The 290-room Palace Hotel Tokyo will open on May 17 in Marunouchi on a stunning, moat-side setting by the Imperial Palace. The hotel’s 10 new restaurants and bars include Japanese, Chinese and French dining venues. In a country not otherwise known for ...

Dozens of holiday makers aboard a Disneyland bound bus crashed on a highway in Fujioka, north of Tokyo. Photo: AP At least seven people have been killed and 39 injured after a bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland crashed. The bus smashed against a roadside wall ...

A trip to the lower deck will cost 2,000 yen. Visits up the tower are fully booked through July 11, said Kenji Aoyagi, a Tobu spokesman. The new tower is also about double the height of Japan’s previous record-holder, the 333-meter Tokyo Tower ...

an analyst at Barclays Capital Japan Ltd. “Train travel isn’t going to increase when the population is shrinking.” To contact the reporters on this story: Chris Cooper in Tokyo at ccooper1@bloomberg.net; Kiyotaka Matsuda in Tokyo at ...

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TOKYO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko left Tokyo Wednesday for a trip to Britain to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, local media reported. "I am very happy to have an opportunity to express ...

The eclipse next Monday will be Japan's first in 25 years and the first one viewable from the Tokyo metropolitan area in 173 years. Major travel agency JTB Corp. said special package tours to witness the celestial event in the Hakone resort area southwest ...