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 Akira Shibayama, general manager of the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel…
Month: November 2024
Koji Inoue’s “Hints for Railway Travel”] To what extent can “time adjustments due to subsequent delays” be forgiven? Train Delay and Waiting for Connection and Disruption of Connection
When traveling abroad, stories sometimes come up about how they had to run at the airport because they were going to miss their connections due to delays, and the author has experienced this as well. The same thing happens in train travel. Latency and connection waiting If the itinerary only requires one train to get…
Snow Peak opens “BBQ & Pizza Nagasaki Stadium City,” a take-out specialty restaurant. Meals, drinks and sweets menu with a sense of the outdoors.
Snow Peak will open “Snow Peak BBQ & Pizza Nagasaki Stadium City” on November 27. A new type of take-out specialty restaurant adjacent to Snow Peak Nagasaki Stadium City in Nagasaki Stadium City. The menu includes outdoor meals such as wood-fired pizza, spare ribs, and chicken legs, as well as handmade potato chips and franks…
Hotel “CETRAY Nagoya (tentative name)” to open in spring 2026 in the redevelopment area of Nakagawa Canal. Total of 24 rooms, including Reston and hot bath sauna.
HORONIC will open its first new hotel in the Tokai region, tentatively named CETRAY Nagoya (tentative name), in the spring of 2026. Nagoya Station Kaihatsu, Chubu Civil Engineering, and MARU ARCHITECTURE are participating in the “NAKAGAWA CANAL DOORS (tentative name)” (opening in spring 2026), a development project in the Nakagawa Canal Horikome district, which aims…
JAL Furusato Ambassadors / Regional Love】JAL cabin crew introduces a great night out in Kumamoto! Why don’t you come visit Lux Night KUMAMOTO?
JAL, which has bases throughout Japan, has been continuously implementing regional revitalization initiatives (currently the “JAL Furusato Project”), and in August 2020 launched the “JAL Furusato Ambassadors,” cabin crew members selected through an in-house recruitment process who move to the area to promote initiatives in their respective regions. In December of the same year, JAL…
Nomad Desk, a smartphone ring stand with double-sided magnet to stick iPhone anywhere.
Nomad Desk has released “NOMAD STAND GEAR EDGE,” a smartphone ring stand that can be attached and fixed to an iPhone on a bathroom wall or refrigerator. It is priced at 3,800 yen. This double-ring type stand with strong N55 neodymium magnets on both sides can be attached to MagSafe-compatible iPhones to attach to walls…
3COINS adds warmth and convenient functions to winter military coordinates. Gloves/ Shoulder bag/ Neck gaiter, etc.
3COINS has launched military-style fashion items from its “3COINS MENS” series for men. It will be carried in some stores nationwide and on its official online shopping site, Parcel Closet. The collection features trendy military wear with cold-weather protection for the cold season. The lineup includes a simple design that blends in with winter coordinates…
ANA JCB Card adds Gold top tier, fully invitation-only; renewed for U-29
ANA and JCB will renew the “ANA JCB Card ZERO” as the “ANA JCB Card First” with higher service content around January 2025. ANA and JCB will also add the “ANA JCB CARD Precious”, a fully invitation-only card for current “ANA JCB Wide Gold Card” users, around March 2025. The “ANA JCB CARD FIRST” is…
Tokyo Disney Resort Recalls Christmas-Patterned “Stainless Steel Bottles
Oriental Land announced a recall of stainless steel bottles sold at Tokyo Disney Resort (supplier: Onishiken Seihan). The product, which is printed with Christmas designs and priced at 3,800 yen, is available for 4,240 units sold between November 8 and 15. This was due to a problem with some of the products in which the…
Tobu Zoo opens its back space to the public for a limited number of baby white tigers. Health checkups can also be observed.
Tobu Zoo (110 Suga, Miyashiro-cho, Minami Saitama-gun, Saitama Prefecture) will hold limited events from November 30 to December 21 and December 14 to 20, where visitors can see a baby white tiger in the backspace before the park opens to the public. The two babies were born on November 7, weighing over 1 kg, and…