Navitime adds travel consultation function using generated AI, travel planning and reservation service that suggests spots according to your preferences

NAVITIME Japan has started providing a natural language chat-style travel consultation function using generative AI with "NAVITIME Travel AI." Through interaction with AI, it is possible to search and suggest…

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A special tour in Kurobe Gorge in winter, including a trolley ride across the snowy Niyamabiko Bridge and a tour of the locomotive inspection and repair depot.

From January to February 2025, the Kurobe Gorge Trolley Train will be holding a ``Winter Kurobe Gorge Premium Tour'' that will take you across the Shin-Yamabiko Bridge in a silver-white…

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Navitime’s charter bus itinerary creation service provides “Tourist Guide Page” function, automatically created tourist information for tour participants

NAVITIME Japan has added a ``Tourist Guide Page'' function to ``Itinerary Cloud by NAVITIME,'' a web service for creating itineraries for chartered buses. It extracts sightseeing spots and stops and…

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Canon disseminates the story of “Japanese Heritage” domestically and internationally through SNS, etc., and is commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs

Canon Marketing Japan was commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to carry out a project to communicate the appeal of Japanese heritage using cross-media. We will disseminate the appeal…

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Innovator training project begins in western Tokyo and Tama region, tourism business network also promotes guide training for visitors to Japan

"TAMA INNOVATION PROGRAM" was launched to foster innovators in the western Tokyo/Tama area. The three-day course is divided into four categories: inbound tourism, regional problem solving, forest utilization, and healthcare,…

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Search growth rate ranking for hot spring resorts, Shirabu Onsen in Yamagata Prefecture tops the list on “Yahoo! Search”, with “all-inclusive” being the trending keyword

Ranking of hot spring spots with increasing number of searchers on Yahoo! Search. 1st place goes to Shirabu Onsen in Yamagata Prefecture with a growth rate of 123.8%. Among search…

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What is “Edo Kaido”, a project that promotes wide-area excursions starting from Tokyo?

The Kanto Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will hold the ``Edo Kaido Wandering Journey'' regional PR product exhibition as a kick-off event to strengthen…

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Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Trolley Bus counts down to final service at the end of November, with cumulative ridership reaching 19.9 million people

The Tateyama Tunnel Trolley Bus, which connects Murodo and Daikanbo on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, will run for the last time on November 30, 2024. Japan's last trolleybus. Source…

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Annual number of visitors to leisure facilities in 2023, the highest rate of growth is Osaka’s “Floating Garden Observatory”, and facilities with a higher proportion of foreign visitors have higher growth rates

Sogo Unicom conducted an independent survey on the actual number of customers at leisure facilities nationwide in 2023. In the November issue of "Monthly Leisure Industry Materials", traffic data by…

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Business to strengthen taxi supply in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, introduction of taxi apps and Japanese version of ride-sharing increased number of vehicles operating at peak hours by 30%

The taxi app GO revealed the results of the "Karuizawa Taxi Supply Strengthening Project" being implemented in Karuizawa Town, Nagano Prefecture. During the peak hours of the Obon period, the…

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