Category: Japan

Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide will open Prince Smart Inn Nagoya Sakae in early 2024. Prince Smart Inn is a hotel brand that specializes in lodging, introducing ICT and AI technologies and providing seamless services using smartphones and other devices. This time, the company will be entrusted with the management of a hotel that closed in…

Today finally marks the grand opening of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo Making of Harry Potter (1-1-7 Kasuga-cho, Nerima-ku, Tokyo). The official Twitter (@wbtourtokyo) has come up with a cool surprise. If you like tweets with “#HarryPotterTour”, that “Golden Snitch” will appear. The golden snitch, familiar from the popular wizarding world sport of Quidditch,…

The famous anglerfish cuisine of Oarai Town, located on the Pacific Ocean to the east of Mito City, is so well known as a representative of Ibaraki’s winter delicacies that it is often referred to as “the fugu of the west and the anglerfish of the east. The “Ankou Sansanbento” (Ankou Meal Lunchbox) is an…

Chubu Snow Alliance will open “Hirugano Picnic Garden,” a highland resort where visitors can enjoy outdoor activities, at Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort (4670-75 Hirugano, Takawase-cho, Gujo, Gifu Prefecture) on July 15. The Flower Area, located at an elevation of 1,000 meters above sea level, is home to 25,000 begonia plants, the largest in Japan, 6,000…

As a shared office business “STATION WORK,” JR East is expanding its network throughout Japan by developing the private booth “STATION BOOTH” and partnering with co-working spaces and hotel shared offices. With the addition of the two coworking facilities that began partnering on June 15, “STATIO WORK” is now available at all Shinkansen stations in…

I participated in a 3-day/2-night photography experience organized by GoPro, an action cam company. The setting was Kohama Island, Okinawa Prefecture. This time, we used the GoPro HERO11 Black, which was introduced in September 2022, various mounts and accessories, and Quik, an application that allows users to edit videos shot with the GoPro and control…

Kyoritsu Maintenance will reopen the Kannonzaki Keikyu Hotel, which ceased operations in September 2022, as Kyoritsu Resort “La Vista Kannonzaki Terrace” (2-1157-2, Hashimizu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture) on August 4. Prior to this, lodging reservations will be accepted starting at 3:00 p.m. on June 26. It is a 10-minute bus ride or 7-minute cab ride from…

JR Tokai announced that the new arrival and departure chimes for the Tokaido Shinkansen will be switched all together on July 21. The new chime is “Aini Ikou” (composed by Taisei Iwasaki and sung by UA), the theme song of the commercial. The new commercial, “Let’s meet, and we will change today.” depicts a businessman,…

Idemitsu Kosan is running a campaign in which 10,000 people will win a “Usa Sunshade,” a collaboration with the outdoor brand DOD. The campaign will run from June 15 to July 31. During the period, reward tickets will be granted by completing missions based on usage with Idemitsu’s “Drive On” application, and each ticket will…

Senshukai’s mail-order business Belle Maison will release a limited edition T-shirt inspired by the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in “Harry Potter” on Belle Maison Net on June 16. The lineup includes two products: the “Kids 4 Dorm Color Matching Short-Sleeved T-Shirt for Parents and Children” (1980 yen) and the “Unisex 4 Dorm Color…