Jensen Huang hands out red bean buns to Tokyo crowd in his latest culinary adventure

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Tokyo to announce AI and robotics partnerships, including a joint AI factory with Noetra Corp, and handed out red bean buns to a crowd outside a local izakaya. The trip also included a stop at a former Sega arcade and a dinner with top Japanese tech executives.

Jensen Huang came to Tokyo bearing gifts: a slew of AI and robotics partnerships for Japan's tech industry, and red bean buns for the crowd. On Wednesday, the Nvidia CEO https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-settles-fights-over-nvidias-ai-chips-auto-chief-2026-7 visited a red-lantern izakaya, a traditional Japanese bar, in Tokyo's Kanda district, where a crowd gathered outside hoping to glimpse "kawa-jan" — "leather jacket" https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-wardrobe-black-leather-jackets-signature-look-2024-3 — as he's affectionately known in Japan. The trip's centerpiece, announced Thursday, is a partnership with Noetra Corp, the state-backed AI developer formed by SoftBank, NEC, Sony, and Honda, to build a 27,500-GPU "AI factory" billed as the world's first national AI infrastructure for robotics. Huang also swung by a former Sega arcade in Akihabara to thank the gaming giant whose $5 million lifeline he said saved a struggling Nvidia in the 1990s, and visited the chipmaker's Build-a-Claw event. However, it was the after-hours itinerary that stole the show. Huang was spotted having dinner at Yakiton Sankichi, a chain bar popular for after-work drinks, where Japanese outlet Diamond Online reported the CEO of the world's most valuable company tucked into offal hotpot and a "baka-mori" — roughly, "stupidly big" — mountain of fries. 米半導体大手、エヌビディア — ダイヤモンド・オンライン @dol editors ジェンスン・フアンCEO来日 「東京での1日」を追う！ 東京・神田のやきとん三吉で取引先と懇談 フアン氏が食べたのはもつ鍋や山盛ポテトフライ （写真はお店の許可をいただき撮影しました） ダイヤモンド編集部が密着したシーンを順次お届けしていきます。… pic.twitter.com/6IN9fUYxyH July 15, 2026 His tablemates: the top execs from Kioxia, Tokyo Electron, Shin-Etsu Chemical, Sumitomo Electric, Taiyo Yuden, and Ajinomoto, per Bloomberg. When dinner finished, Huang emerged to the waiting crowd and pressed red bean buns, a popular Japanese snack, into outstretched hands. For Huang, eating like a local has become a tradition https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-street-food-influencer-taiwan-china-korea-2026-5 on his business trips. In May, he was spotted eating fried bean sauce noodles on a Beijing sidewalk https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-china-trip-noodle-market-trump-xi-nvidia-2026-5 after accompanying President Donald Trump on his state visit to China. "It's so good," he told a crowd of onlookers. 真接地气！网友于北京南锣鼓巷，偶遇世界首富黄仁勋正在吃面。 — 作家崔成浩 @cuichenghao pic.twitter.com/XEJScDAYBG May 15, 2026 Over the years, Huang has been photographed at street food spots in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and South Korea, where his fried chicken dinner https://www.businessinsider.com/photo-jensen-huang-nvidia-fried-chicken-samsung-hyundai-crowd-fame-2025-10 with the heads of Samsung and Hyundai was crashed by photographers last year. Wherever Nvidia announces its next AI factory, the local restaurants should probably start prepping now.