
- Snow Peak Shimo Tumbler 360 Duo Set Stackable, vacuum-insulated 12-ounce stainless tumblers, two-pack
- Snow Peak Urban Umbrella Water-repellent, UV-treated umbrella with a ring hook for hanging off tables
- Spring Stacking Titanium Mug Set Two double-walled Snow Peak titanium mugs, anodised in seasonal colour
- Kai Hakone A 34-room ryokan on the Old Tokaido Road, refurbished around Edo-period travel rituals
- Noir (Yamazaki) Japan's bittersweet answer to Oreos, made when Mondelez moved Oreo production overseas
- Azuma Farm Koiwai A 24-room slow-living retreat on a working Japanese farm
- Capella Kyoto Kengo Kuma-designed hotel that feels like an old townhouse, not a chain
- Casa Nano 2.0 Japanese micro-house where every cubic inch does something