Mitsui Outlet Parks to Hold Year-end and New Year’s Sale at Five Facilities in the Kanto Region, Offering Up to 80% Off. Pre-sale of grab bags also available.

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Mitsui Outlet Park will hold its semi-annual “SUPER OUTLET SALE” at its five Kanto facilities in Kisarazu, Iruma, Makuhari, Tama-Minami-Osawa, and Yokohama Bayside. The period is from December 26 to January 21, 2024. A total of approximately 530 stores will participate in this year’s sale, offering up to 80% off winter items that can be…

Kinokuniya offers a total of 10 colors of “endless pattern bags” that are small and compact. On sale in some stores due to popular demand.

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Kinokuniya will release the Endless Pattern Bag (1,650 yen), which is currently on pre-sale at Kinokuniya’s official online store, at select stores on December 14. Eco bags in a total of 10 colors with the KINOKUNIYA logo design. The bag can be loosely slung over the shoulder so that both hands can be used freely,…

A total of 50 people will win preview invitations to Tokyo DisneySea “Fantasy Springs” before its opening! Buy a Disney book and enter!

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Kodansha will launch a preview invitation campaign for Fantasy Springs, the new theme port at Tokyo DisneySea that will open on June 6, 2024. A total of 25 pairs of 50 winners will be drawn from among those who purchase eligible Disney books to receive a Preview Passport, which allows them to enter Fantasy Springs…

JR Tokai’s new commercial starring Kento Kaku depicts “the moment you meet the person you want to meet” in the “Let’s meet” Christmas version.

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On December 12, JR Tokai released a new commercial featuring actor Kento Kaku, titled “To All the People I Want to Meet. The TV commercial has been running since this spring under the theme of the song “Let’s meet,” sung by UA, and this time it is arranged for the year-end and Christmas season. This…

What would happen to the Shinkansen if a major disaster occurred? We visited the “No.2 Control Center” in Osaka, which is responsible for train control as a backup in case of emergency.

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On December 9, JR Tokai, JR West, and JR Kyushu released to the press a video of train control operations conducted from the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen No. 2 Control Center. Normally, train operations are controlled at the Shinkansen Control Center in Tokyo, but once a year, train control is actually performed at the No….

Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo, red seal book/mug/tri-colored Daruma doll, etc. named after the year 2024 “Dragon”.

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The mugs feature the dragon as the Starbucks Reserve’s symbolic star and constellation, and when the two colors are placed side by side, each dragon appears to be facing the other. Red Seal Book and Band Starbucks Reserve Red Seal Book, Sakura Cask (4,000 yen) Starbucks Reserve Red Seal Book: Chinese Zodiac Dragon (4,000 yen)…

Yama-kei Publishers’ “Low Mountain Hiking Outing Support Campaign” for a chance to win outdoor goods worth a total of 250,000 yen

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Yama-kei Publisher is running the “Low Mountain Hiking Outing Support Campaign” on its mountain stamp rally application “Yamasta” (Android/iOS version). If you visit the campaign’s target low-altitude mountains between December 1 and 23:59 on March 20, 2024, and earn stamps or complete the stamp rally, you will win popular outdoor goods worth a total of…

Akafuku “Isuzu Chaya” opens first store in Nagoya. Selling new strawberry rice cakes, fresh dorayaki and other Japanese sweets.

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Akafuku will open a Japanese and Western confectionery store “Isuzu Chaya” at a special venue in the Japanese confectionery section on the basement floor of JR Nagoya Takashimaya (1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture). The store will be open from November 29 to January 9, 2024. In addition to the new series “San SUN…