Seibu Prince Hotel Worldwide announced plans to open a new hotel under the Prince Hotel brand in Momodohama, Sagara-ku, Fukuoka City, in the spring of 2026. The project will have 20 floors and 229 rooms, and will also include a fitness gym, club lounge, and multipurpose hall. The hotel will be located near the coastal…
Month: December 2023
Campaign for 1,000 winners to receive 30,000 yen worth of JRE points when using Suica
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) will conduct a “Spend a total of 30,000 yen with Suica and win JRE POINT worth 30,000 yen! campaign from December 1 to January 8, 2024. If you enter the contest via the dedicated website and fulfill the two conditions for participation, 1,000 people will be selected by drawing…
Mitsui Shopping Park LaLa Terrace TOKYO-BAI, directly connected to JR Minami Funabashi Station, will open on November 29. We took a look at the 36 stores, including a fresh food supermarket and the first café in the Kanto area!
Mitsui Fudosan will open Mitsui Shopping Park LaLa Terrace TOKYO- BAY (2-2-1, Wakamatsu, Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture), a lifestyle-type commercial facility, on November 29. The two-story structure directly connected to JR Minami-Funabashi Station houses a total of 36 stores, mainly in the lifestyle convenience category. Notable stores include “Café Amazon,” Thailand’s largest coffee chain, which will…
The lavender color is very elegant. Rapunzel design back and smashall from LANVIN en Bleu
LANVIN en Bleu, LANVIN’s second line, has released items designed for the Disney movie “Rapunzel on the Tower. The “Tote Bag” (31,900 yen) and “Smartphone Shoulder” (22,000 yen) will go on sale December 1. The “tote bag” features a ribbon design of Rapunzel’s shining golden magical hair and comes with a long shoulder. It can…
President Tanaka meets with Mr. Duarte, Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund ｜ News & Media
JICA President Akihiko Tanaka met with Mr. Duarte, Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), on November 20. Mr. Duarte, who took office in August 2023, emphasized the importance of climate change adaptation measures and the promotion of private-sector partnerships, and expressed his desire to reform the organization so that developing countries can more…
Ghibli Park, new area “Witches’ Valley” to open in March 2024. The “Daisanpo Ticket” for admission to all areas with ticket reorganization is 3,500 yen on weekdays.
Ghibli Park (1533-1, Ibarakamariama Otsu 1533-1, Nagakute City, Aichi Prefecture) will open the “Valley of the Witches” area on March 16, 2024. This will mark the opening of all five originally planned areas. The area will feature buildings inspired by the world of movies. There will also be a carousel and flying machines that can…
Global WiFi Campaign to Win 1 Million Yen Travel Voucher
Vision, an overseas mobile Wi-Fi router rental service provider, will hold a “Make your next overseas trip more special” gift campaign from November 27 to December 19. To commemorate the one millionth friend of the Global WiFi official LINE account, 100 people who add the company’s Global WiFi official LINE account as a friend (or…
Forecasted traffic congestion on expressways during the year-end and New Year’s holidays, with many traffic jams on both the up and down lines on January 2. The longest is 40 km at Hadano Nakai Interchange on the Tomei off-ramp on December 29.
NEXCO East Japan, NEXCO Central Japan, NEXCO West Japan, JB Honshi Kosoku, and Japan Road Traffic Information Center have announced the traffic congestion forecast for the year-end and New Year period from 2023 to 2024. Traffic congestion is expected to be heavy on the downbound route on December 29-30 and January 2, and on the…
BLISSTIA Hakone Sengokuhara” opened on December 25. 63 rooms including guest rooms with open-air baths
Sankei Building and Tokyu Land Corporation will open BLISSTIA Hakone Sengokuhara (29-1, Sengokuhara, Hakone-cho, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa Prefecture) on December 25. The facility is Japan’s first hotel condominium (38 rooms) and hotel residence (25 rooms) combined. Located in the Sengokuhara area, which can be accessed in about 1.5 hours from central Tokyo, there are many tourist…
JR West expands the service area of Series 227 “Urara”. The Sanyo Line will operate to Himeji and the Hakubi Line to Niimi.
JR West will expand the service area of the “Urara” Series 227 train for the Okayama area on January 20, 2024. With this expansion, the new service will operate between Himeji Station and Okayama Station on the Sanyo Main Line and between Soja Station and Niimi Station on the Hakubi Line. The number of service…