Prince Resorts Hawaii Inc. is offering a time sale of up to 25% off basic room rates at the Prince Waikiki hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The sale ends April 30. The “After all, Hawaii” plan offers up to 25% off the basic “Now Hawaii” plan, with guaranteed early check-in and bed type request, and a…

Grapestone will reopen its first ever official Moomin patisserie, MOOMIN SHOP PATISSERIE, as a pop-up store at Gransta Tokyo in the JR Tokyo Station ticket gates. The period is from April 1 to 21. The company has developed a line of comforting sweets inspired by the Moomins’ peaceful life surrounded by nature. The signature “Cream…

Only “Domestic Lodging” service is available. Reservations made through Rakuten Pack (airline ticket + accommodation/shinkansen/express train + accommodation) and Rakuten Travel’s foreign language website (inbound website) are not applicable. Also, reservations for consecutive nights are not accepted (only single-day reservations are accepted). Rakuten Travel will resume sales of “Hokuriku Oenwari” in Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures…

IHG Hotels & Resorts operates 19 hotel brands with more than 6,300 hotels in over 100 countries. In Japan, IHG Hotels & Resorts currently operates about 47 hotels under seven brands from Hokkaido to Okinawa (as of March 2024). For this interview, we asked Mr. Yuji Koyanagi, General Manager of ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Sapporo,…

The Hankyu Umeda main store (8-7 Kakudacho, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture) will hold “Moomin Market 2024” for the first time in Japan from March 27 to April 1. At the venue with a theme of refreshment and a forest image, various Mooming goods will be on sale, including the event-exclusive “Embroidered Can Badge Collection”…

Even in minus 12 degrees Celsius, students commute to school 40 km away! Demand for buses to school The buses are busiest when they depart from Itutora Station at 6:13 a.m. for Higashi-Sukagoshi Station (connecting to the train bound for Furano Station). Minami Furano high school students commute to Furano City, 40 km away, by…

Kawagoe Prince Hotel (1-22 Shintomi-cho, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture), operated by Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide, has renewed the Moomin Valley Park-approved concept room “Moomin Special Room Snufkin Version” and will sell only one room per day from April 1. Reservations will be accepted on the hotel’s official website from 12:00 p.m. on March 26. The…

The Kinnikuman Museum Production Committee will open its first permanent exhibition hall, the Kinnikuman Museum (5-2-15 Otemachi, Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture), in late April. The “Kinnikuman” series, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1979 and continues in Weekly Playboy/Shukupre NEWS, is a long-running fighting manga that will celebrate its 45th anniversary in 2024. The…

Odakyu Corporation, Tokyo Metro, and Tokyu Land Corporation announced that they have begun construction of a new building in “Ward A,” a joint project by the three companies in the Shinjuku Station West Exit Area Development Plan. This project aims to develop the infrastructure to realize the “Shinjuku Grand Terminal” promoted by the Tokyo Metropolitan…