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Monster Strike welcomes new character Aruka, voiced by Azumi Waki, to the Extreme Beast God Festival gacha on July 4, 2026, alongside a Japan national soccer team collaboration and a quote-post campaign.
For two days only, Japanese restaurant Goryori Mukyu in Roppongi Hills is pairing Japanese-style assiette desserts with a tasting of Japanese teas curated by table tea ceremony instructor Naoko Tomita, bringing the spirit of tea ceremony to life through a light, contemporary lens.
mumokuteki cafe KYOTO, a vegan cafe in Nakagyo ward, central Kyoto, has started selling this year's batch of its popular homemade red shiso juice from July 2, available in Hot, Ice, and Soda styles for dine-in or takeout.
On Saturday, August 1, 2026, kakigori specialist Asako Harada personally shaves premium shaved ice at the café 囲炉裏と甘味 gururi inside Nagaragawa Seiryu Hotel in Gifu, reviving a popular event held for the first time in Gifu Prefecture last year.
A talk event by photographer Yuki Ueda comes to Nagoya Minato Tsutaya Books on Sunday, July 12, 2026, marking the release of his latest photo book ARCA この星の物語, featuring landscapes from the Himalayas, Antarctica, Iceland, and beyond.
Nakamachi Hyoka Ten, a natural ice specialty brand from Matsumoto, Nagano, is collaborating for the first time with Salt Consortium, whose restaurants and cafes in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka have each created their own limited-edition kakigori using the same rare natural ice.
Itsukiri, a retreat in Isumi, Chiba, will host a two-night-only gastronomy event this September pairing its executive chef Ai Kimura with Daiki Horita of Nara's Michelin-starred VILLA COMMUNICO, uniting mountain and coastal terroir in one course alongside a stay built around hot springs and sauna.
Kracie's long-running DIY candy Nerunerunerune turns 40 this year, and Queen's Square Yokohama is hosting a colorful "Witch's House" pop-up event from July 31 to August 2, 2026, with hands-on candy-making, photo spots, and a meet-and-greet with the character Nerune.
Eleven chefs with roots in Shinshu come together across culinary genres for Next Shinshu 2026, a one-night collaboration dinner at Hotel Sierra Resort Hakuba in Nagano on July 7, 2026. Reservations are already full.
NHK Culture Center's Chiba and Kashiwa classrooms are opening a new course exploring why Seishi Yokomizo's novels continue to be read and adapted, timed to the September 2026 release of the film The Village of Eight Graves, taught by Nishogakusha University professor Naotaka Yamaguchi.
From July 17 to August 31, 2026, Nihonbashi Dashiba Honten and Hanare are offering two ECO EDO Nihonbashi 2026 specials — a chilled dashi amazake and a jellied dish of shrimp and summer vegetables — bringing Ninben's signature honkarebushi dashi to the season in cooling form.
Nijigen no Mori on Awaji Island is adding two summer-only shaved ice desserts to its ongoing Attack on Titan collaboration, both themed on the series' "hardening" ability and inspired by Eren and Annie. They go on sale at a kitchen car from July 13, 2026.