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traveler’s list Period covered: November 30 – December 31, 2022 Terms: Amazon Payde airline ticket purchase Present: Amazon gift card worth 10,000 yen (100 winners selected by drawing) Note that currently, when Amazon Pay is paid with an Amazon gift card, 0.5% is returned to the gift card balance for regular members and 1.0% for…

December has come and gone, and there are only a few days left in this year. As the weather gets colder by the day, we miss tropical resorts ……, so we picked up two souvenirs from Okinawa Prefecture for this issue. With the announcement of the extension of the National Travel Support Program through the…

The “GO” cab app launched its service in Wakayama and Miyazaki prefectures on December 1. GO is a cab dispatch app that launched in September 2020 and uses real-time vehicle location information and proprietary dispatch logic to improve the accuracy of matching users with nearby vehicles. The newly added areas are Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture…

Hulic Fufu will reopen ATAMI Kaimine-Ro (8-33 Kasuga-cho, Atami, Shizuoka) on December 28. ATAMI Kaifengro is a four-room hotel featuring Kengo Kuma’s “Water/Glass” artwork, in which a glass box seems to float in water. 27 years after its completion in 1995, the hotel has been undergoing renovation since summer. The two luxury suites, “Seiha” and…

On December 1, KDDI began operating a base station using SpaceX’s (Space Exploration Technologies) Starlink satellite communication service as a backhaul line for its au communication network at Hatsushima, Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. The company has announced “Starlink Business,” which provides Starlink communication services to corporations and municipalities, and while this business enables Wi-Fi and wired…

Tokyu Stay Mercure Osaka Namba is located a 4-5 minute walk from both Namba and Shinsaibashi stations on the Osaka Metro Midosuji Line. It is within walking distance of Dotonbori, the center of Osaka’s Minami district, and Shinsaibashi, lined with high-brand stores, making it a perfect location for business stays and sightseeing. A five-minute walk…

On December 1, Casio Computer Co., Ltd. announced the G-B001, which inherits the form of the G-SHOCK DW-001 released in 1994 but with a detachable bezel. The release date is January 27, 2023. With the “DW-001,” G-Shock introduced a rounded design that differs from the rugged, hard form of its predecessors based on the concept…

JR West has decided on the names of the ticket gates to be installed at Osaka Station (Umekita area) and the west side of Osaka Station, respectively, which will be developed as part of the Tokaido Line branch line undergrounding and new station installation project. The ticket gates in the Umekita area will be called…

JCB will conduct the “Kyushu-Okinawa-Yamaguchi Attractiveness Rediscovery Campaign. The campaign will run from December 1 to February 15, 2023. By using a JCB card registered for participation in the campaign at JCB member stores in Kyushu, Okinawa, and Yamaguchi, one entry worth 30,000 yen in total will be drawn to win accommodation vouchers and gourmet…

Walt Disney Japan will release a series of items featuring the Chinese zodiac to add color to the New Year at Disney Stores starting December 9. In honor of the year 2023’s zodiac sign, the rabbit, a collection featuring Judy Hopps, the police rabbit from “Zootopia” will be offered. The collection will also feature a…