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Muji's First Japan Hotel To Be A Test Bed For New Business

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NIKKEI ASIA
 
TOKYO -- Minimalist Japanese retailer Muji will open its first domestic hotel in the heart of Tokyo's ritziest shopping district on Thursday.
 
Muji Hotel Ginza and flagship store to open in ritzy, tourist-heavy Tokyo district
The 79-room Muji Hotel Ginza will serve as a test lab fo...

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Sekisui House, Marriott to Open Roadside Stop Hotels

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Sekisui House Ltd. and major U.S. hotel chain Marriott International Inc. said Wednesday they will open hotels adjacent to “michi no eki” roadside rest and shopping facilities in cooperation with regional municipalities.
From autumn 2020, Sekisui House and Ma...

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Real Estate Japan Forms Alliance with Airbnb Japan to Promote Private Home Sharing

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO
Real Estate Japan Inc, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings Inc, Airbnb Japan Inc and matsuri technologies Inc have formed a comprehensive business alliance in the areas of private home sharing and residential leasing, with the aim of promoting the legal growth of private home ...

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Hotel Okura Plans to Reopen in September 2019, With Its Distinctive Main Lobby Fully Restored

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The Hotel Okura, one of the most prestigious hotels in Tokyo and located right next to the U.S. Embassy, will reopen in September 2019 after a ¥110 billion renovation.
The refurbishment includes the full restoration of the much-beloved main lobby, which sports an interior that combi...

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Smart Convenience Store Opens in Huis Ten Bosch Hotel

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
SASEBO, Nagasaki (Jiji Press) — An unmanned smart convenience store opened Tuesday in a hotel in the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
The store, called Smart Combini, is located near the reception counter in Henn-na Hotel (Strange Hote...

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Berth Of a New Era

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Spherical hotel rooms floating on the water are shown to the press at the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Tuesday. The theme park hopes to launch the new hospitality service this summer after conducting trial stays.
Plans are for the mobile capsule to...

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Oita Hotel to Close for 10 Days In a Row to Give Employees Time Off

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JAPAN TODAY
 
OITA - A popular hotel in southwestern Japan will close for 10 straight days in January at a cost of 200 million yen in revenues to give its employees time off, in the belief that the unusual measure will help to secure quality human resources.
Officials at the 647-room Suginoi Hote...

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Foreign Hotel Chains Target Regional Areas Ahead of Games

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The boom in new hotel openings that is under way in Tokyo, Osaka and other big cities ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games is now being felt in regional areas as well.
In particular, foreign luxury hotel chains have been opening new branches in provincial areas, d...

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