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Animate Ticket begins taking reservations on September 11 for an advance movie ticket for Godzilla Minus Zero bundled with an Animate-exclusive A5 acrylic panel featuring Godzilla peering into the Animate Ikebukuro Main Store.
From September 11, 2026, GRAND CHARIOT Big Dipper 135°, the official luxury villa of Awaji Island's Nijigen no Mori anime park, is offering a new stay plan that pairs its accommodation and Awaji-sourced dinner and breakfast with a viewing ticket to PASONA HARBOR STAGE, a seaside art stage on the island's east coast combining video, music, and live performance.
Grand Nikko Tokyo Bay Maihama will host a Halloween-themed event from September 16 to October 31, 2026, featuring atrium photo spots, a digital stamp rally, and a limited-time stay plan with pastry chef-made Halloween sweets.
Choutokan, the Japanese restaurant at Hamamatsu Marriott Hotel, is offering "Nami no Oto," a limited-time autumn kaiseki course featuring matsutake mushroom, ise lobster, and other seasonal ingredients, from September 1 to October 31, 2026.
Hankyu Umeda Main Store's Koto Koto Stage 12 hosts "Define Yourself" from September 23 to October 6, 2026, bringing together European eyewear, fashion accessories, and fragrances, including a Kansai debut.
AmiAmi is now accepting pre-orders for the G.S.Collection [SC] Hatsune Miku Symphony: 10th Anniversary Ver. 1/7 scale completed figure from Good Smile Company, based on Rella's key visual for the Hatsune Miku Symphony 2025 Yokohama and Kobe concerts, with release scheduled for January 2028.
A new 1/5 scale painted figure of カメラのまえで "羽澄りの" posing in cat cosplay has been announced by Bfull FOTS JAPAN, with pre-orders open now through November 24, 2026, and a scheduled release at the end of March 2027.
XPRICE is releasing three exclusive-color versions of the CCP Middle Size series Hedorah sofubi figure — Nightmare Clear, Ocean Metallic Blue, and Emerald Clear — limited to 100 units per color, rolling out one at a time from September through November 2026.
CAMSHOP.JP's "CIVIC History T-Shirt," printed with generations of Honda's Civic, adds black and dark beige colorways and goes on sale at a duty-free shop in Narita Airport Terminal 2 from late September 2026, with pre-orders open now on the official online shop.
Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is holding its Mejiro Woods Art Festival Christmas Family Concert & Buffet on December 25, 2026, marking Mozart's 270th birth anniversary with a two-part orchestra concert for all ages and a Christmas buffet featuring dishes inspired by Mozart's homeland of Austria.
Dining & Bar TENQOO on the 27th floor of Hotel Metropolitan Marunouchi is holding a "Yamagata Fair" from September 15 to November 11, 2026, featuring a nine-course French dinner, Yamagata wines and drinks, and a weekday shine muscat parfait lunch, all built around ingredients sourced directly from the prefecture.
From December 1 to 25, 2026, Hotel New Grand in Yokohama is offering the Christmas Stay 2026 (To Be Elegant) plan, with a pastry chef's Christmas cake and a full bottle of champagne delivered to the room and specially decorated Christmas Rooms limited to 3 a day. A companion Advent Stay 2026 plan, with an advent calendar and flavored tea, runs November 20 to December 25.