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A world-first Japanese-language demo of Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 headlines the SEGA/ATLUS booth at TOKYO GAME SHOW 2026, alongside a prize-filled Hammer Challenge, a Games Workshop diorama, a new trailer, and a newly opened closed beta test registration page.
This autumn, Toyama's long-awaited Kurobe-Unazuki Canyon Route finally opens to tours on October 2, and the season also brings craft festivals in Takaoka, seasonal flavors like Kazumi apples and genge fish, a craft-filled stay in Kanaya-machi, and hidden autumn foliage spots at Ainokura and Jinzu-kyo Gorge.
Nijigen COSPA is releasing two new outer jackets featuring Arcueid Brunestud from TSUKIHIME -A piece of blue glass moon-, with early sales at TOKYO GAME SHOW 2026 and the Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair 2026 ahead of general release in mid-November 2026.
Uruma City, Okinawa hosts the 38th All-Island Lion Dance Festival on October 10 and 11, featuring an eve festival lit by LED sky lanterns and a day of vibrant lion dance performances at the historic Katsuren Castle Ruins.
From September 4 to October 10, 2026, "アートかビーフンか白厨 (Paichu)" in Roppongi presents "Why, and How?," a group exhibition by three artists — Aiko Yamamoto, Ai Degaito, and Akihiro Hsegawa — who each explore the idea of color through dyeing techniques, ceramic glaze, and Buddhist thought.
WONDERHOLIC JAMBOREE 2026, a three-day urban culture festival, comes to HIROSHIMA GATE PARK from October 2 to 4, 2026, bringing together around 150 stalls spanning markets, music, art, fashion, and barber culture, with free admission throughout.
YOKI MATSUSHIMA, a hot spring hotel in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, is offering a stay plan available on two dates only — September 27 and October 26, 2026 — that pairs a nighttime special viewing of the national treasure Zuiganji temple with a Full-Moon Kaiseki dinner inspired by the moonlit bay, priced from ¥81,900 per person based on double occupancy.
From September 4, Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu is accepting reservations for three Christmas-season stay plans, limited to 10 rooms a day, running November 6 through December 23, 2026, including one December 24–25 exclusive plan with a full-course Christmas dinner served in the room.
YORUNOYO 2026, Yokohama's signature illumination event, runs December 4 to 30, 2026, featuring a citywide light-and-music spectacle with a record 47 participating venues, a large-scale outdoor projection mapping display at Osanbashi Pier, and a 10-meter light cube at Yamashita Park.
Ahead of its September 5 opening at Tokyo Midtown Hibiya Hall, here is a full look at Yuichi Hirako's exhibition "HUMAN AND NATURE," including its indoor and outdoor installations, limited collaborations with I'm donut? and NEUTRALWORKS., and its full lineup of gallery tours, workshops, and talk sessions.
Arma Bianca has launched an online lottery for the TV anime 2.5 Dimensional Seduction through its DRAW!DRAW! service, offering acrylic blocks, canvas boards, acrylic cards, and can badges for 770 yen per draw.
212 KITCHEN STORE, the kitchenware specialty store operated by Lifestyle Innovation Co., Ltd. of the WORLD Group, celebrates its 25th anniversary with its first-ever collaboration collection featuring illustrator HONGAMA. About 70 items go on sale at stores nationwide from September 8, with early sales at the official online store starting September 3.