Month: April 2024

Staple will open a food hall, Meiji Park Market, at Tokyo Metropolitan Meiji Park (5-7 Kasumigaoka-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) on April 19. In addition to the Parklet Kiosk coffee stand, which opened earlier in March, the Parklet bakery and Baby J’s, a buttermilk fried chicken specialty restaurant, will open for business, marking the grand opening of…

JR Kyushu Regional Design opened Snow Peak YAKEI SUITE ABURAYAMA FUKUOKA (710-2 Kashiwabara, Minami-ku, Fukuoka City), an accommodation facility for the outdoor brand Snow Peak, on April 18. In addition to the official website, the hotel accepts reservations through Ikyu.com, Jaran, Rakuten Travel, and other websites. Snow Peak is developing “FIELD SUITE HAKUBA KITAONE KOGEN”…

On April 18, Toy Factory released an overnight bed kit as an official customization part for the Toyota Land Cruiser “250”, which is now on sale in Japan. The kit will be available at select Toyota dealers. It is specially designed to match the coloring of the factory seats and incorporate the Land Cruiser logo…

Accor’s premium lifestyle hotel Pullman Tokyo Tamachi (3-1-21 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo) is holding a Nikka Whisky Fair through June 30. Nikka Whisky, one of Japan’s leading brands and celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, offers a lineup of five brands including Taketsuru Pure Malt and Nikka Session. Visitors can order a glass or a bottle…

MOL and MOL Sunflower held a naming and launching ceremony for the first LNG-fueled ferry currently under construction at Uchiumi Shipbuilding on April 11 at the company’s Innoshima Shipyard. This is the third vessel in the MOL Group and the first LNG-fueled ferry on the Oarai-Tomakomai route. At the ceremony, Tomoyasu Marutani, Chairman and Representative…

Oedo Onsen Monogatari Hotels & Resorts rebranded Oedo Onsen Monogatari Hotel Kisoji and opened it as TAOYA Kisoji (2278 Agatsuma, Nagiso-cho, Kiso-gun, Nagano Prefecture) on April 15. TAOYA is a hot spring resort hotel brand that introduces an all-inclusive service that includes meals and on-site services in the room rate. The inn, the sixth in…

On April 15, Tokyo Metro (Tokyo Metro) integrated Metro Point Club (Metopo) for PASMO users and Metro Points for To Me Card users. The services are now integrated into Metopo, allowing users to accumulate and use the same points. To commemorate the service integration, a “Point Service Integration Commemoration Campaign” will be held from April…

Sixteen PARCO stores nationwide and Sanei Urasoe West Coast PARCO CITY will hold “STAR WARS G.W. COLLECTION -PARCO 55th CAMPAIGN-” from April 26 to May 12. The event will celebrate “Star Wars Day” on May 4 (MAY THE FORCE) with a pop-up store and more than 100 special items sold by 26 brands in PARCO….

On April 15, JR East announced a plan to avoid the stone piles of the Takanawa embankment within the planned area of the Haneda Airport Access Line (tentative), which is under construction. The Takanawa Chikkebi was an embankment built along the coast at that time for the construction of the railroad in the early Meiji…

On April 15, JAL held an event at Haneda Airport to commemorate the 60th anniversary of its Tokyo – Seoul route. The route between Haneda and Seoul’s Gimpo Airport began operations exactly 60 years ago today, on April 15, 1964. At that time, it was the only airline to operate the Tokyo-Seoul route with two…