Month: February 2023

Osaka Metro (Osaka Municipal High-Speed Railways) is currently conducting a demonstration experiment of a face recognition ticket gate as part of its cashless/ticketless ticket gate initiatives for the Osaka-Kansai Expo to be held in 2025. In addition to this, the company will launch a “digital ticket service using QR codes” and a “Visa touch payment”…

Comfort is offering 2023 student and graduation travel plans at HOTEL MASTAY Jingu-michi, a 16-room apartment hotel (159 Isi-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture). The stay is from February 10 to March 16. The rate is 20,000 yen per night for a room in a Comfort Twin Zhu (for two people) or Family Room Zhu…

Hotels.com has released its ranking of overseas travel destinations based on search results on its Japanese-language website from October to December 2022. In the ranking, Oahu, Hawaii ranked third, following Seoul, Korea and Bangkok, Thailand. In response to this, the company introduces recommended hotels and discounts in Waikiki, Hawaii for graduation trips for students who…

Logos Corporation, an outdoor goods company, held the “2024 LOGOS COLLECTION” in Tokyo for store personnel and the media, displaying the autumn and winter models to be released this year. This year’s lineup includes a number of new cooking-related products that are perfect for the autumn appetite, as well as items that focus on flames…

Tokyo Dome Hotel (1-3-61 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) will open a new collaboration room with the Yomiuri Giants for the opening game of the 2023 Tokyo Dome season, and will begin accepting web reservations only at 10:00 on February 22. Taking advantage of the location overlooking Tokyo Dome, the hotel has two types of rooms: “THE…

Kasumigaseki Partners will open “FAV TOKYO Ryogoku” (1-9-10 Ryogoku, Sumida-ku, Tokyo) on March 1, 2012, about a 6-minute walk from JR Ryogoku Station. All 19 guest rooms are decorated in midnight blue, inspired by the summer sky of Ryogoku. Glass windows in some rooms offer views of the Sumida River and Ryogoku. Room types include…

Smile Tank has resumed sales of a total of four types of the “Smatetsu” lineup, a series of charging devices for smartphones, Series N700/0/923 and 922 Doctor Yellow, which had been waiting for delivery, at its online store BASE. The USB AC charger is designed to look like a real railroad car, and the headlight…

Nishi-Nippon Railroad has announced the dates from March to June for the “Fukuoka Airport View Tour,” an open-top bus tour through Fukuoka Airport. March – June 2023 Implementation Date March 18, 19, 25, 26 April 22, 23, 29, 30 May 20, 21, 27, 28 June 17, 18, 24, 25 The “Fukuoka Airport View Tour” is…

Tokai Kisen has released a hand-held miniature container “Brick Container Remote Islands (Island Pouch Version)” at 100-yen stores nationwide. The price is 100 yen (excluding consumption tax). It is a phantom container that exists only one out of approximately 550 containers owned by the company, and is decorated with an original design of the yellow…

For a limited time, Expedia is offering “Expedia Special Offers” of up to 45% off seven hotels in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand. The details of each offer are as follows Expedia Special Offer Hotels Isla Hotel Bangkok is located on Sukhumvit Soi 11 and has a 92-meter rooftop saltwater pool. An art gallery in the…