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Sanrio Character Park Harmonyland in Hiji, Oita hosts the Halloween event HARMONYLAND HALLOWEEN from September 18 to November 10, 2026, featuring an upgraded Magical Masquerade live show, a new participatory show, Halloween-themed parades and greetings, and limited-time candy-inspired food.
Frontier Works has opened the Nintendo Switch store page for Heroic Songs: the Remix!, the idol x town-building simulation game already available on Steam, ahead of its October 8, 2026 release. An opening movie featuring the theme song Follow the Glow has also gone live on the official YouTube channel.
Jewelry brand Hirotaka is releasing the AMBER SPEAR earrings, set with amber and white agate, in limited quantities from August 20, 2026, available at Hirotaka's directly-operated stores and its official online store.
From October 1 to November 26, 2026, HOSHINOYA Okinawa will offer "Autumn Colors Dessert Course," a six-course dessert experience built around the character of Okinawa's rare purple sweet potato, paired with tea in an open garden setting.
As summer's heat begins to ease, Hotel Anaga on Awaji Island is inviting guests to enjoy a poolside resort stay under the theme "Just a Little More Summer," with time at the garden pool, original cocktails at the poolside bar, and a limited-time stay plan featuring Awaji beef and salt-baked Awaji onion.
HOTEL FORK & KNIFE Miyajima, the culture retreat hotel that opened near Miyajima this March, is holding a talk event and dinner built around the photobook Hiroshima 1958, featuring ref. head Kengo Nakamoto and editor Chihiro Minato on September 11 and 12, 2026.
From September 1, 2026, Hotel Harvest Kyu-Karuizawa's Japanese restaurant "Avant" will serve a limited-time eight-course "Matsutake Kaiseki" built around fragrant autumn matsutake mushrooms, available through October 31.
Starting September 2026, Hotel Indigo Hakone Gora's Riverside Kitchen & Bar introduces a new seasonal dinner course from Executive Chef Kei Sakamoto, layering French technique and wood-fire cooking with Japanese ingredients like plum, yuba, whitebait, and miso, available in three tiers from ¥10,000.
From August 20, 2026, Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen is taking reservations for two Christmas cakes -- a shortcake built around the hotel's original crest and a mechanical "karakuri" cake with a hidden surprise -- both featuring Gifu Prefecture's Mino Musume strawberry.
Hotel Metropolitan in Ikebukuro is offering two limited-time stay plans paired with commemorative dinner courses — a luxury Chinese course at "Keilin," celebrating its renovation reopening, and a seasonal course at "Est," marking its 1st renewal anniversary.
Hotel Metropolitan Nagano is marking its 30th anniversary with a limited-edition Christmas cake, "Floraison d'Hiver," decorated with 30 strawberries as a tribute to three decades of gratitude, with reservations opening October 1, 2026.
Hotel Vischio Amagasaki's Café & Restaurant "West River" is running an Autumn Family Lunch & Dinner Buffet on select dates in September, October, and November 2026, featuring about 30 all-you-can-eat dishes made with seasonal ingredients like mushrooms and sweet potato, monthly sushi varieties, and a rotating hands-on food corner, plus 90 minutes of unlimited soft drinks.