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Around 2,500 tulips in five vibrant colors are blooming at Nishinokawa Kita Plaza in Takatsuki City, with a Tulip Festa event scheduled for April 4, 2026, featuring children's activities and free giveaways.
During the weeping cherry blossom season at teamLab Botanical Garden Osaka, the permanent artwork Resonating Trees - Weeping Cherry illuminates the trees in colors that match the blooms, viewable from April 4, 2026, until the petals fall.
The Kitano Hotel Tokyo offers a special wellness stay package from April 29 to July 31, 2026, combining luxury accommodation, French cuisine dining, and professional acupuncture and osteopathy treatments in the heart of the city.
Toriikuguri, a Japanese izakaya known for Kyoto-style oden and seasonal tempura, has added a new chicken broth oden made from domestic chicken carcasses simmered for four hours, now available as part of a seasonal course menu starting April 2, 2026.
Yanagida Sake Brewery's aromatic imo shochu, made with an aged Hama Komachi sweet potato and the fifth-generation brewer's dedication, is now available in limited quantities at select Tsukada Nojo locations from April 2, 2026.
Pre-orders are now available for A4 Character Fine Graph prints featuring characters from Twilight Out of Focus, sold through the anime goods online shop AMNIBUS.
AMNIBUS, an online store for original anime and manga merchandise, has launched pre-orders for 11 types of Twilight Out of Focus products starting March 30th.
Cafe SKY 40 on the 40th floor of Umeda Sky Building's Sky Garden Observatory is offering a lineup of spring-limited cherry blossom-themed menus, available for a limited time while supplies last.
Starting April 2, 2026, new merchandise based on the "11th Anniversary Character Goods Vote" results for White Cat Project NEW WORLD'S went on sale, featuring original artwork of 11 winning characters across goods and a perfume line.
Wishbon's beloved spring and summer limited treat is back — the YOKOHAMA BRICK STREET Tropical Pine features juicy pineapple, passion fruit caramel, and a coconut-topped cookie sandwich.
Saryo Itoen Zenkoji Store, a Japanese tea cafe that opened within Zenkoji Temple grounds in March 2026, is now serving exclusive matcha sweets developed in collaboration with Azumino-based wagashi maker Kochouan.
Acecook is releasing two new instant noodle varieties on April 27, 2026 — a wasabi soy sauce flavor featuring katsuo arabushi dashi and a yuzu pepper salt flavor based on Rishiri kombu dashi.