The Creative Light Yokohama Executive Committee will conduct “THE YOKOHAMA ILLUMINATION,” a campaign linking 42 illumination events (as of October 7) at tourist spots, commercial facilities, and shopping streets in the waterfront area of central Yokohama from November through February 2026. Yokohama will be the first metropolitan area to be selected as one of Japan’s…
AIR JAPAN to operate 2 round trips per day on the Narita – Seoul route during the year-end and New Year holidays. Increased flights are now on sale.
Air Japan will add one round-trip flight on its Narita-Incheon (Seoul) route from December 19 to January 3, 2026. Ticket sales have also begun. The additional flights will depart from Narita at 12:50 p.m. and arrive at Incheon at 15:30 p.m. and from Incheon at 17:10 p.m. and arrive at Narita at 19:40 p.m. Together…
Condominium-style ocean resort hotel in Motobu-cho, northern Okinawa Main Island, scheduled to open in spring 2028.
Maeda Sangyo Hotels will open “QUILL RESORT OKINAWA condominium hotel” in the spring of 2028. Located in Motobu-cho in the northern part of Okinawa’s main island, it is approximately 99 minutes by car from Naha Airport via Okinawa Expressway. It is a condominium-type ocean resort hotel with a total of 230 rooms surrounded by the…
Seven Limited “Kinokuniya” Wallet Shoulder Bag Appendix! MonoMax November extra issue on sale today!
Takarajimasya will release the November 2025 extra issue of “MonoMax” on October 9. It will be priced at 1,390 yen and will be available exclusively at Seven-Eleven and Seven Net Shopping. The extra issue is accompanied by a two-layered wallet shoulder bag in collaboration with Kinokuniya. It measures approximately 11 x 18.5 x 5 cm…
Alpine Outdoors commemorates its 50,000th unit milestone with a limited edition “Aluminum Unit Table” model. Options are now available.
Alpen will release the “Aluminum Unit Table 110 Special” from its private brand “Alpen Outdoors” on October 17. This is a limited edition of 500 units with serial numbers, commemorating the cumulative sales of aluminum unit tables exceeding 50,000 units. The aluminum unit table is a popular product with eight removable tops and features such…
Disney Resort Line to Hold Christmas Stamp Rally. Some cars will be decorated in holiday style!
The Disney Resort Line will be implementing a Disney Christmas-linked program from November 11 to December 25. Newly announced details include decorations and stickers on the “Disney Christmas Liner” trains and a stamp rally. The Disney Christmas Liner features Christmas colors such as green, red, and gold, and decorations with snowflake designs scattered on a…
Tips for Rail Travel” by Takashi Inoue] Rail Travel and Smartphones
QR tickets and MaaS cases are increasing If this were a transportation IC, there would be the option of using a physical IC card as well as “mobile XX” using a smartphone. However, the situation is different when using QR codes. We have previously introduced JR East’s “Ekinet Q-Tike” and JR Shikoku’s “Shikoku Smart Ekichan”…
Philips 72-blade dry/wet electric shaver at half price. 150,000 cuts per minute, with cordless automatic cleaner.
Amazon (Amazon Japan) is offering the Philips S9696/50 electric shaver on sale during Prime Thanksgiving. Normally priced at 41,800 yen, it is 50% off at 20,800 yen at the time of writing. A rechargeable dry/wet shaver with 72 blades that cut 150,000 times per minute, the 360-D flex head follows the curvature of the face,…
Kanto Railway commemorative tickets for Chikusei City x IMAS collaboration. 1,000 yen for a set of hard tickets from 3 stations in the city.
Kanto Railway will release “Chikusei City x “THE iDOLM@STER” series collaboration commemorative tickets” on October 11. The tickets will be handled from the first departure at Shimodate Station and cost 1,000 yen. As part of a collaboration project between Chikusei City and the “THE iDOLM@STER” series, both of which are celebrating their 20th anniversary, Kanto…
JR announces details of various discounts after round-trip and consecutive tickets are sold at the end of the day. Zipangu and student discount tickets can be purchased up to two one-way tickets with one discount coupon.
JR Group announced March 13 as the scheduled end date for the sale of round-trip and consecutive train tickets in March 2026, and also disclosed the handling of various discounts. Round-trip/consecutive tickets purchased by March 13th can be used until the end of the validity period, and tickets changed after March 14th will also be…