East Japan Railway Company and Nagano City Public Transportation Revitalization and Revitalization Council will provide IC boarding service using “Regional Link IC Cards” for buses and other vehicles in the Nagano area from the spring of 2025. Until now, the Nagano region has operated the KURURU common IC card for buses, but Suica will also…

Jetstar Japan will resume its Narita-Manila route on December 15 for the first time in two years and nine months after suspending the service due to the new coronavirus. Accordingly, ticket sales also resumed on September 27. Fares start at ¥19,990 one-way without fuel surcharge. To commemorate the resumption of flights, a special one-way sale…

Toyama Prefecture has decided to name the new tourist route (commonly known as the Kurobe Route), which will be open to the public starting in 2024, the “Kurobe-Unazuki Canyon Route. The “Kurobe-Unazuki Canyon Route” is an approximately 18-km route connecting “Zelkova-daira,” the last stop of the Kurobe Gorge Railway, and the Kurobe Dam. Visitors can…

Korean Air will significantly increase flights on its Japan-Seoul route. Flights on the Narita-Incheon and Kansai International Airport-Incheon routes will increase to two daily flights each from October 11, while flights on the Centrair (Central Japan) – Incheon route will increase to five flights per week from November and seven flights per week from December….

Tokyo Metro has been distributing real-time congestion information for each train car on the “Tokyo Metro my!” application since July 2021, and now information on the Nanboku Line is newly available. With this addition, the congestion status of all Tokyo Metro lines will now be available. In addition to real-time on-board congestion, this function also…

AIRDO and Solaseed Air will establish a joint holding company, Regional Plus Wings, on October 3. To commemorate the establishment, a campaign to win round-trip tickets and original goods, as well as an in-flight service collaboration project, will be conducted. The details are as follows. Round-trip tickets and original goods will be given away by…

INAKA TOURISM will reopen on September 29 the Anabuki Residence (1-7-15 Jotomachi, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture), a luxury hotel in a renovated mansion remaining in the area. 70,000 yen/person/night including two meals for four persons; available for private use by one group (2 to 9 persons) per day. The hotel will be open from September…

The Japan Tourism Agency sees the “National Travel Support” as an opportunity to promote the dispersion of travel demand to weekdays, and will implement the “One more night on a weekday” campaign in cooperation with tourism-related businesses (travel agencies, lodging companies, and transportation companies). In addition, a special website to be launched in the future…

Imperial Enterprises has released the Seiko N700S Kamome Debut Commemorative Watch at the PREMICO online store. It is priced at 54,780 yen. The “N700S Kamome” debuted on September 23 as the Western Kyushu Shinkansen connecting Takeo Onsen to Nagasaki, designed by Eiji Mitooka, who has worked on many JR Kyushu trains, and whose commemorative watch…