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  • Tokyo and Around Tokyo: Discover Japan’s Dazzling Winter Lights with TOBU’s Digital Ashikaga Flower Park Illumination Ticket

     Travellers can now enjoy one of Japan’s most celebrated winter attractions – Ashikaga Flower Park’s “Hikari no Hana no Niwa (‘The Garden of Illuminated Flowers’)” illumination – with TOBU’s new Digital Illumination Ticket, available on KKday from 15 November 2025 to 15 February 2026. The ticket bundles a discounted Tobu Railway round-trip fare with a discounted night-time admission, offering a co

  • Tokyo and Around Tokyo: Experience a Luxurious Private Room at TOKYO SKYTREE® with a Dedicated Guide

    A Premium Experience at the World’s Tallest Tower
    TOBU Top Tours Co., Ltd., is pleased to introduce a brand-new premium experience at TOKYO SKYTREE®, Japan’s tallest tower, in collaboration with TOBU TOWER SKYTREE Co., Ltd. and TOBU HOTEL MANAGEMENT Co., Ltd. This exclusive weekday-only tour offers domestic and international visitors a luxurious, private encounter with one of Tokyo’s most breat

  • Token-Operated Sake Service Launches at THE KANAYA TERRACE Cafe Inside Tobu Nikko Station, Featuring Local Sake from Tochigi Prefecture!

    Tobu Railway Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Sumida-ku, Tokyo) and Kanaya Hotel Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Nikko, Tochigi) will install a token-operated sake dispenser inside THE KANAYA TERRACE cafe, located inside Tobu Nikko Station. This new service, allowing customers to easily enjoy local Tochigi sake, will launch for a limited time beginning Friday, May 30, 2025. Through this service, customers,

  • Charming Ogawamachi Town, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, Announces Festivals for 2025

    About 90 minutes northwest of Tokyo's Ikebukuro Station, on the Tobu Tojo Line, Ogawamachi, in Saitama Prefecture, prospered as a bustling town with numerous markets during the Edo period. Often called a "Little Kyoto," it is today designated as "Saitama Prefecture's Historical Model District," where buildings such as Nagaya townhouses and warehouses still remain. Here, visitors can experience lai

  • TOKYO SKYTREE®, operated by Tobu Tower Skytree, is holding its first collaboration event with the TV animation "Pokémon."

    Pokemon Horizons Decorations
    The three-month-long extravaganza called "Pokémon Horizons: The Series POKÉMON in TOKYO SKYTREE®" is running from June 25 (Tuesday) to September 24 (Tuesday), 2024
    Pokemon Horizons Decorations
    TOKYO SKYTREE®, operated by Tobu Tower Skytree, is holding its first collaboration event with the TV animation "Pokémon." The three-month-long extravaganza called "Pokém

  • TOKYO SKYTREE®, the World's Tallest Freestanding Broadcast Tower, Makes Two Announcements:

    Sky Restaurant 634 (musashi) [1] Its "Sky Restaurant 634" Musashi Has Opened its Special Private "Grand Room" for Public Use, as of May 23, 2023[2] Its Sumida River Fireworks Festival Special Opening Night Event will be held on Saturday, July 27, 6:00-8:30PM at Skytree's Observation Deck, 350 Meters Above. Only 634 lucky advance registrants will be able to partake in this exclusive viewing of the

  • Tobu Railway's Hosts "Tokyo Downtown Tour: Bamboo Lighting."

    This Series of Bamboo Lighting Events Taking Place now, from November 9, 2023 to January 31, 2024, along the Sumida River Walk and in the "Soyokaze Hiroba" (Breeze Plaza) area of Sumida Park in Downtown "Shitamachi" Tokyo.
    The Sumida Riverwalk is the pedestrian walkway that opened in summer 2020 along Tobu Railway's Sumida River railroad bridge. From November 9, 2023 to January 31, 2024 it wil

  • TOKYO SKYTREE TOWN Launches Disney100-Themed Events ー “Wishing Upon the TOKYO SKYTREE TOWN: Wishing Upon the Sky with 100 Years of Stories,” April 20-July 19

    Tokyo SKYTREE TOWN, operated by Tobu Tower SKYTREE and Tobu Town Solamachi will hold various events to commemorate Disney's 100th anniversary (Disney100), named "Wishing upon the TOKYO SKYTREE TOWN: Wishing Upon the SKY with 100 Years of Stories" from April 20, 2023 (Thursday) to July 19, 2023 (Wednesday).
    Disney 100 decoration at TOKYO SKYTREE TEMBO GALLERIA (450 m)
    TOKYO SKYTREE
    At TOKY

  • TOKYO SKYTREE is growing, and this spring and summer is the time to check out everything going on around the Tokyo landmark.

    As the trees begin to blossom in Tokyo, Japan’s capital city prepares for spring and summer.
    Whilst the cherry blossom festivals are on everyone’s radar, there are plenty of other things to enjoy as things heat up in the city.
    Here are some unknown spots and new things to see in Tokyo.
    TOKYO SKYTREE is coming of age
    In 2022, TOKYO SKYTREE celebrated its 10th-year anniversary and after

  • The East TOKYO Festival of Light launches in Tokyo, Presented by Tobu Railway Group

    The theme of this year's winter light display is "Where Tradition Meets Innovation." It's being held in East Tokyo, from Asakusa in Taito Ward to TOKYO SKYTREE TOWN in Sumida Ward, November 10-February 15.In addition to the previous year's illumination at TOKYO SKYTREE TOWN, TOKYO mizumachi and SUMIDA RIVER WALK, Tobu Railroad will further enhance the appeal of the area through new partnerships wi

  • Kinugawa Onsen Celebrates its 330th Anniversary AND Kawagoe City Celebrates its 100th Anniversary - Both with Fireworks!

    Kinugawa Onsen's "Hyakka Ryouran Hanabi - Kinugawa Enka" Fireworks will be held Every Saturday from Now through December. Kawagoe City's 10,000 Fireworks Display will be held on August 20, 2002.Kinugawa Onsen Fireworks
    Fireworks are symbol of summer in Japan, but this year, two locations along the Tobu Railway, will be celebrating a bit more than usual.
    Kinugawa Onsen, located approximately

  • Summer In The "Little Edo" Town Of Kawagoe

    In the "Little Edo" town of Kawagoe, Experience the Shinto Illness-Shunning Ritual of Chiniwa Kuguri; Stay in the Villa Annex to a Historic House, Set Within a Gorgeous, 150-Year-Old Japanese Garden; Enjoy the 30th Anniversary Fireworks Display – Returning After a 3-Year Covid-Initiated Hiatus.Chinowa Kuguri at Kawagoe Hachiman Shrine
    From June 30 – July 10, visitors to the lovely, "Little Edo"

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