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Oriental Hotel Tokyo Bay in Urayasu, Chiba, is offering a new stay plan that lets guests try ReFa recovery wear, pillows, hair dryers, and other beauty and wellness items in their room, with reservations opening July 9 and stays beginning July 15, 2026, limited to three rooms per day.
Pilot Corporation is celebrating Pocket Mellchan's 5th anniversary with the new "Tokimeki♡Change! Poke Mel Compact," a portable case that transforms from a hair-color-changing dresser into a cafe, launching July 18, 2026, alongside a renewed doll lineup and new Mellchan towels.
FAIRYTAIL is releasing a fragrance collection inspired by the five Princesses of the original TV anime Princession Orchestra, available from July 7 at the DREAMING PRINCESS online store, Amazon, and Rakuten.
From July 7 to September 30, 2026, Rihga Royal Hotel Hiroshima's 1st-floor restaurant Dining Luore will serve two new shaved ice flavors, Mango & Hiroshima Lemon and Uji Matcha Kintoki, as a limited-time cafe menu available from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Ahead of its renewal 10th anniversary in September 2026, Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto is releasing two new stay plans from July 7 — a 10-room plan packed with up to 10 perks, and a suite room plan with welcome fruit, limited to three rooms per day.
Riichi City, an online mahjong game from Formirai Co., Ltd., is holding an encore collaboration with Danganronpa from July 10 to August 9, bringing back four collaboration characters and adding collaboration-exclusive in-game items.
ROKKO Forest Sound Museum on Mount Rokko will hold its Autumn & Halloween Fair from August 29 to November 13, 2026, featuring antique music box concerts, a music box workshop, and Halloween-themed photo spots in SIKI Garden.
BAREFOOT DREAMS' Butter Chic Collection makes its first appearance at Ron Herman Men's on July 11, offering a T-shirt, shorts, and jogger pants in black, cut in a relaxed silhouette from a remarkably soft, smooth-textured fabric.
The Royal Park Canvas Fukuoka Nakasu (5-6-20 Nakasu, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka) is holding "CANVAS FUKUOKA NAKASU × REC COFFEE Special Event 2026" in its 2F Canvas Lounge, with the first session on July 18, 2026 offering an iced coffee tasting across three extraction methods paired with desserts crafted to match each one.
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ROYCE' Confect is introducing two new coffee-inspired treats that pair soy milk with coffee's aroma and bitterness, Nama Chocolate [Soy x Cafe Latte] and Soy Espresso Chocolate, available through ROYCE' mail order from July 8, 2026, for a limited time and while supplies last.
Winery Restaurant St. Cousair in Iizuna, Nagano, is holding a one-night-only "Opera Dinner" on August 29, 2026, pairing live performances by opera singers including baritone Kei Kondo with a seasonal course menu overlooking the vineyard at sunset.
Chinese Restaurant SANGU on the 39th floor of Umeda Sky Building in Osaka has added a new original blend Chinese tea combining Wenshan Baozhong oolong with rose red, elderflower, dried tangerine peel, and licorice, developed together with tea specialists at MEIZAN TEA.