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GO TO TRAVEL

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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 18, 2017
Menu offers opportunity to meet the meat
The "Meet Meat Promotion," which runs through May 31 at The Tokyo Station Hotel, is part of an ongoing dinner promotion under the concept of "sharing and enjoying meat dishes."
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WORLD
May 12, 2017
Airlines bracing for laptop ban on Europe-U.S. flights at peak season
Airline and travel-industry groups are quietly expressing concern about a plan under consideration by U.S. security authorities to prohibit passengers from carrying their laptop computers into the cabin on flights from Europe.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 11, 2017
Buffet offers chance to try authentic Peruvian cuisine
The ANA InterContinental Tokyo's second-floor Cascade Cafe is offering its first Peruvian buffet dinner through June 30.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 4, 2017
Bento offers perfect spring picnic
As part of several gourmet garden delights offered at the Tokyo Marriott Hotel, the Green Garden Terrace Box, which is a three-tiered lunch box wrapped in a furoshiki wrapping cloth, is a springtime treat available at the Terrace of Lounge & Dining G until May 31.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 27, 2017
Welcome the summer with cold craft beer
A craft beer event, "Hop & Eats," with live music will be held on May 14 at Tennoz Central Tower, Canal Garden, near the Tennoz Isle waterfront.
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 22, 2017
Tellmeclub's bankruptcy grounds discount travel services
On March 27, discount travel company Tellmeclub filed for bankruptcy while a number of its Japanese customers were still overseas on package tours.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 21, 2017
Colas, cigarettes: North Korea airline diversifies as threats mount of sanctions
Even after disembarking from North Korea's Air Koryo plane at Pyongyang airport, it is difficult to miss the airline's brand. The Air Koryo conglomerate makes cigarettes and fizzy drinks, besides owning a taxi fleet and gas stations — and all have the same flying crane logo as the carrier.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 21, 2017
Festive cakes fete children
From April 29 to May 7, the Royal Park Hotel is selling six different types of cakes to celebrate Children's Day on May 5.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2017
Time for a real passenger bill of rights
Americans have been mad as hell. Now, it seems, they're not going to take it anymore.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2017
Overbooking is a problem as old as the airline industry
Overbooking was the solution to the costly problem of 'no-shows' — people who reserved a seat but failed to board — that emerged in the late 1940s.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 15, 2017
Same same but different
'What will you do after you leave your job?'
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 13, 2017
Springtime dining in the 'garden of France'
La Tour d'Argent at The Hotel New Otani Tokyo has created a selection of food specialties inspired by the regional cuisine of France's Loire Valley. Two dinner courses, priced at ¥18,000 and ¥25,000 (excluding drinks, tax and service charge), are available until April 25 (closed Mondays).
BUSINESS / TRAVEL INSIDER
Apr 11, 2017
New Emirates routes; China Airlines milestone; JAL teams with American
New Emirates routes
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 6, 2017
Celebration of spring events
The Imperial Hotel Tokyo is offering a limited spring plan through April 25 for guests to celebrate school entrances. The wide variety of sweets and picnic boxes available at Gargantua, the hotel bakery on the first floor, is also perfect for hanami cherry blossom viewing parties.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 30, 2017
New rooms mark anniversary
Hotel Rose Garden Shinjuku, in commemorating its 20th anniversary, opened a new wing with 40 rooms on March 22.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 29, 2017
The psychological perils of a Japanese homestay
All the homestays I have done in my life — three of them — were psychologically traumatic in uniquely torturous ways.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 27, 2017
Discount travel agency Tellmeclub files for bankruptcy
Tokyo-based travel agency Tellmeclub filed for bankruptcy with the Tokyo District Court on Monday with liabilities estimated at ¥15.1 billion, including ¥9.9 billion relating to 36,000 travel contracts.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 25, 2017
Designer Mikio Sakabe: 'Fashion itself is the creation of newness'
Fashion designer on why there's no real difference between being young or old.
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WORLD
Mar 24, 2017
Cabin or hold? Tech ban latest step in bomb detection battle
A ban on large carry-on electronics on some international flights lays bare a high-stakes scientific battle between militant groups and security chiefs that has already dramatically altered airline travel, especially since the September 2001 attacks in the United States.

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