Tokyo
Culture
2020.02.14
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics is coming soon. I believe that many tourists and sports fans at home and abroad are looking forward to this quadrennial World Sports Festival. In order to meet the 2020 Olympic Games, various renovations and constructions are being carried out throughout Japan, so that tourists from all over the world can enjoy sightseeing and understand Japan in addition to enjoying sports competitions.
Actually, Tokyo had hosted the Olympic Games in 1964. At that time, the streets of Tokyo believed that you must be hard to imagine. To this end, the Shibuya District Office held a special exhibition of commemorative photos of the Olympics. Special photo exhibitions on the street, etc. If you are visiting Shibuya, you may wish to watch and experience the changes of the times, and look forward to the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics together!!
| Duration: | January 16-March 19, 2020 *Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Closed on February 5 |
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| Time: | 10:00-17:00 |
| Admission fee: | Free |
The first exhibition
Special collections of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, the major arenas, and the Olympic Games information content held in Shibuya. The classic pictures full of history must make everyone feel the changes of the times, and also remember the heroic and handsome posture of the classic players at that time!
In addition, on the opening day of January 16, Ms. Ai Fukuhara will also be specially invited to hold a lecture and a special exhibition of Ms. Fukuhara’s photos. You can see and come in close contact with this all-Asian pool goddess. Please don’t miss it!
Duration: January 16 – February 4, 2020
Second exhibition
Paralympic Games Special Exhibition
Duration: February 6 – February 28, 2020
The third exhibition
Special exhibitions of selected sports events in Shibuya
Duration: March 2 – March 19, 2020
Communicate the charm of Nara Tree with four furniture workshops representing Yoshino.
Okinawa’s popular photographer Saio supports non-profit community
[Aoyama Flower Market] Auspicious Flowers to Celebrate the New Year and Popular Original New Year’s Decorations
Tsukiji Honganji Private & Private Tour Cruise Train “TRAIN SUITE Shikishima” Private
From Japan, the world’s first! An online Kintsugi matching platform, “Tsugutsugu,” that you can do at home!
Japanese tradition “Japanese paper hand-dyed kit”
Nara
Countrywide
Kagawa
Kyoto
Countrywide
[VMG HOTELS & UNIQUE VENUES] Experience activities incorporating brewing and fermentation culture from the Sawara merchant town hotel NIPPONIA in Chiba
Chiba
Yoshitaka Amano’s original work “ZAN” animation movie scheduled to be released worldwide after 2026
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The Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts will hold a collection exhibition “Festivals and crafts: Yamahoko parade around Raku ware tea bowls”
Kyoto
[Hoshinoya Okinawa] Introducing a plan where you can immerse yourself in the production of “Ryukyu Bingata” that reflects the climate of Okinawa
Okinawa
[Mataro dolls] New “Foil-pressed Series” of dolls based on white color is now on sale.
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[limited edition goods]Panda train tins, a candy tin with a panda driving a train & station platform, a panda hanging strap and a panda passenger, will be available.
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Matcha & Hojicha Afternoon Tea Set – Enjoy Sayama Tea” expresses the arrival of a new season with fresh green buds.
2024.04.17
【Hoshinoya Tokyo】”Summer Evening: Noryo Boat Asobi”, a luxurious event in which guests enjoy champagne and seasonal snacks on a chartered boat while gazing at the night view of Tokyo.
2024.04.15
The official audio guide to the Kumano Kodo and Ise Road has been released.
2024.04.12
[Kyoto Chanoyu Meihonotei] A cafe where you can experience matcha green tea in the tea room of the historical building Meihonotei opens in Kiyomizu, Kyoto.
2024.04.10
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden and Kiyosumi Teien Garden: “Hanashobu ga Musubu Sono Knot” at the famous iris viewing spot.
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Tokyo
Restaurant
Food
Hotel Metropolitan will hold the “Nagasaki Fair” from January 15, 2024 (Monday) at three of its restaurants: the all-day dining restaurant Crossadyne, the Japanese restaurant Hanamusashi, and the Shikisai Saryo Shunka.
Tokyo
Restaurant
Food
Ramen Izakaya Deniro is offering a collaboration with street-style ramen restaurant “No Good Neighbor” starting Thursday, December 7, 2023.
Aomori
Event
Hoshino Resort Aomoriya, in cooperation with local railroad company Aoimori Railway Co., will operate a sightseeing train service on Saturdays and Sundays only from January 20 to February 11, 2024, offering meals and local sake while enjoying Aomori’s snowy landscape.
Tokyo
Travel
Hoshinoya Tokyo, a Japanese-style inn located in Otemachi, Tokyo, will again this year host the “New Year Kabuki Stay” program, a two-day and one-night stay from January 5 to 26, 2024.
For people living in Edo, one of their New Year’s pleasures was to watch Kabuki, and it was a chic way to spend the New Year. Theatrical teahouses supported this way of enjoying Kabuki. In addition to arranging tickets to the theater, the teahouses delighted patrons by providing a complete range of services, including plot notes, tea, sweets, makunouchi box lunches, and snacks and drinks (*1). Hoshinoya Tokyo offers a stay to celebrate the New Year with hospitality similar to the theatrical teahouses of the time.
*1: Tomizawa, Yoshihide and Fujita, Yosuke (2012). The Latest Kabuki Dictionary. Kashiwa Shobo.
Tokyo
Travel
Event
From November 22 (Wed) to December 3 (Sun), 2023, an autumn foliage lighting event will be held at Shinjuku Gyoen. Following the cherry blossom event this spring, Shinjuku Gyoen and Naked will collaborate again this fall for the autumn foliage event. Shinjuku Gyoen, one of Tokyo’s most famous gardens, is one of the few places in the city where visitors can enjoy the autumn leaves. The 200-meter-long rows of plane trees, the best maple tree spot in the city, Momijiyama, and the “Middle Pond,” with its spectacular reflection in the pond, will offer a world where the autumn leaves of Shinjuku Gyoen and Naked’s art and food are fused together.
Kyoto
Event
Daitokuji Obai-in Temple “Kinshu Dinner” will be held on November 25 (Sat.) and 26 (Sun.), 2023, a two-day private event at Obai-in, the pagoda temple of Daitokuji Temple, known for its beautiful autumn foliage.
