Month: April 2024

Eltior will open Harry Potter Cafe Window (5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo), a dedicated takeout store for Harry Potter Cafe, on April 26. Bottled drinks (1,980 yen each) and scones (790 yen each) offered at the Harry Potter Cafe, a cafe that expresses the world of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, will be renewed and…

Aeon Fantasy will begin offering prizes for prize games at its amusement facilities from April 26, based on the image of the four dormitories of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that appear in the “Harry Potter” movies. The lineup includes an original “Platinum Zakka Trunk-Shaped Storage Box” and “Day Bag Pouch” decorated with the…

UNIQLO will release rayon Liraco (1,500 yen), a collaboration with “mofusand” from UT, a graphic T-shirt brand, in mid-June. UNIQLO’s Rirako was developed as a women’s item (Relax & Comfort) that can be worn comfortably in a room for relaxation, instead of men’s steekos. It features an all-over design of popular sharks, as well as…

Maruyama, operator of the tourist complex “Miyagi Matsushima Rikyu” (18 Namiuchi Beach, Matsushima, Matsushima-cho, Miyagi-gun, Miyagi Prefecture), will open “Tully’s Coffee Harbor Terrace Matsushima Rikyu” on April 26. The facility is located at 9.99 meters above sea level at the highest point along Matsushima Bay. Visitors can enjoy their purchased drinks at the observatory café…

On April 22, the National Roadside Station Liaison Association and TelWel East Japan launched “Roadside Station Marche,” an official mail order site for roadside stations. The lineup will include special products from 1,213 stations nationwide, as well as original products developed at roadside stations. The company will start with about 20 products at 20 stations…

Tottori Prefecture is running the “Tottori Sand Megu Route: Let’s explore Tottori with Sand” campaign on the location-based game application “Pokemon GO. The campaign is a tour around the prefecture with Tottori Hometown Ambassadors “Sand” and “Alola Sand” using the official prefectural route added to the game. To coincide with the campaign, a “Tottori Sand…

IHG Hotels & Resorts operates 19 hotel brands with more than 6,300 hotels in over 100 countries. In Japan, the company currently operates about 47 hotels under seven brands from Hokkaido to Okinawa (as of March 2024). For this interview, we asked Shigeru Samejima, general manager of the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Akita, about the…

SoftBank will launch the “Overseas Giga Large Increase Campaign” to increase data capacity to 90GB while maintaining the same “Overseas Anshin Flat-rate” rates. The campaign will run from April 26 to May 6 and covers Asian countries and regions classified as Flat-rate Country L, such as South Korea, China, and Taiwan. This service is available…

Due to expected crowds from April 22 to April 24, the park will open earlier at 9:00 a.m. (closing time will be 5:00 p.m.). The parking lot will open 30 minutes prior to the opening. General admission fee + seasonal fee Adults 800 yen, seniors 65 and over 560 yen, junior high school students and…

On April 23, Alpen released the “Transformation Bag” from its private brand “TIGORA,” which can be used as a shoulder bag or a daypack depending on the purpose. The price is 2999 yen. Zippers and snaps allow the bag to easily transform from a shoulder bag to a daypack without removing the luggage. The shoulder…