UN World Conference in Sendai Justin Velgus The 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be hosted in Sendai March 14th-18th, 2015.
Food Floresta Nature Donuts Meets Sanrio Kim Bergström During the month of July, Floresta Nature Donuts stores are offering themed donuts in collaboration with Sanrio characters Li...
Shopping Lush Japan's Halloween Offerings Kim Bergström The bath gurus at Lush have released a lineup of Halloween-themed products which are bound to add a little fun to this time o...
Planning JAL Increasing Flights Between San Diego and Tokyo Kim Bergström If you're based on the west coast of the United States, getting to Japan is set to become even easier. Japan Airlines will be...
Condé Nast Names Their Top 2023 Travel Spots Kim Bergström Hot on the heels of Lonely Planet publishing their Best in Travel lists for the coming year, Condé Nast Traveler recently rel...
JR Tokai Offers Maglev Rides Peter Sidell Japan Rail Tokai (JR Central) is offering demonstration rides on its magnetic levitation 'MagLev' trains in July and August
Activities Prince Takamatsu Memorial Cup Bonson Lam With the Rio Olympic Games just months away, it is time to warm up with the two Japanese sports featured at the games, being ...
JapanTravel Kicks Off Ambassador Program Edward Yagisawa In order to introduce Japan's charms to the world, JapanTravel partner Bryan Baier has been appointed as the Tourism PR Ambas...
Shizuoka City Bids For SF WorldCon Peter Sidell Shizuoka City in Japan is bidding to host the 2017 World Science Fiction convention.
Japan Makes Global Hotel Alliance's 2024 Destinations List Kim Bergström The Global Hotel Alliance (GHA) recently surveyed their Discovery loyalty program members on where they're dreaming of visiti...
Food Tokyo Banana & McDonalds to Collaborate Kim Bergström For a limited-time from late April, McDonalds stores across Japan will be serving up a Tokyo Banana flavored waffle cone.
Activities Araki: Sentimental Journey Exhibition Jerome Lee Nobuyoshi Araki's Sentimental Journey solo exhibition is now showing at IMA gallery, in conjunction with the concept store of...
Aomori "Seagull Shrine" Burned Down Justin Velgus On November 5th around 4:20am, there was a fire at Kabushima Shrine in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture. The blaze razed the main...
Activities Sendai Ignites its Inbound Tourism Justin Velgus The "Sendai Tourist Information Desk" opened December 10th, 2016 in order to share more information and promote activities in...
Transportation Finnair to Fly to Fukuoka Bonson Lam From May 8 2016 Finnair will fly direct from Helsinki to Fukuoka, the largest city in Kyushu, with excellent connections by t...
