The Kawaii Monster Cafe is an icon of Harajuku fashion culture, blending the charmingly kawaii as well as the delightfully chaotic. It is always popular with tourists and fashionable teens. Even Kim ...

Japan’s newest concept restaurant held its grand opening on August 1 in Tokyo’s Harajuku district, which is well-known as Japan’s mecca for zany subculture fashions and youth culture. We haven’t had a ...

Picture a plate resembling a white palette with paint-looking blobs of red, yellow and blue tossed around a multi-colored pile of thick rubber-like strings sitting in the center. It’s hard to imagine ...

Kawaii Monster Café Harajuku has launched its spring lunch menu. With the interior resembling a sweets wonderland and a colourful menu that feels like it popped straight out of a comic book, it's a ...

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[Update, January 4 2021] Kawaii Monster Cafe announced on its website that it will close down permanently on January 31 2021. No reason was given, but it's likely the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent ...

Japan is famous for its culture of cuteness — better known as kawaii — embodied by popular characters like Hello Kitty or unique fashion subcultures such as Lolita and Decora. In Tokyo, the undisputed ...