BonAppetour is a community marketplace that lets you connect with home chefs in locations all around the world for a uniquely local dining experience. Of course, this includes Japan! Appetite for Japan is all about the most exciting things that you can do, see and eat in Japan, so when I heard about BonAppetour, I jumped at the chance to write about it.
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Where in the world would you expect to find a website that promotes shipping and moving services via the medium of a manga cat? Japan, of course!
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Cardloan Girls is a website that uses moe manga characters to promote credit cards to Japanese consumers. Yes, you read that correctly: cute manga characters are now promoting credit cards in Japan.
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Tokyo has always reminded me of a cleaner, more vibrant Blade Runner. This is no surprise when you consider that the Kabukicho district of Shinjuku is said to have inspired the set for the film. But it’s not just the glittering lights and high-rise buildings of Japan’s city that never sleeps that reminds me of Blade Runner; there’s also Japan’s love of robots.
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