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Taiwan Culture Festival 2026 Spring runs from October 10 to 12, 2026, at the Tokyo City i Performance Zone in KITTE Marunouchi, with a record 22 booths of Taiwanese food, tea, goods, beauty products, and travel information.
teamLab Biovortex Kyoto - Taisei Corporation marks its first anniversary on October 7, 2026, having welcomed more than 1.3 million visitors from 167 countries and regions since opening, with about 44% of them international travelers.
T-fal's compact Blend Up Essential blender, with a six-blade stainless steel blade, five one-touch auto programs and a tumbler cap, goes on sale in November 2026 at a reference price of ¥15,900.
THE THOUSAND KYOTO near Kyoto Station is a Hotel Partner of the contemporary art fair Art Collaboration Kyoto, held November 7 to 9, 2026. The hotel offers a stay plan with fair invitation tickets from ¥122,000 for two guests, limited to 10 groups, plus in-hotel art displays and a custom card key case.
toroa, a sweets brand in the Best Otoriyose Awards Hall of Fame, began selling two Mini Gift Box sets of its Chocolate-Packed Cookies on October 3. The boxes cost ¥2,250 and ¥2,600 (tax included), each holds six cookies in three flavors, and one also includes two individually wrapped toroaTea packets.
Skater is selling a five-item lunch series decorated with Toy Story pixel art, including a lunch box, seal boxes, a combo cutlery set, and two stainless mug bottles, priced from ¥990 (tax included).
Toyohashi Planetarium in Aichi holds its first Halloween Horror Planetarium on October 24, 2026, pairing a horror dome program with a flashlight-only Night Museum at the Underground Resources Museum. Applications are accepted from October 10 until 12:00 PM on October 17.
Toyotomi's convection kerosene stoves "Classic (CL-N25)" and "Moon Lighter (ML-N25)" go on sale at 12:00 PM on October 6, 2026, at its official online store, priced at ¥38,500 and ¥35,200 including tax.
Patisserie Yu Sasage in Tokyo's Setagaya releases the Soy Brownie (¥302) and Soy Boule de Neige Chocolat (¥702), made with ULTORA soy protein cocoa flavor, for a limited time starting October 9, 2026, in the first collaboration of ULTORA CRAFT / LAB.
Select shop Uzuri, which introduces brands from Africa, holds the "African Quiet Luxury" POP-UP STORE on the 2nd floor of Shinjuku Takashimaya from October 14 to 20, 2026, with bags, jewelry, shawls and more from across the continent.
Update 15.9 for World of Warships brings the Pacific Front strategy event, with the American Tier VI Premium destroyer Monaghan among its rewards, and Blue Archive collaboration content returns in both World of Warships titles.
Yachiho Kogen Ski Resort in Sakuho Town, Nagano, began selling 2026-27 early bird lift tickets and season passes on October 1, ahead of its November 30, 2026 opening, including the 8-ticket "Yachiho Special 8" set at ¥24,000.