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APA Hotel will open the 40-story high-rise tower hotel “APA Hotel & Resort Osaka Namba Ekimae Tower” (1-2 Minatomachi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture) on December 2. Prior to this, the hotel is accepting room reservations through the official website APA APA App (APA Direct). Located in front of the east entrance of JR Namba…

2024 Travel, operator of the international travel booking application “NEWT,” will start “NEWT FES Mega Summer Sale! on June 6 at 12:00 p.m. Special price tours are available for the first 210 groups for 31 overseas areas starting from 21,800 yen, and other summer travel deals are available (examples below). Tokai On Air, a video…

Fuji Motorsports Forest and Odakyu Electric Railway will begin direct service from Basta Shinjuku to Fuji Reien to Fuji Speedway Hotel on June 1 on Odakyu Highway Bus’s express bus Hakone Line as the first step in their collaboration to further revitalize the Gotemba area. Highway bus route connecting the Shinjuku area with the Gotemba…

Amazon (Amazon Japan) is running a four-day “Smile SALE” from 9:00 a.m. on May 31 to 11:59 p.m. on June 3. The sale also includes Jackery Japan’s “Portable Power Supply 1000 Plus,” which sells for 117,600 yen, a 30% discount from the regular price of 168,000 yen. Portable Power Supply 1000 Plus is a model…

Citizen Watch will sequentially release limited edition models commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Citizen Promaster brand in the land, sea, and air categories, respectively. The first watch from the nautical category, the Mechanical Diver 200m 35th Anniversary Limited Edition (NB6026-56L) will be released on June 6, 2012. It will be priced at 143,000 yen…

New panda items and monochrome food ・Big clip (two pandas): Felissimo’s “YOU+MORE!” brand launches a new 15cm wide big clip with Gemini Panda printed on it. Available in blue and red (440 yen each). Panda Mont Blanc: Mont Blanc with whipped cream and strawberries at Dolce Fleurier (920 yen) Coffee bag and snack set: A…

UNIQLO is holding the “UNIQLO Thanksgiving Festival” until June 2 to thank for its 40th anniversary. The second phase of the event started today, May 31. A flyer was released on the official website. The highlight of the collection will be UNIQLO U’s crew-neck T-shirts (short sleeves), which are made of materials, silhouette, and details,…

Walt Disney Japan launched “RAINY DAY,” a new collection of items for use during the rainy season. The lineup includes a folding umbrella (4,700 yen), an originally designed umbrella case (1,700 yen), and a raincoat (7,500 yen), all jointly planned with the rain goods brand Wpc. The jointly planned item is the “[Wpc.] Folding Umbrella…

Amando will renovate its Amando Roppongi store (6-1-26 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo) to commemorate its 60th anniversary. Amando was founded in Shimbashi in 1946 with the founding philosophy of “making customers happy with sweet foods. From 1949, after the war, the company opened stores in Tokyo with pink-toned interiors and packaging, hoping to “bring cheer amidst…

MD Holdings released “Osaka-Kansai Expo Myakumyaku Dry Small Natto Beans Dashi Soy Sauce Flavor” and “Osaka-Kansai Expo Myakumyaku Dry Small Natto Beans Light Salt Flavor”. Priced at 540 yen at the official online store. Small natto snacks packaged in seven sachets designed with the official Expo character “Myakmyak”. The low-temperature vacuum-frying process keeps the bacillus…