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Zoff offers half-price blue light cut lenses. At stores nationwide until April 17.

By Editor in Chief on Wed Mar 19 2025

Zoff is running a “New Life Support Blue Light Cut Lens 50% Off Campaign” at its stores nationwide until April 17. During the period, “blue light cut lenses (1.55 spherical surface)” of the target products will be sold at half price, 1,100 yen (price after April 18 will be 2,200 yen). In addition, at the…

Hotel Kanazawa offers a luxurious dinner plan with a set meal of Japanese bluefin tuna. Whole tuna grilled in salted water and served in a kamameshi (rice casserole) pot.

By Editor in Chief on Wed Mar 19 2025

Hotel Kanazawa (1-1 Horikawa Shinmachi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture) has put on sale an overnight stay plan that includes a “Gorgeous Bluefin Tuna Gozen,” a dinner that allows guests to simultaneously enjoy the seasonal delicacies of Kanazawa and its high-end fish, bluefin tuna. Prices start at 18,200 yen per person per night with two meals….

JR’s Nagoya sweet “Piyorin” is now available as a doughnut! On sale from March 20 at SA/PAs in Tokai area, etc.

By Editor in Chief on Wed Mar 19 2025

Rainy Blue will release Piyoringu Baked Donuts (pudding flavor), a collaboration with JR Tokai Food Service’s original sweets “Piyoringu,” on March 20. The price is 972 yen (6 pieces). Available at highway SA/PAs and souvenir stores in the Tokai area. Piyorin is a fresh pastry made from Nagoya Cochin egg pudding, wrapped in bavarois and…

Japanese Retro “Suica no Penguin” Local Wood Strap. Chinatown in Kanagawa, and a pile of kohan in Niigata.

By Editor in Chief on Wed Mar 19 2025

JR East Trading will release “Suica no Penguin” local wood straps for Kanagawa and Niigata prefectures on March 21. Priced at 1,045 yen each. The Kanagawa Prefecture design is based on Yokohama Chinatown, and features a cute Suica penguin wearing a Chinese-style hat and holding a steamed meat bun. Niigata Prefecture features the Suica penguin’s…

Hotel Route-Inn Grand Moriya Ekimae opens. 203 rooms in total, 3-minute walk from the station, and a large hot spring bath with sauna.

By Editor in Chief on Tue Mar 18 2025

Route Inn Japan opened the Hotel Route Inn Grand Moriya Ekimae (2-17-8 Chuo, Moriya, Ibaraki), its 12th location in Ibaraki Prefecture, on March 15. Located approximately 3 minutes on foot from Moriya Station and 10 minutes by car from the Yawara Interchange on the Joban Expressway. The eight-story building has a total of 203 rooms,…

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