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Bar "2000" at Tokyo Dome Hotel is offering a new high tea experience featuring free-flow cocktails crafted by hotel bartenders alongside chef-curated appetizers, available from July 4, 2026, with sweeping views of Tokyo Dome City's illumination.
The renovated permanent interactive exhibition at Tokyo National Museum opens on June 30, 2026, featuring a 14-meter wide screen that uses real-time collection data to present personalized cultural property recommendations from the day's 3,000 on-display works.
An embroidered sukajan featuring Lum from the TV anime Urusei Yatsura is set to release in early October 2026. Available for pre-order at COSPA's online store, the jacket features full embroidery on both the front and back, with a lightweight, no-padding design for wear across three seasons.
Tokyo-based craft brewery VERTERE is set to open a new taproom in Daikanyama on July 17, 2026, serving eight draft beers alongside light food and canned beer retail at the TENOHA Daikanyama complex.
White Cat Project NEW WORLD'S kicks off Episode 3 of its 12th anniversary celebration event, "ZODIAC:CHRONICLE," on June 30, 2026, alongside character gacha featuring Sirius, Asteria, and Illumina.
VR goggle crafts, virtual maker activities, and character meet-and-greets are lined up for children at Rinko Park in Yokohama during the Yokohama Tanabata Festival on July 4–5, 2026.
From July 2026, the Kyoto confectionery house Zen Kashoin is serving a lineup of cool summer sweets — a new aloe and Kotoka strawberry iced dessert, a cream anmitsu, and a chilled water jelly — at its Kyoto Muromachi main store, with two of them also available at ShinQs in Shibuya Hikarie.
A limited-time craft soft cream popup store from the beloved ice cream event あいぱく® opens at Hibiya Step Plaza in Tokyo Midtown Hibiya from July 4 to September 27, 2026.
ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Grand Court Nagoya is hosting a parent-child cooking class on July 28, 2026, where families will prepare a chilled napolitan pasta under the guidance of a hotel chef, followed by the Hokkaido Fair lunch buffet. Limited to 10 pairs; reservations required.
The Dengeki strategy guide covering Animal Crossing's Ver.3.0 free update and Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is now on sale, featuring full item data, 60 resort hotel room coordination examples, and over 130 downloadable original My Designs.
The smartphone RPG Attack on Titan Brave Order is running a new event, "They Saw the Sea That Day," from June 29, 2026, along with a new gacha featuring Sasha Blouse, Jean Kirstein, and Connie Springer, plus the addition of Chapters 38 and 39.
A Bandai Namco character goods corner called Bandai Namco Cross Spot is set to open inside Hakodate Tsutaya Bookstore in Hokkaido on July 4, 2026 — the first appearance of the concept at a bookstore in Hokkaido.