Plaza Create will begin offering a strawberry-picking experience exclusively for hotel guests and discounts on coworking space fees at THE GLAMPING PLAZA ISESHIMA BASE (1480-1 Shinmei, Agoi-cho, Shima City, Mie Prefecture), a glamping facility in Shima National Park. The strawberry picking experience will be held at JA Ise Nagasawa Farm, about a 3-minute drive from…
Month: December 2023
Booking.com Releases Travel Trend Predictions for 2024. Travel for chance discoveries, longing and life tips.
On December 12, Booking.com Japan held a press conference to announce its forecast of travel trends for 2024 and its new travel concept, “Travel is LIFE-This is Me! According to Tomomi Ohata, Director of Public Relations at Booking.com Japan, the trend predictions for 2023 made a year ago tended to have a strong connotation of…
Dinner Cruise Experience in Halong Bay, Vietnam. Buffet, stage show, neon night view, and elegant time.
Hello, I am Akira Fukasawa, photographer. I have just participated in a study tour to “Hanoi and Halong Bay” including World Heritage sites, organized by Vietnam Airlines. This report is from the third day of the trip. I woke up early in the morning and took a leisurely stroll around the Emeralda Ninh Binh Resort….
Marriott “Tokyo Edition Ginza” opened. Luxury hotel with 86 rooms including suites
Marriott International Japan opened Tokyo Edition Ginza (2-8-13 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo). This will be the second Edition hotel following the first Edition hotel in Japan, “Tokyo Edition Toranomon,” and was designed by Ian Schrager, who is responsible for the Edition brand, and architect Kengo Kuma. The building will feature a modern brasserie with a Japanese…
Signing of loan agreement for “Bangkok Metropolitan Electric Bus Introduction Project” in Thailand (Overseas Investment and Loan): Contributing to the reduction of air pollution and improvement of the urban environment in the capital city of Bangkok ｜ News & Media
On December 12, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a corporate loan agreement with Energy Absolute Public Company Limited of Thailand for a project to introduce new electric buses with low environmental impact to public bus operations in the capital city of Bangkok. The loan will be cofinanced with the Asian Development Bank (ADB)…
Vice President Yamada Meets with INTERPOL Secretary-General Stock ｜ News & Media
JICA Vice President Junichi Yamada met with INTERPOL Secretary General Stock at JICA Headquarters on December 8. INTERPOL is an international organization of police agencies from around the world, with 196 member countries and regions. At the beginning of the meeting, Secretary-General Stock spoke of the importance of strengthening the capacity of police officers through…
Opened “ZUKKU NO MORI”, a cottage with private dog run and sauna, limited to 4 couples per day.
M.D. Planning will open “ZUKKU NO MORI” (1405-2 Kamikobori, Katori City, Chiba Prefecture), a dog cottage with a private dog run and sauna for only four dogs per day, in December. In advance of this, the company began accepting reservations at resortgrumping.com. Located about 90 minutes from central Tokyo by car, the facility is about…
Tokyo Metro to Conduct Demonstration Experiment of Displaying Congestion Situation by Car No. On the platform of Aoyama-itchome Station on the Hanzomon Line
Tokyo Metro will conduct a demonstration experiment at the platform of Aoyama-itchome Station on the Hanzomon Line (bound for Shibuya) to verify the effect of changing the behavior of passengers by displaying the real-time congestion status of each train car. The period of the experiment will be from mid-December to the end of March 2024….
New Year’s drinks at Disney Hotels are filled with congratulations in a glass! Start a good year with a toast!
Tokyo Disney Resort will hold a special New Year’s event from January 1 to 8, 2024. You can enjoy the New Year’s menu at the Disney Hotels as well as at the parks starting December 26. Sherwood Garden Restaurant, the buffet restaurant at Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, will offer “Year End & New Year Special Drink”…
JAL Hometown Ambassadors and Supporters] YOSHIMI and JAL Hometown Ambassadors Collaboration Project “Baked Toki Bean Sandwiches
JAL, which has bases throughout Japan, has been continuously implementing regional revitalization initiatives (currently the “JAL Furusato Project”), and in August 2020 launched the “JAL Furusato Ambassadors,” cabin crew members selected through an in-house recruitment process who move to the area to promote initiatives in their respective regions. In December of the same year, JAL…