Category Archives: News

Jagarico and Black Thunder

The World Baseball Classic, a world baseball tournament, is currently (15 March 2023) being held, with games being played in Tokyo and the US. Japan’s national team, known as Samurai Japan, is through to the quarter-finals with an unbeaten record. Following the TOKYO 2020 Olympic Games held two summers ago, many reporters from overseas have visited Japan, and although the sports media reporters seem to be enjoying Tokyo for the first time since the Olympics, they are busy and don’t have time for sightseeing. So what keeps them entertained? Japanese snacks. Potato snacks “Jagarico” and chocolate bar “Black Thunder” are particularly popular. Both are inexpensive and easy to find, and […]

Love Johnny’s Idol?

If you are a fan of Japanese idols living abroad and want to buy idol magazines published in Japan, we can help. As well as monthly magazines full of Japanese idols such as King & Prince, SixTones, Snow Man and Naniwa Danshi, we can also buy the latest and back issues for you, including fashion magazines featuring individual members and film magazines featuring the movies they star in. Note: For back issues, popular issues may be sold out. We can also purchase “Programme (Film Booklet)” on your behalf, which are unique Japanese publications available only in cinemas. Note: Only available for films currently on release. We can now read magazines […]

Super Repair Man in Narita Airport

Various unforeseen accidents can occur during a trip. Especially at the airport, you tend to be in a hurry because of the heavy luggage you are carrying. – I’ve just arrived in Japan and a wheel on my suitcase have broken! – I’ve lost my suitcase keys! – The soles of my favourite shoes have come off! etc. In such cases, please visit the repair shop in the airport to solve the problem as soon as possible and continue your enjoyable journey. Riat!, located in the basement of Narita Airport Terminal 1, has skilled and reliable repairmen who are well-known for their TV interviews, so if you have any problems, […]

Time to move on

Dear all, it has been a while. We last dispatched our products to the customer in the spring of 2020. More than two and a half years have passed since then, but the Covid-19 has not yet ended. However, we, the humankind, have struggled and learned how to live with Covid and have finally started to walk forward. So we are starting again. Omotenashi Japan will shop for your products in Japan on your behalf, on demand. We may not be able to accept foods with short expiry dates as the delivery systems in each country are still unstable. There are also restrictions on delivery methods, and it pains us […]

Continuously closed

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Update from Omotenashi Japan 20 July 2020 Dear customers, Due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, our store is continuously closed until Japan Post resume their services to accept international packages. As of 17 July, they only accept international packages only for China, Indonesia, etc. Most of the countries our customers reside are still under the suspension. *See JAPAN POST Website We hope to receive your orders as soon as their services are resumed. Until then, please go through our products and be ready to place your order! We will let you know when we reopen through our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter so please make sure you follow us! We deeply […]

Omotenashi Japan store temporarily closed

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Dear our customers, Due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and the strong request issued by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, our store is temporarily closed until further notice. You can view the products but cannot proceed the payment. We deeply apologise for your inconvenience. In the meanwhile, stay at home and stay safe. Omotenashi Japan

UPDATED April 1: Caution of COVID-19

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Temporary suspension of acceptance and delivery delays of mail items destined to various countries/territories Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, delivery from Japan to all over the world takes longer than usual base especially for China, Mongolia, Korea and Hong Kong. We hope all of you can keep yourself healthy with washing hands! WHO(World Health Organization) CDC Official Website(US) NHS(UK) European Union Official Website Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry of Foreign Affairs of JAPAN

NOTICE ! We have 10 days holiday all over Japan

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Please be advised that we have very big 10 days “Golden Week National Holiday” in Japan from 27th April to 6th May. Almost of all public business such as post offices and banks will be closed. We will therefore ship orders which we received during the holiday after 7th May.          

Privacy Policy – updated

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Privacy Policy? GDPR? What is going on around us? Will this be affected us in Japan? Those were our initial reactions. We are based in Japan so we are not always familiar with the rules and regulations outside of Japan. However, since the latest update of wordpress, and we kept receiving the emails from all over the world notifying their Private Policy, etc., we finally learned the GDPR compliance is applicable to even us in Japan and absolutely necessary to follow. Our instant thought was that we should stop providing our services to all European customers, however, we thought again as we have a number of regular customers in the […]