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People using Nippon Hotel Co.’s travel lodging package can spend time at this room at Hotel Metropolitan in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district. (Provided by Nippon Hotel Co.)
Struggling hotel operators are ramping up efforts to lure in guests looking for longer stays and seeking to use the rooms as temporary residences or telework offices.
Hotels are scrambling to generate as much profit as possible as the novel coronavirus crisis keeps its usual customer base away, which has prompted a string of innovative promotional packages amid the pandemic.
The trend toward introducing longer-stay options began to take off on Feb. 1, when Imperial Hotel Tokyo, located in the capital’s Uchisaiwaicho district, unveiled a new 30-night extended-stay package for 360,000 yen ($3,280).
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JR East opens 1st overseas Honey s Bar juice stand in Singapore
April 16, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
This photo shows a variety of fresh juice and other items available at JR East s Honey s Bar Honey & Fresh Juice stand in Singapore. (Photo courtesy of East Japan Railway Co./NNA/Kyodo) SINGAPORE (NNA/Kyodo) East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, on Thursday opened the first overseas outlet of its Honey s Bar Honey & Fresh Juice stand chain in Singapore under a deal with Ya Kun International Pte. Ltd., the operator of the popular Ya Kun Kaya Toast store chain. The new shop offering varied original mixed juices is located in the Jurong Point Shopping Centre and run by JRE Ya Kun Food Service Pte. Ltd., a joint venture between JR East Business Development SEA Pte. Ltd. and Ya Kun International.
Men no ishi in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, in November 2014 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The village of Minamiaso in Kumamoto Prefecture is home to a hanging boulder that remained precariously balanced midair at the mouth of a cavern on Mount Gairinzan.
Because nothing seemed capable of knocking this boulder off its post, it came to be called men no ishi, meaning the stone is safe from a fall or any unfortunate outcome.
However, it did finally fall five years ago, much to the disappointment of villagers. It was dislodged by the main tremor of the Kumamoto Earthquakes of 2016. We used to promote this stone as a lucky charm for school entrance test candidates, job seekers and election candidates praying for success, said Isao Kashiwada, 80, a local hiking guide.