Japan Station

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Japan StationGoNarita Airport Transit & Stay Program to Return with Free and Paid Local Tours The Narita Airport Transit & Stay Program will return this autumn after a six-year suspension, giving travelers the opportunity to explore attractions and communities around Narita International…

August 17

Japan StationGoTokyu Launches “Green Lifestyle Train” to Promote Yokohama Garden Expo Tokyu Railways has launched a “Green Lifestyle Train” to build excitement for GREEN×EXPO 2027, an international garden exposition that will be held in Yokohama next year.

July 29

Japan StationGoJapan’s First Hydrogen-Fueled Cruise Ship to Sail on Tokyo Bay NYK Line (also known as Nippon Yusen) has released details of its new cruise ship, Amane, which will have its debut cruise on Tokyo Bay in 2027.

July 17

Japan StationGoKyoto’s Eizan Railway Debuts Beautiful Souvenir Train Magnets Railway fans will soon be able to collect new collectible merchandise celebrating two of Kyoto’s best-known sightseeing trains.

July 9

Japan StationGoNew Sightseeing Loop Bus to Connect Kyoto Station and Kiyomizu-dera Temple Keihan Bus has announced that it will operate a limited-time sightseeing loop bus, called the “Kiyomizu-dera Line” from July.

June 17

Japan StationGoNew Japan Philharmonic to Perform Railway-Themed Concert Featuring Departure Melodies If you regularly take trains in Japan, you will be familiar with some of the departure melodies that are played on station platforms just before a train departs.

June 7

Japan StationGoNew “Kizashi” Train to Debut on Yamaguchi Area’s JR Sanyo Main Line A new train named “Kizashi” will begin running on the JR Sanyo Main Line in Yamaguchi Prefecture this summer.

April 24

Japan StationGoHotel Metropolitan The Base Sendai to Open by Sendai Station Travelers to Japan’s Tohoku region will have a new accommodation option in the region’s largest city of Sendai from this April.

April 9

Japan StationGoThe Royal Express Tokaido-Fuji Cruise Train Offers Two Luxury Tours in Spring 2026 Two spring tours in Japan’s central Tokaido region have been announced for the luxury cruise train, the Royal Express.

March 31

Japan StationGoHotel Metropolitan Tokyo Marunouchi Opens Premium Family “Train View Rooms” Overlooking Tokyo Station Hotel Metropolitan Tokyo Marunouchi, which is located in a high-rise tower beside Tokyo Station, is to open new premium “Train View” rooms this spring.

March 11

Day by Day Japan plans a first trip to Japan the way a friend who lives here would: one day at a time, with the trains and the prices written down.

Each route is a real day or weekend: where to go first, how long the walk or the train takes, what the ticket costs and where to eat on the way. Prices come from the operator's or the place's own published fares and carry the date they were checked; where we have not checked a price, the route says so instead of guessing. If it rains, the route has a plan B.

Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

The routes and notes are written by one editor under a pen name, Sora Nakamura, drafted with AI assistance from checked material and read before they go out. Day by Day Japan is independent: no advertisers, no affiliate links, no bookings.