Category: travelling

USJ “Detective Conan World” Food & Goods Information Announced. The “Criminal Chase! Bread Bowl Beef Stew” etc.

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Universal Studios Japan has announced the limited-time food and goods that will appear in “Detective Conan World,” the first program of “Universal Cool Japan 2025. Special foods for the limited time only include a generous portion of spicy beef stew, “Culprit Chase! Bread Bowl Beef Stew ~Spicy Tomato~” and “Ikkee… Conan’s Passion & Lemon Drink”…

Oedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Sendai Sakunami opens in April. Takasenkaku Iwamatsu Ryokan to be renewed.

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Oedo Onsen Monogatari Hotels & Resorts will renovate the Takasenkaku Iwamatsu Ryokan in Sakunami Onsen, Sendai, and reopen the Oedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Sendai Sakunami (16 Motoki Sakunami, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture) in April. This will be the fifth hot spring hotel in the Oedo Onsen Monogatari Group in Miyagi Prefecture, following TAOYA Akiu,…

AEON TOWN Higashi Urawa” is to open in Midori Ward, Saitama City. It is scheduled to open in the spring of 2026 with approximately 20 stores.

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AEON TOWN has decided to open a shopping center “AEON TOWN Higashi Urawa” (1-1-6 Higashi Urawa, Midori-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture) in Midori-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture. The opening is scheduled for spring 2026. The planned site is located 50m north of Higashiurawa Station on the JR Musashino Line. The concept is “Wellness Station” as…

Hanamaru Udon relocates its headquarters to Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture! Aiming for Marugame Seimen branding? We visited the site.

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Success for “Shizusan” too, local flavor. What are the advantages of a local brand? The image of “local brand (in Hanamaru’s case, Sanuki udon) from the home of udon” that Hanamaru Udon is trying to obtain by relocating its headquarters is something that all udon chain companies, in particular, want to have. This is because…

Snow Peak releases its third product from “Camper’s Table”. Green Curry/Carbonara Sauce/Butter Chicken Curry

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Snow Peak will release the third product from its “Camper’s Table,” a food product line created from the camper’s perspective. Green Curry and Pasta Sauce (Carbonara Sauce) will be released on January 17, followed by Butter Chicken Curry on February 7. The products will be available at Snow Peak directly-managed stores, some Snow Peak stores,…

OMO5 Tokyo Gotanda to hold “Sakura Yurari Yoru no Cafe,” a cherry blossom-themed cream soda and pudding event for guests only.

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Hoshino Resort will hold “Sakura Yurari Yoru no Cafe,” a limited event for guests to taste cream soda and pudding at OMO5 Tokyo Gotanda (8-4-13 Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Kyoto). The event will run from March 3 to April 25. The cream soda and pudding were made with the cooperation of the Gotanda patisserie “LES CACAO. The…

Nippori-Toneri Liner, February 3 timetable revision. Increased trains in the Nippori direction on weekday off-peak and Saturday and holiday mornings.

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The number of Nippori-bound trains will be increased during off-peak hours (6:00 and 9:00 a.m.) as well as from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. on weekends and holidays in order to ease congestion during the weekday morning rush hours. The Tokyo Metropolitan Transportation Bureau will revise the Nippori-Toneri Liner schedule on February 3. Number of services…

Gundi, the “Fairy of the Desert,” can be seen only at two facilities in Japan. Exhibit begins at the Adachi City Biological Park.

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On January 18, Adachi Ward will begin exhibiting Gundi, a diurnal rodent that lives in rocky areas in North Africa, at the Adachi Ward Biological Park (2-17-1 Hokima, Adachi-ku, Tokyo). This is the third time in Japan that Gundi has been exhibited in a zoo. Currently, the only facilities in Japan where Gundi can be…