Month: November 2024

Gora Hanadan will open a sushi restaurant supervised by Keiji Nakazawa of the famous Edo-mae sushi restaurant Sushi Takumi at the Gora Hanadan Fuji, an accommodation facility scheduled to open in July 2025. Fuji, a World Heritage Site, on a 50,000 m2 site (Susuri, Oyama-cho, Suntou-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture). The hotel will have a total of…

Amazon (Amazon Japan) is having a time sale on Jackery “Portable Power Supply 1000 New”. Normally priced at 139,800 yen, it is 45% off at 76,890 yen at the time of writing. The set model with solar panels (1 or 2) is also 45% off. Jackery Portable Power Supply 1000 New is the successor to…

On November 19, Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. announced the full-scale launch of the “Osaka Maru Building Reconstruction Project (tentative name). The building is scheduled to open in 2030. Osaka Maru Building (1-9-20 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture) was established in April 1976 as Japan’s first cylindrical skyscraper. Due to the aging of the…

On November 18, Marriott International opened the Four Points Flex by Sheraton Osaka Umeda (1-10-3 Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture), the company’s 100th hotel in Japan. The brand’s first facility in the Asia-Pacific region, this mid-scale hotel is designed to provide a comfortable stay at an affordable price, and is built like a so-called…

Weathernews announced snowfall trends for this winter. Snowfall this winter is expected to be normal or above normal from Hokkaido to the San-in region. On the other hand, the Pacific side of northern to western Japan and northern Kyushu are expected to be near normal. Due to the La Niña phenomenon, westerly winds will meander…

Oedo Onsen Monogatari Hotels & Resorts will add facilities to its direct round-trip bus service between major stations and facilities in Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Hakata starting December 1. The four new facilities to be served are Nagayama (Ishikawa Prefecture), Premium Yamashitaya (Ishikawa Prefecture), Awara (Fukui Prefecture), and Premium Gero Shinkan (Gifu Prefecture). This brings…

Brooks Brothers Japan will collaborate with PEANUTS to hold a limited-time, store-only event where customers can purchase a targeted shirt and have their original Snoopy embroidered on it. The event will run from November 29 to December 1 at six stores: Omotesando, Marunouchi, Yokohama Motomachi, Osaka, Umeda Hankyu, and Kyoto Takashimaya. Ten types of men’s…

IHG Hotels & Resorts operates 19 hotel brands with more than 6,400 hotels in over 100 countries. In Japan, IHG Hotels & Resorts currently operates approximately 47 hotels under seven brands from Hokkaido to Okinawa (as of June 30, 2024). For this interview, we asked Mr. Masazumi Yamashita, General Manager of ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel…

Fuji Campaign,” which JR Tokai is running under the theme of “Mt. Fuji x 00,” is offering travel plans to enjoy Mt. Fuji in autumn and winter from September 27 to March 31, 2025, through “EX Tabi Destination Reservation” and “EX Tabi Pack. The plans include Shinkansen tickets, accommodations while enjoying Mt. Fuji, hot springs,…