Month: February 2026

Vietjet Air will increase the number of flights on its Hiroshima – Hanoi route to four round trips per week starting December 20. The service will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, with Saturdays added to the existing schedule, and will take approximately 4 hours and 50 minutes each way. To commemorate this flight…

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is subsidizing the purchase and installation of security equipment for private homes as part of the “FY2025 Tokyo Emergency Subsidy Program for the Purchase of Security Equipment, etc.”. In response to the increase in home invasions and burglaries, as typified by so-called “black market” burglaries, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is implementing…

Tobu Railway will begin using the new east exit ticket gates and new down platform at the Tokyo Skytree Station from the first train on December 7. In addition, the current East Exit ticket gates and down platform will be out of service at the end of the train service on December 6. The upper…

Amazon (Amazon Japan) is having a Black Friday sale on Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A30 sleep-specific earphones. Normally priced at 29,990 yen, they are 23% off at 22,990 yen at the time of writing. New model to be released on September 25. The world’s first fully wireless earbuds specialized for sleep are equipped with an adaptive…

Amazon (Amazon Japan) is offering a sale on the Anker Eufy Security eufyCam 2C 1-Cam Kit. Normally priced at 19,990 yen, it is 50% off at 9,990 yen at the time of writing. The duration of the sale is unknown, as there is no indication of a time sale or Black Friday sale. Security camera…

Shinki Bus will open the hands-on complex “MONZEN -Himeji Local Gateway” on the first and second floors of Cuel Himeji (1-4 Nishi Ekimae-cho, Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture) in March 2026. It was designed not only to increase tourism consumption in Himeji City and the Harima area, but also as a “local community base” where local…

CAPTAIN SWEETS BURGER, a sweet burger brand operated by Grapestone at JR Tokyo Station, will release a new product “Kirby’s Strawberry Burger Square Tote Bag Set” in collaboration with Kirby on December 1. The price is 3,150 yen. Kirby’s Strawberry Burger 6 pieces (with original sticker), a sweet treat consisting of strawberry milk-flavored overflowing chocolate…

ANA X has released part of the November campaign “ANA ni Kyun! campaign on the 29th of every month, and has released some of the details of the November campaign. This month, in conjunction with “ANA Black Friday,” the campaign will be extended to three days from November 28 to 30, which is longer than…

On November 25, JR East, PASMO, and the PASMO Council announced teppay, a code payment service for Mobile Suica and Mobile PASMO. The service will be available for Mobile Suica from the fall of 2026 and for Mobile PASMO from the spring of 2027. The teppay functionality will include code payments, balance transfers, and online…

IHG Hotels & Resorts operates 20 hotel brands with more than 6,800 hotels in more than 100 countries. In Japan, the company currently operates about 60 hotels under 10 brands from Hokkaido to Okinawa (as of November 2025). For this interview, we asked Mr. Masaru Kamiyama, general manager of ANA Holiday Inn Resort Karuizawa, about…