Month: April 2023

On April 20, Yahoo Japan launched “Food Fest Map 2023” on its smartphone application “Yahoo! MAP” (Android/iOS). This function allows users to check food events held throughout Japan, especially during GW, on a map, look up detailed information about the spots, and search for routes to the sites. To review the Food Fest Map 2023,…

CYCLE MODE TOKYO 2023, one of Japan’s largest sports bicycle festivals, was held at Tokyo Big Sight from April 15 to 16. The festival features an area where visitors can feel the outdoors going with only minimal luggage on their bicycles, an “e-BIKE EXPO” zone focusing on sports-type electrically power assisted bicycles, and bicycles and…

CYCLE MODE TOKYO 2023, one of Japan’s largest sports bicycle festivals, was held at Tokyo Big Sight on April 15-16. Taking advantage of the opportunity, on the second day I visited Odaiba in my own Panasonic “Jetter” to feel the spring air. Some places in Tokyo were reported to have hail in the afternoon, but…

Yokosuka City Kurihama Hananokuni is holding the “Poppy and Nemophila Festival” (1 Shinmei-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture) with free admission until May 28. Currently, the nemophila in the “Herb Garden: Flower Garden in the Sky,” located at an elevation of approximately 70 meters, are at their best, and from late April, approximately 1 million Charley…

Hashi Corporation will open “napooKaLa~napooKaLa~beach resort” (7325 Nakatsubara, Wakimoto, Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture), a five-unit glamping facility in Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, on April 29. In advance of this, the company began accepting reservations at resortglamping.com. A total of five dome tents and a café have been set up as a café and beach glamping next to…

Heiwa Real Estate has begun construction of Caption by Hyatt Kabuto-cho Tokyo (12 Nihonbashi Kabuto-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo), scheduled to open in 2025. Hyatt’s newest lifestyle hotel brand, “Caption by Hyatt,” welcomes guests and locals alike to the hotel and aims to be a community where guests can connect with each other and with the local…

Yokosuka seaside Partners will hold the “Spring Rose Festa” at Yokosuka City Verney Park (1-1 Shioiri-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture). The period is May 3-28 (10:00-16:00 each day), and admission is free. During the period, the lawn area of the French-style flowerbed, which is normally inaccessible, will be opened to the public. Visitors can view…

Rakuten Travel will hold “LUXURY DAYS -Special Sale only for Luxury Inns-” from 8:00 p.m. on April 19 to 11:59 p.m. on April 30 to offer special deals on luxury hotels and inns in Japan. A coupon of up to 10,000 yen can be used on the first day only, and a coupon for up…

EcoFlow Technology Japan will release GLACIER, a portable refrigerator, and WAVE 2, a new portable air conditioner model, on May 10, and will accept pre-orders at online stores and electronics retailers starting April 26. GLACIER is a portable refrigerator with refrigeration, freezing, and ice-making functions; the 23-liter and 15-liter storage compartments can be switched to…

Oku-Ibuki Kanko will open the Dodogatake Lift (Oon, Kinomoto-cho, Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture) on April 22. The lift takes about 6 minutes to the old battlefield where the battle of Shizugatake (Mt. Shizugatake) was fought in the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600), and from the top of the mountain, visitors can enjoy a magnificent view of Nagahama…