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Local Map Maker Purchases Hotel Room Naming Rights
Kitakyushu-based map company, Zenrin Co., Ltd., acquired naming rights of some hotel rooms in Kokura, Kitakyushu. JR Kyushu Station Hotel Kokura and Zenrin collaboratively offer ‘C...
Drug Smuggling Into Fukuoka Shifts To Mail Services
The Moji Customs disclosed that most of the illegal drugs found last year involved international mail services. The report sites twelve cases of attempted importation of marijuana ...
Kitakyushu Expressway To Continue To Collect Tolls
The Kitakyushu Urban Expressway might continue to collect tolls for another decade. The five-route expressway was initially planned to stop collecting tolls in 2023. However, the c...
The Outlets Kitakyushu to open on Apr 28
The Outlets Kitakyushu will open on the former Space World site on Apr. 28. The shopping mall will offer goods, educational experiences, fun and more with various facilities. Space...
Moji Chuo Market Revival Project
Life is returning to Kitakyushu City’s Moji Chuo Market as shuttered shops are to be rented out to new tenants. The market, established in 1957, currently has only ten shops operat...
Kitakyushu City Test Sheltering in Cars
An organization in Kitakyushu City seeks to utilize cars as temporary shelters during natural disasters. While taking refuge in a vehicle is considered an option if an evacuation o...
Kokura Shopping Center introduces Free Sanitary Napkin Machine
Saintcity shopping mall in Kokura City introduced free-of-charge sanitary-napkin dispensing machines. Eleven units of OiTr were installed in women’s restrooms on four floors (B1, 2...
Yamato Fly Their Own Jets Between Kitakyushu and Tokyo
Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. will introduce the first company-owned jets to connect Kitakyushu and two other domestic airports with Tokyo. Three A321 ships currently used as passenger...
PCR Kit Shortage Leads To Canceled Classes
Delayed PCR screening operations are causing extended school closures in Kitakyushu City. The city’s education committee has expanded its PCR handling capacity but still had no cho...
Uncrewed Ferry Test Completed in Kitakyushu
A trial to operate uncrewed cruise ships took place at Shinmoji Port in Kitakyushu City. The first project of the kind in the world saw a 222-meter-long vessel successfully sail ou...