Category: Japan

Tokyo Metro and the Tokyo Metropolitan Transportation Bureau will expand the sales area of “Tokyo Subway Ticket,” a special ticket for travelers, to all areas of Japan except the Tokyo metropolitan area from November 1. The “Tokyo Subway Ticket” is a ticket that allows unlimited rides on all Tokyo Metro lines and all Toei Subway…

Air Seoul is holding a “Special Price Sale” starting October 27 to commemorate the increase of flights between Japan and Korea. The flight period is until March 25, 2023. The company plans to increase round-trip flights on the Narita-Incheon (Seoul) route and the Kansai International Airport-Incheon route to one round-trip flight per day from October…

Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is offering “Unshu mandarin orange picking” at 12 farms in three areas of the city. Blessed with a mild climate, Ito City specializes in citrus fruits such as mandarin oranges. The variety of citrus fruits harvested varies with the time of year, with “Onshu mandarins” usually in season from October to…

Tokyo DisneySea will release a new nighttime entertainment “Believe! ~Sea of Dreams~” TV commercial will be released on October 29. Prior to this, the new commercial was previewed on the official YouTube. The commercial condenses some of the show’s attractions into a 15-second film, such as the images projected on the walls of the Tokyo…

ANA FESTA released specially designed luggage tag-like stickers on October 27, 2012, in a tie-up between ANA and the TV anime “Blade of Oni No Kai”. They are 16 x 6.5 cm in size and priced at 330 yen each. On the front page are illustrations of five characters in ANA uniforms (co-pilot Sumijiro Kamakado,…

Oriental Land has revealed the names of the various areas and Disney hotels in the new Fantasy Springs theme port scheduled to open at Tokyo DisneySea in the spring of 2024. The theme of Fantasy Springs, the eighth to be created, is “A Disney Fantasy World Guided by a Magical Fountain. It will consist of…

Trustbank, which operates the comprehensive website “Furusato Choice,” will hold the “Furusato Choice Grand Thanksgiving Festival” at Pacifico Yokohama on November 12 and 13. The “Furusato Choice Great Appreciation Festival” is held annually with the concept of local governments and local businesses and producers expressing their gratitude to donors. This year’s event was held under…

YOHAKU Office has published “Anime 88 Pilgrimage” on its own media “QUON,” which promotes traditional Japanese culture, on the theme of pilgrimages to sacred anime sites and traditional local crafts. Japanese anime boasts worldwide popularity, and this project introduces the sacred places where the anime is set, likening them to a “pilgrimage”. This project introduces…

The Hanno City Federation of Shopping Centers will hold a stamp rally in conjunction with the broadcast of the anime “Yamanosume: Next Summit. The period is from November 5 to 27. Yamanosume” features a character from Hanno City, Saitama Prefecture. This time, limited-edition goods will be produced utilizing the newly-drawn Hanno City original illustrations and…

The Tokyo Branch of the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) will hold the “Safety Driver’s Challenge” for JAF members. The period is from November 11 to January 10, 2023. This is a joint project between the Traffic Department of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Automobile Safety Driving Center. Participants who complete the challenge will be…