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I bought some medicine and beauty products from a Japanese drugstore during my recent trip to Osaka in September 2025. In this post, you can find the prices and translated instructions of these products. Please refer to them as a general guideline because prices vary …
You would have picked up bits and pieces of our Kyushu road trip experience in my previous articles: ‘Overview Northern Kyushu Itinerary‘, ‘Travelling with an infant‘, and ‘Fukuoka Airport to Nagasaki‘. We took a highway bus from Fukuoka airport to Nagasaki and travelled around Nagasaki …
It’s hard to travel light when you have a baby, unless you are a very chill parent, or you can afford to buy most things at your destination. To add to the load, travelling during winter meant more things to pack into the luggage. This post is …
I suppose you are planning a trip with your baby and that’s why you are here. Is it going to be the first time you are travelling with an infant? Then, read about my first travel experience with 8 month old baby during winter. If …
Other than the numerous facial care and makeup products, there are many other hair and body products to buy in Japan’s Drugstores. With so many choices, it’s useful to research the popular items people are getting. It will help you to refine your to-buy list. …
There’s a vast collection of beauty products, including makeup products, in Japan’s drugstores. With so many choices, and me being a noob, I needed to research and find the gems that everyone’s grabbing. I also armed myself with local prices to compare when in Japan, just …
Updated on 15 July 2018 There’s a vast collection of beauty products in Japan’s Drugstores, be it for body, hair or face. With so many choices, and me being a noob to Japanese beauty products, I needed to research and find the gems that everyone’s …
You can find many types of over-the-counter (“OTC”) medicines in Japan’s drugstores. I’m surprised by the variety, and quite a few of them have highly raved reviews online. However, with everything written in Japanese, you wouldn’t know what medicine to buy unless you did prior …