Walt Disney Japan launched the “Winter Shiny Color” series from the Disney Store. The lineup includes standard plush toys and key chains. Prices range from 3,800 yen to 4,200 yen for the plush toys and 2,400 yen for the keychains. Keychains are priced at 2,400 yen each. Characters include Minnie Mouse, Stitch, and Young Oyster….
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Doraemon F’s Kitchen,” where Fujiko F. Fujio’s characters gather, opens in Shibuya.
Benelic will open “Doraemon F’s Kitchen,” a cafe themed on characters from Fujiko F. Fujio’s works, from December 12 to January 18, 2025. It will be located on the 2nd floor of RAYARD MIYASHITA PARK South (6-20-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo). In addition to selling dishes and goods inspired by the characters of “Doraemon,” “Perman,” “Kiteretsu…
3COINS, making drinking parties pop and cute with “horoiyoi” specifications! Glasses/muddlers/cooling bags/glass storage containers, etc.
3COINS will release “Horoiyoi meets 3COINS” tableware in collaboration with Suntory’s “Horoiyoi” on December 2. The collection, featuring pop art by illustrator an (@aooooo1995), includes a lineup of glasses, plates, and muddlers featuring the standard “White Sour,” “Lemon Mikan,” and “Momo” and the image character of each flavor. There is also a cold storage bag…
PORTER, the long-awaited black from the new “TANKER” line. Total of 40 models including shoulder bags
Yoshida Kaban will release a new black color from PORTER’s TANKER series on November 29. TANKER, inspired by the MA-1, was renewed in May to mark its 40th anniversary. It uses Ecodear N510, the world’s first 100% plant-derived nylon, which has been mass-produced in Japan while maintaining the same quality of strength, suppleness, and luster….
Mini wallet from Treasure Island and Kinokuniya. It can hold up to 20 cards and bills without folding.
On December 9, Takarajimasya will release a brand mook “KINOKUNIYA Mini Wallet Book,” which includes a mini wallet in collaboration with supermarket KINOKUNIYA. The price is 2,890 yen. It is bellows style and can hold up to 20 cards, has a coin purse, and can hold bills without folding. The size is 11 x 8…
Tohoku Shinkansen Yamabiko, Sendai-Tokyo launched “Shinkansen e-Ticket (JRE POINT Privilege)” for 5,000 points for one-way trip.
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) will launch the special rate “Shinkansen e-Ticket (JRE POINT Privilege)”. The number of points to exchange JRE POINT for Shinkansen e-Ticket (JRE POINT Privilege), which can be exchanged for Shinkansen e-Ticket, is limited to the “Yamabiko” train departing from or terminating at Sendai Station (standard car reserved seat only),…
ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Fukuoka” Recommended by Mr. Shibayama, a hotel staff member who knows local attractions.
IHG Hotels & Resorts operates 19 hotel brands with more than 6,400 hotels in over 100 countries. In Japan, IHG Hotels & Resorts currently operates approximately 47 hotels under seven brands from Hokkaido to Okinawa (as of June 30, 2024). For this interview, we asked Akira Shibayama, general manager of the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel…
Snow Peak opens “BBQ & Pizza Nagasaki Stadium City,” a take-out specialty restaurant. Meals, drinks and sweets menu with a sense of the outdoors.
Snow Peak will open “Snow Peak BBQ & Pizza Nagasaki Stadium City” on November 27. A new type of take-out specialty restaurant adjacent to Snow Peak Nagasaki Stadium City in Nagasaki Stadium City. The menu includes outdoor meals such as wood-fired pizza, spare ribs, and chicken legs, as well as handmade potato chips and franks…
Koji Inoue’s “Hints for Railway Travel”] To what extent can “time adjustments due to subsequent delays” be forgiven? Train Delay and Waiting for Connection and Disruption of Connection
When traveling abroad, stories sometimes come up about how they had to run at the airport because they were going to miss their connections due to delays, and the author has experienced this as well. The same thing happens in train travel. Latency and connection waiting If the itinerary only requires one train to get…
Hotel “CETRAY Nagoya (tentative name)” to open in spring 2026 in the redevelopment area of Nakagawa Canal. Total of 24 rooms, including Reston and hot bath sauna.
HORONIC will open its first new hotel in the Tokai region, tentatively named CETRAY Nagoya (tentative name), in the spring of 2026. Nagoya Station Kaihatsu, Chubu Civil Engineering, and MARU ARCHITECTURE are participating in the “NAKAGAWA CANAL DOORS (tentative name)” (opening in spring 2026), a development project in the Nakagawa Canal Horikome district, which aims…