JR Hokkaido will sell ticketless seat reservation tickets for 500 yen (half price for children) on all “Airport” trains between New Chitose Airport and Otaru on conventional lines. Normally, the price is 840 yen. The periods covered are December 27 – January 5, 2025 and January 25 – February 16, 2025. Reservations are limited to…
Month: November 2024
47% off Amazon Echo noise-canceling earbuds for $8,000.
Amazon (Amazon Japan) is having a time sale on its Echo Buds (2nd generation) noise-canceling earphones. Normally priced at 14,980 yen, they are 47% off at 7,980 yen at the time of writing. Echo Buds are fully wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation, created by the Amazon Echo smart speaker/display brand, and come with four…
Seibuen Yuenchi’s Nostalgic Christmas! Sunset Hill Shopping Street, which recreates the streets of the 60’s Showa era, is filled with a holiday mood!
The climax of the festival will be a snowfall! Bukiuki Ugi Festival: A Christmas Miracle” is an entertainment show that makes the retro Showa-era Sunset Hill Shopping Arcade even more lively with Christmas music, costumes, and warm light bulbs. The usual “nosy” residents of the Sunset Hill Shopping Arcade sing, dance, and occasionally involve guests…
Dainagoya Building, “Dainagoya Christmas Illumination” decorates the hanging garden about 30 meters above the ground with over 100,000 light bulbs. Last year, about 180,000 people visited.
Dainagoya Building (3-28-12 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi) will hold “Dainagoya Christmas Illumination” from November 13 to December 25. Lighting hours are from 17:00 to 23:00. In 2023, approximately 180,000 people visited the event, and in 2024, under the theme of “Crystal Christmas,” over 100,000 lights will illuminate the Sky Garden, a hanging garden approximately 30…
Oku-Nikko Hotel Shikisai offers “Astronomical Observation Plan” for star gazing in winter with nothing to do. Also enjoy an open-air bath and a kaiseki dinner.
Oku-Nikko Hotel Shikisai (2485 Nakagu Shrine, Nikko-shi, Tochigi Prefecture), a hot spring inn of Lilo Hotels & Resorts, will offer an “Astronomical Observation Plan” from December 1 to March 31, 2025, to enjoy the winter starry sky of Nikko in a casual manner. Prices start at 21,450 yen per night with two meals (per person…
City bus tickets with designs of Takatsuki related professionals, limited to 2,000 sets to commemorate the opening of the new Kansai Shogi Hall.
Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, will release commemorative tickets on November 16 to celebrate the opening of the Kansai Shogi Kaikan and the 70th anniversary of the city bus service. The Kansai Shogi Kaikan was relocated from Fukushima-ku, Osaka City to Takatsuki, the “City of Shogi,” and opened as a new hall on December 3. The…
Izumo-taisha Shrine to issue information on traffic restrictions and parking for the Shinzai Festival; JAL to make one extra round-trip flight on the 17th.
Traffic information is being disseminated around Izumo-taisha Shrine (195 Kitsuki-higashi, Taisha-cho, Izumo-shi, Shimane Prefecture) in conjunction with the Shinzai Festival. The month of October in the lunar calendar is called “Kanashizuki” because gods gather in Izumo from all over Japan, but in Izumo, on the contrary, it is called “Kanzai-zuki” and Shinto rituals are held…
ANA Pay “Celebrates 1 Million Members Campaign” to increase mileage redemption rate and win up to 100,000 yen.
ANA X will conduct the “ANA Pay Membership Surpassing One Million Members Commemorative Campaign” from November 11 to January 14, 2025. ANA Pay is a smartphone payment service that can be used with the ANA Mileage Club app, which underwent a major renewal in May 2023 and has more than tripled its initial usage target….
Palau with Sara Takanashi! Approaching the Front Lines of the Climate Change Crisis [Presidential Interview Also Realized] ｜ News & PR
The sun beating down, the clear blue ocean, and the abundance of nature. While the Republic of Palau is known as the “Paradise of the Pacific,” it is also greatly affected by climate change. What did Ms. Takanashi learn from her visit to the Republic of Palau, where climate change countermeasures are being implemented, and…
New Era, MLB World Series 2024 Official Player’s Cap “59FIFTY”. Dodgers and Yankees.
New Era will release 59FIFTY, the official “World Series 2024” player’s cap for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, who won the regional championship and played in the World Series for the first time in 43 years, on November 12. It will be available only to members of New Era Rewards, New Era’s…