Month: March 2024

JINS will release new 2024 JINS/Disney models and related goods on March 7. The lineup includes 16 models of glasses in 40 types and 8 miscellaneous goods. Prices range from 6,600 yen to 10,900 yen. New to the lineup are glasses with Mickey & Friends character art to enhance everyday moods and glasses that change…

The Kyushu Round Trip Tourism Revitalization Consortium opened RV Park smart at “Michi no Eki Toyo” (1051-1 Toyo-machi Minami, Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture) and started reservations for overnight stays. RV Park smart is a wide-area overnight spot that is being developed to promote tourism in areas such as transit areas. Yatsushiro City has been focusing…

Kisuke Co. held the grand opening of a men-only capsule hotel, “Sauna & Spa Hotel Kisuke no Yado Matsuyama Ekimae Branch. Located on the second floor of the entertainment complex “Kisuke BOX” (4 Miyata-cho, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture) in the center of the city, a 10-minute drive from Dogo Onsen Hot Springs and a 1-minute…

This issue focuses on rockwork (pseudorockwork), for which a 1/4-size model was unveiled following the previous Costume and Vehicle issue. Tokyo Disney Resort unveiled on February 27 models, costumes, and vehicles for Fantasy Springs, the new theme port at Tokyo DisneySea that will have its grand opening on June 6. The highlight is the full-length…

Sugoi Sauna will open the Akasaka (men-only) and Higashi Azabu (women-only) branches of its public magma-spa style sauna. The magma spa type sauna utilizes the effect of radiant heat generated by heating lava rock from Mt. The room temperature can be kept lower than that of conventional saunas, which reduces the burden on the body…

JR Tokai launched today, March 4, “Yakuya, Nara no Tabi,” a collaboration between the tourism campaign “Pushy Travel” and the best-selling book “Yakuya no Hitori Goto” (The Yakuya’s Journey to Nara), which has sold more than 33 million copies in its series. The program includes a stamp rally to solve riddles in the ancient capital…

Toyama Prefecture has released a special page for the Toyama Support Campaign, a Hokuriku support discount. The Hokuriku Ouen Wari program provides up to 50% of the travel price to domestic and international visitors in order to restore tourism demand in the four Hokuriku prefectures that suffered a decline due to the Noto Peninsula earthquake…

On March 4, AirAsia launched a joint campaign with the Tourism Authority of Thailand, “Now is the Time for a Great Trip to THAILAND! As the first phase of the campaign, from March 4 to March 10, tickets to Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi/Don Muang) will be on sale with special one-way fares starting at 15,990 yen. The…

Mitsui Fudosan Commercial Management will open a “Chiikawa POP UP STORE” at Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport Ebina (13-1 Ogimachi, Ebina City, Kanagawa Prefecture). The period is from March 16 to 31. The lineup includes plush key covers featuring Chiikawas (6 types, 1,870 yen each), a hair band that turns you into an eccentric Hachiware (1,430…

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has selected an expressway section that is currently provisionally two lanes as a priority improvement section to be converted to four lanes. For the candidate four-lane sections to be newly initiated in FY2024, 11 sections of approximately 57 km were selected based on a comprehensive assessment…