Okinawa Bus, Naha Bus, Ryukyu Bus Transportation, Sumitomo Mitsui Card, JCB, Bank of the Ryukyus, Odawara Equipment, and QUADRAC will start accepting Visa/JCB/American Express/Diners Club/Discover/ UnionPay will be available on March 27 (Mastercard will be added in the future). The card can be used simply by holding up a card that is compatible with touch…
Month: March 2024
iketerunuigurumi” series is born from Disney Store. You’ll be smitten by the eyes of the popular character with the cool expression that throws a glance at you!
Walt Disney Japan will release the “iketerunuigurumi” series at the Disney Store on March 29. The products are designed to look as if they came straight out of an animation. Each of these plush toys has a popular character glancing at you with a handsome expression, creating an atmosphere as if they are sleeping together…
Prince Waikiki offers up to 25% off for GW. Early Check-in Guarantee, etc.
Prince Resorts Hawaii Inc. is offering a time sale of up to 25% off basic room rates at the Prince Waikiki hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The sale ends April 30. The “After all, Hawaii” plan offers up to 25% off the basic “Now Hawaii” plan, with guaranteed early check-in and bed type request, and a…
Moomin’s official patisserie reopens at JR Tokyo Station. Original eco-bags are also available.
Grapestone will reopen its first ever official Moomin patisserie, MOOMIN SHOP PATISSERIE, as a pop-up store at Gransta Tokyo in the JR Tokyo Station ticket gates. The period is from April 1 to 21. The company has developed a line of comforting sweets inspired by the Moomins’ peaceful life surrounded by nature. The signature “Cream…
Rakuten Travel resumes sales of Toyama/Ishikawa “Hokuriku Ouen Wari” from March 27, 10:00 a.m.
Only “Domestic Lodging” service is available. Reservations made through Rakuten Pack (airline ticket + accommodation/shinkansen/express train + accommodation) and Rakuten Travel’s foreign language website (inbound website) are not applicable. Also, reservations for consecutive nights are not accepted (only single-day reservations are accepted). Rakuten Travel will resume sales of “Hokuriku Oenwari” in Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures…
ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Sapporo” Koyanagi’s recommendation
IHG Hotels & Resorts operates 19 hotel brands with more than 6,300 hotels in over 100 countries. In Japan, IHG Hotels & Resorts currently operates about 47 hotels under seven brands from Hokkaido to Okinawa (as of March 2024). For this interview, we asked Mr. Yuji Koyanagi, General Manager of ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Sapporo,…
Hankyu Umeda “Moomin Market 2024” to be held for the first time in Japan. Limited-edition goods and other items on sale at the forest-inspired venue.
The Hankyu Umeda main store (8-7 Kakudacho, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture) will hold “Moomin Market 2024” for the first time in Japan from March 27 to April 1. At the venue with a theme of refreshment and a forest image, various Mooming goods will be on sale, including the event-exclusive “Embroidered Can Badge Collection”…
Minus 12 degrees Celsius, and Buses to Take Care of Long-Distance Commuting in Extremely Cold Weather? Why the Nemuro Main Line Bus Conversion and “Restructuring”?
Even in minus 12 degrees Celsius, students commute to school 40 km away! Demand for buses to school The buses are busiest when they depart from Itutora Station at 6:13 a.m. for Higashi-Sukagoshi Station (connecting to the train bound for Furano Station). Minami Furano high school students commute to Furano City, 40 km away, by…
Kawagoe Prince Hotel renews Moomin Valley Park-approved “Snufkin” rooms into modern Scandinavian rooms.
Kawagoe Prince Hotel (1-22 Shintomi-cho, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture), operated by Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide, has renewed the Moomin Valley Park-approved concept room “Moomin Special Room Snufkin Version” and will sell only one room per day from April 1. Reservations will be accepted on the hotel’s official website from 12:00 p.m. on March 26. The…
Kinnikuman Museum” will open in late April. Kinnikuman Museum will open in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, a city associated with the Tournament Mountain.
The Kinnikuman Museum Production Committee will open its first permanent exhibition hall, the Kinnikuman Museum (5-2-15 Otemachi, Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture), in late April. The “Kinnikuman” series, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1979 and continues in Weekly Playboy/Shukupre NEWS, is a long-running fighting manga that will celebrate its 45th anniversary in 2024. The…