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Tokyo is the world’s most dynamic food city, even without the Michelin stars
DestinationsIn 2007, Michelin published its first-ever restaurant guide to Tokyo and awarded the city more stars than even Paris. Jean-Luc Naret, Michelin’s editorial director at the time, was emphatic: Tokyo, he said, was “by far the world’s capital of gastronomy,” a comment that seemed as much an indictment of Paris, and of France, as it [...]
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Dreamliner grounding delays United’s Denver-Tokyo service launch again
TransportUnited Airlines is delaying its new Denver-Tokyo service — again — because its new Boeing 787 jets remain grounded. United said Friday that service between Denver and Tokyo’s Narita Airport will begin June 10. The airline had already pushed back the original March 31 start to at least May 12. The airline said that it [...]
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Private equity giant Cerberus patiently waits for payoff from Japanese rail giant
DestinationsCerberus Capital Management LP, owner of 32.4 percent of Seibu Holdings Inc., is willing to wait as long as three years for the relisting of the Japanese rail and hotel operator. The private-equity firm wants to increase its stake and appoint three new directors before selling shares to the public in two or three years, [...]
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What a year of Foursquare check-ins looks like in New York and Tokyo
DestinationsFrom Foursquare’s Vimeo page: Every day, millions of people check in on Foursquare. We took a year’s worth of check-ins in New York City and Tokyo and plotted them on a map. Each dot represents a single check-in, while the straight lines link sequential check-ins. What you can see here represents the power of check-in [...]
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Japan’s prime minister calls Tokyo “inspirational choice” for Olympics
DestinationsTokyo would be an inspirational choice to host the 2020 Olympic Games, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Olympic officials on Monday, with Japan keen to showcase its recovery from a devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Abe made sure that an inspection tour by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) team got off to a heavyweight start. [...]
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United delays launch of Denver-Tokyo flights after dropping 787 until June 5
TransportUnited Airlines cut the grounded Boeing 787 from its flying plans at least until June and postponed its new Denver-to-Tokyo flights on Thursday, as airlines continued to tear up their schedules while the plane is out of service. Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a battery fire in one plane and forced [...]
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JAL’s bankruptcy comes back to haunt it as authorities award ANA more Haneda slots
TransportAll Nippon Airways Co., the nation’s largest carrier by sales, will get eight new domestic slots at Tokyo’s Haneda airport next year, more than twice as many as its biggest rival Japan Airlines Co. JAL, as the airline is also known, will get three of the berths, according to a statement from the transport ministry [...]
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Uber says it wants to expand into Asia and casts favorable glances towards Tokyo
TransportEarlier today, amidst the breaking news that the California Public Utilities Commission had issued a series of citations and fines to a gaggle of transportation apps including Uber, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick also took the stage here to make the case for the black car and taxi dispatch app’s Asian ambitions. Spending the last part [...]
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Hawaiian, American, Delta, and United compete for one slot at Tokyo Airport
TransportHawaiian Airlines is among the airlines bidding for flight rights to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, proposing nonstop flights to the city of Kona on the “Big Island” of Hawaii. The “slot pair” – good for one round trip flight – was originally awarded to Delta Air Lines in 2010 for service from Detroit. But the U.S. [...]
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Boris Johnson’s culture report numerically compares cultures of 12 global cities
SkiftXIn the midst of hosting the 2012 Olympics and being stuck on a zip line, London’s colorful mayor Boris Johnson has found the time to launch the World Cities Culture Report 2012. Berlin, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Mumbai, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo have ”come together in an unprecedented global collaboration to examine the character and importance [...]
