Too sudden closure or bankruptcy. What happened to the prestigious department stores? In the past, each city in Japan had a department store that was a symbol of its area, as a matter of course. However, the long-standing stagnation of the department store business, the hollowing out of urban areas, and the outflow of customers…
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Peach introduces baggage tag issuing machines at Narita, Kansai, Shin-Chitose, and Naha. Tags are issued by holding up the code on the boarding pass.
Peach Aviation will gradually introduce Peach Baggage Tag Kiosks starting September 11. The machines will be available at Narita, Kansai, Shin-Chitose (Sapporo), and Naha (Okinawa) airports for domestic departures. For checked baggage that has already been applied for, a tag will be automatically issued by placing the 2D code on the boarding pass over the…
Outline of the “Autumn Unlimited Ride Pass” for 2024 announced; unlimited rides on regular trains on JR lines for 3 days; 7,850 yen for adults.
JR Group announced the sales outline of “Autumn Unlimited Ride Pass” and “Autumn Unlimited Ride Pass Hokkaido Shinkansen Option Ticket”. The “Autumn Unlimited Ride Pass” allows unlimited rides on ordinary non-reserved seats of ordinary and rapid trains, BRT, and JR West Miyajima Ferry throughout Japan. For an additional fee, unreserved seats in ordinary and green…
Pokemon Center Nagoya renewal. Commemorative goods / Pre-opening lottery / Komeda Coffee collaboration
Pokémon Inc. will reopen Pokémon Center Nagoya (3-29-1 Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture), an official store handling Pokémon-related products, on October 12. Located on the 2nd floor of the East Building of Nagoya PARCO, the entire floor of the store is a space where visitors can enjoy interacting with Pokemon, and Pikachu and Celebi…
Osaka Metro Chuo Line Yumeshima extension will open on January 19, 2025. Section responsible for Expo transportation
Osaka Metro announced that the opening date of the Chuo Line between Cosmosquare Station and Yumeshima Station will be January 19, 2025. The decision was made in conjunction with Osaka City and Osaka Port Transport System (OTS), which manages the rail facilities, based on construction progress and various inspection schedules. Osaka Metro will be the…
JAM BASE, the key facility of Grand Green Osaka, opened. Governor Yoshimura also came to the event to ale, “Osaka is a city that takes on more and more challenges, even if they fail.”
On September 6, an advance opening ceremony was held at “Grand Green Osaka,” the second phase of the Umekita area north of JR Osaka Station, and “JAM BASE,” the core facility of the area, opened at the same time. JAM BASE is a base for students, entrepreneurs, universities, research institutes, start-ups, venture capitalists, and local…
Hankyu Express offers special two-day “8-9 (Hankyu) Festival Days” for domestic and international travel, including 4 days in Taiwan for 28,900 yen in September.
Hankyu Express will hold a web-only individual travel campaign “8-9 (Hankyu) Festival Day” from September 8 to 9. When the campaign was conducted for domestic travel in July and August, there were over 3,500 reservations in August, all of which exceeded expectations. Therefore, this time (September), the company will add overseas travel to the campaign,…
USJ’s Harry Potter area for Halloween will be visited by the “Death Eaters” for the first time in 8 years! Battles with villagers and special food!
Universal Studios Japan will hold “Death Eater – Crisis in Hogsmeade” at “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter” from September 6 to November 4 as a limited-time fall entertainment. At this event, the first in eight years, the “Death Eaters” will descend and battle the villagers of Hogsmeade in front of the guests. The “Mark…
New Era’s 2024AW bag collection includes large and medium backpacks/waistbags/shoulder bags
New Era Japan will launch its new bag collection for the 2024 fall/winter season on September 13. The bag collection uses 1680D (denier) polyester fabric as its main fabric, which is lightweight and durable. Large and medium-sized backpacks such as the Box Pack (11,000 yen) and Campus Pack (9,350 yen), which feature a box silhouette,…
Transfer Guide, began providing real-time approach and delay information for Kyushu Sanko Bus, Sanko Bus, and Kumamoto City Bus.
LINE Yahoo has started providing real-time approach and delay information for Kyushu Sanko Bus, Sanko Bus, and Kumamoto City Bus on its smartphone application “Yahoo! This is based on the open data of “Bus Kitakuma-san”. If a route of one of the three companies is on the user’s searched route, the system automatically displays information…