Category: travelling

Sunshine Aquarium will hold a special nighttime event, “TERROR Night Aquarium,” which focuses on the fear of creatures that do not usually attract attention. The event will run from September 8 to November 26. Through explanatory panels and videos, creatures that are frightening in appearance and predatory methods, as well as creatures with hidden and…

Mori Trust and Marriott International will open the Shisui Luxury Collection Hotel Nara (62 Noborioji-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture) in Nara Park on August 29. In 2016, Nara Prefecture announced its policy to lease the nearby area where the public building, Yoshijoen, and other buildings are located as a hotel site. The hotel will open…

On August 28, HIKIDASHI launched the Mashiko ware collection featuring the Disney character “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” at its online store. The brand “MASHICO,” a traditional Mashiko pottery brand from Tochigi Prefecture, will be handling the lineup, which will focus on tableware. The lineup includes plates and tumblers. Carefully produced by Mashiko pottery craftsmen, the…

ANA and POLA will sell Cosmology, a skincare brand jointly developed by the two companies, at POLA stores nationwide and at duty-free corners in airports on October 1, and through the online store “ANA Shopping A-style” from October 12 and in-flight sales (reservation required) from November 1. In-flight sales (by reservation only) will also begin…

On August 26, Hilton Japan, Korea, and Micronesia held the grand opening of Hilton Okinawa Miyakojima Resort (550-7 Hirara Kugai, Miyakojima City, Okinawa Prefecture), its first foray into the remote islands of Japan. The first beach resort hotel developed by Mitsubishi Estate and Kajima Corporation, it is located in the Tulliver area surrounded by coral…

Hilton has announced plans to open the Canopy by Hilton Okinawa Miyakojima Resort in the spring of 2026. This boutique hotel will be located adjacent to the Hilton Okinawa Miyakojima Resort, which will open in June 2023, and will be the first entry of the “Canopy by Hilton” brand into the Asia-Pacific region. The hotel…

JR West will hold a “Get 1,000 points with ICOCA for Apple Pay” campaign from August 28 to October 15! Campaign” from August 28 to October 15. Points will be awarded in late November. To earn the points, you need to enter through the WESTER application. To enter, you must issue a new Apple Pay…

Disney Animation Immersive Experience,” currently on view at Mori Arts Center Gallery & Sky Gallery, has been extended through September 18. It will open in North America in December 2022, and will run from April in Roppongi, Tokyo. Japan is the first country where this event, created by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Lighthouse Immersive…

Yahoo! Weather, an app for smartphones (iOS version), began offering a feature that visually shows the presence and transition of linear precipitation zones in its rain cloud radar; the Android version was launched earlier in July. A linear precipitation zone is a phenomenon that brings torrential rainfall over a wide area, and caused extensive damage…

AEON MALL will open “Jiyugaoka du Aone” (2-15-4 Jiyugaoka, Meguro-ku, Tokyo) on October 20. This commercial facility with two underground floors and four floors above ground was built on the former site of the Peacock Store supermarket. Peacock Store will reopen on the second underground floor. In addition, 25 specialty stores and restaurants will operate…