These are a couple videos highlighting the lives of 69-year-old funeral director Hisao Mitani and his 26-year old African spurred tortoise, Bon-Chan. The two have been together since Mitani’s wife found Bon-Chan in a pet shop 26 years ago, and since the tortoise was about 10 (and a decent size),
These are several videos from the Diorama Restaurant in Osaka, Japan, of the resident cats playing with the model trains that run around the restaurant. Wow, this restaurant has it all — model trains AND cats. All the restaurants around here have no frills, just bad food that’s even worse
This is a video of Youtuber DancingBacons providing a first-person POV experience of eating at an individual hot pot dining booth at a Japanese chain. It’s wild because you’re sitting right across from, and next to, other people, but there are dividers in-between to remind you that you’re alone. Me?
This is a video of a person buying and taste-testing different cakes-in-a-can from a vending machine in Japan. Even as a cake aficionado (caker), those cakes look GOOD. I like how they’re served in transparent cans too so you can actually see what’s inside. Here in the U.S. they would
Note: Check your volume, yelling. Because Mother Nature is everywhere and she’s pissed, this is some helmet-cam footage from a climber in Japan being attacked by a bear. If you watch the footage closely you may notice the bear has a cub with it, so it probably felt it was
This is a behind-the-scenes look at how Japanese school lunches are made. The meals, which are heavy on the vegetables, are changed every day, and several new menu items are added monthly so the kids don’t get bored of eating the same food. For reference, when I was in school
This is a video from photographer Uly Huerta featuring a thirty minute uninterrupted walk through the various districts of Osaka, Japan, including the “shopping districts of Namba and Nipponbashi, the new world district of Shinsekai, and the residential area of Joto-ku.” It was nice and relaxing. I almost felt like
This is a curved digital billboard above Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station that will display a giant cat optical illusion through the day, because that’s exactly what the world needs more of. I swear, Japan is always ahead of the curve. Some more info: According to TimeOut, “the cat will have its