Mitsui Fudosan announced that Mitsui Shopping Park LaLa Terrace Kawaguchi (3-5-1 Sakae-cho, Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture) is scheduled to open in May 2025 as part of the “Kawaguchi Station Commercial Facilities Project (tentative name)” in Saitama Prefecture. This is a renewal project of the former Sogo Kawaguchi Store in front of JR Kawaguchi Station. The…
Month: December 2024
Tomei Makinohara SA (Ascent) fully renewed. Matsuya Shokudo opens for the first time in a SA/PA, offering a set meal of one soup and three vegetables, centering on pork cutlet and pork miso soup.
Central Japan Exis will open “Matsuya Shokudo, Makinohara SA Upstream Branch” at Makinohara SA (Upstream) on the Tomei Expressway, the first of its kind among highway SA/PAs nationwide. The opening date is December 21. On November 26, the food court and shopping corner on the small car parking lot side were renovated, and with the…
MOL Cruises Announces Cruises Departing April-June 2025 on the Nippon Maru, Including a Round-the-Japan Cruise during GW
MOL Cruises has announced cruises departing from April to June 2025 aboard the Nippon Maru. Reservations will be accepted from 10:30 a.m. on January 31, 2025. In addition to familiar cruises such as “Golden Week Round-the-Japan Cruise” and “Kumano Premium Cruise on Nippon Maru,” several short cruises of one to two nights are also available….
ANA launches an in-flight cart for drink service. New lightweight model priced at 190,000 yen.
On December 18, ANA Trading released a new type of cart (unused) for beverage service onboard ANA flights. The price is 190,000 yen (plus 2,750 yen for large package shipping). It will be available at the official e-commerce site “ANA Shopping A-style” and “A-style ANA Mall Store”. The cart, which has been used on retired…
Imperial Hotel celebrates 135th anniversary with 135-hour stay plans and reissue of traditional sweets
The Imperial Hotel Tokyo will offer new accommodation plans, reissued sweets, a limited number of whiskies with original labels, and a rakugo storytelling event as the third of its 135th anniversary commemorative projects. Since the Imperial Hotel will celebrate its 135th anniversary on November 3, 2025, the hotel has designated November 3, 2024 to March…
39% off Coleman 5-6 person tent sets. Includes inner/ground sheet.
Amazon (Amazon Japan) is having a time sale on the Coleman Tough Wide Dome V/300 Start Package. Normally priced at 68,970 yen, it is 39% off at 42,288 yen at the time of writing. The set includes Coleman’s classic “Tough Wide Dome V/300” tent and the essential inner sheet and ground sheet, which can be…
JAL raises fuel surcharges for tickets issued from February to March 2025. To 18,500 yen for Hawaii and 3,000 yen for Korea.
JAL will increase the applicable fuel surcharge for tickets issued between February 1 and March 31, 2025. The two-month average of the Singapore kerosene market price from October to November 2024 was $88.60 per barrel. Multiplying this by the average exchange rate of 151.57 yen per dollar for the same period, the yen equivalent of…
HIS “Hatsuyume Fair 2025” starts on December 20. Includes up to 20% off coupons and experience-oriented plans for 3,330,000 yen round-the-world trip.
H.I.S. will hold its annual and largest sale, “Hatsumu Fair 2025,” starting December 20. Online reservations are available until February 4, 2025 at 10:00 a.m., and telephone and in-store reservations are available until February 3, 2025. The key words are “Come on, HIS!” HIS is a travel agency that offers a wide variety of travel…
COP29 Side Event] Promoting the Forest Sector’s Contribution to NDC Targets: Innovative Initiatives and Nature-Based Solutions in Forest Management and Monitoring in Africa | News & PR
reporter Name Affiliation Title Yasuko Inoue Project Long-term Expert, Sustainable Forest Management and Landscape Restoration for Forest Sector Strengthening and Community Climate Change Resilience (SFS-CORECC) Project, Kenya, JICA summary Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 12:00-13:30 (local time) Co-organized by the Kenyan Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forests (MECCF) and Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Japan…
Grant Aid Agreement Signed for Pakistan: Contributing to Flood Risk Reduction by Strengthening River Management Systems | News & PR
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Grant Agreement (G/A) with the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on December 17 in Islamabad, the capital of the country, for the “Strengthening Flood Management in the Indus River Basin. Signing Ceremony A summary of the business is as follows Project Name Plan for Enhanced…