Expedia is offering a Black Friday sale to book travel at a discount. The sale runs from November 16-29 and covers stays through December 31, 2024. Members receive a 30% or more discount on domestic and international lodging and package (airfare + accommodations) reservations. The service is available worldwide and handles airline tickets from more…

Hokkaido and Trustbank have released a special feature content on “Furusato Choice” featuring popular thank-you gifts and hidden gems from each municipality. The town of Pibu, home of Yumepirika, is offering the fruit mini-tomato “Gerba,” which won the 2023 Vegetable Sommelier Summit Gold Award. Donations start at 14,000 yen and will be shipped from mid-July…

LINE Yahoo extended the forecast time of the Yahoo! Weather app’s “Rain and Snow Radar” up to 15 hours ahead, and began offering a “snow depth mode” that shows snow accumulation. Rain/Snow Radar is a function that shows predicted snowfall and rainfall amounts on a map with four levels of color-coding for each. it has…

JCB will conduct “JCB Point Up Festival 2023-24”, a high point multiplier campaign exclusively for “JCB Original Series”. The campaign will run from November 16 to March 15, 2024. This year, the program has been expanded to include convenience stores, supermarkets, and drugstores, and a new food and beverage industry has been added, with a…

Eyeglass brand Zoff has announced the “Disney Collection created by Zoff “& YOU””. It will go on sale on November 17 at Zoff stores nationwide and DisneyStore.jp. The new collection was created in collaboration with fans under the theme of “Dream Disney Design Glasses Created with Fans. The new collection features designs that reflect the…

ANA and Peach Aviation are running a Peach point giveaway campaign and time sale on the Narita – Honolulu route from November 16-22. Starting December 6, all 14 weekly round-trip flights on the Narita – Honolulu route will be operated by the “FLYING HONU” Airbus A380 aircraft, which will provide a record number of seats…

Potomac will offer an overnight stay plan with a Christmas dinner course at PEANUTS HOTEL (1-22-2 Nakayamate-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture). The period is from December 1 to 25, and the rate is room charge plus 12,100 yen. The dinner will be served at “PEANUTS DINER Kobe” on the 3rd floor. The Christmas-like candlelight…

After enjoying a tour and lunch at the Sydney Opera House, I visited the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Both the main building and the new building are so large that it would take a whole day to visit them all, but with the exception of a few special exhibits, admission is free. Main…

APA Hotel opened “APA Hotel ” (2-26-3 Hatchobori, Chuo-ku, Tokyo). The hotel has introduced a number of facilities for foreign visitors to Japan, such as English-language BBC News main audio and pictograms on information signs. The hotel will also adopt updates for the first time as a “new urban hotel,” such as larger capacity washbasins…

On November 15, Saudi Arabia unveiled the design for the Saudi Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo. According to Mr. Almazyad Osman, the pavilion director and representative of the government in the display area, the Saudi Pavilion will be a recreation of a traditional Saudi street, with each corner of the market offering a different…