Recommended for overseas visitors! Nippon Hodai, a Japanese travel media, announced their redesigned web magazine on March 25

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Telecom Square, Inc. announced their redesigned web magazine, Nippon Hodai®, on March 25, 2019. Nippon Hodai is a free paper and web magazine targeted for overseas visitors and has collaborated with many companies. They have offered information about food, shopping, recreations/entertainments, and culture that visitors can enjoy in Japan. This time, they redesigned the website to make it more convenient and easier to use. The site will develop even more as a portal site where people can easily and conveniently access to many kinds of information.

Go to the website: https://nippon.hodaiweb.com/?prtimes

Contents of the article

1. What is Nippon Hodai?
2. Contents to meet the needs of overseas visitors
3. Enjoy Japan to the fullest! The website is full of little-known yet interesting information
4. You will never get lost again. Use a navigation app, PinnAR, available in four languages

1. What is Nippon Hodai?

When overseas visitors look for travel info about Japan, they find it difficult to get what they want. Nippon Hodai collects information about travel in Japan from all over the world, and they share it in English, Chinese (traditional), Korean, and Japanese. Moreover, they also have their own contents and develop the website even more as a portal site for travel in Japan.

<Summary>

・Multi-lingual portal site for travel info in Japan.

・Made it easy to find articles by posting updated info about travel in Japan gathered from all over the world.

・Japan travel website acting as a hub site of the one around the world.

2. Contents to meet the needs of overseas visitors

According to Japan Tourism Agency of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the main spending were food and beverages, recreations/entertainments, and shopping in 2018(accommodation and transportation are excluded.) On Nippon Hodai, they arranged these groups into four categories: Gourmet; Shopping; Leisure; and Culture. And you can find high quality information that are gathered from all over the world.

<Summary>

・Categorized by the most popular types of information.
・Gourmet, Shopping, Leisure, Culture
・Articles can cover the most of needs of overseas visitors.

3. Enjoy Japan to the fullest! The website is full of little-known yet interesting information

Nowadays, not only material-oriented consumption but experience-oriented consumption is increasing. And more and more people have become interested in rural areas. As travel styles of overseas visitors have become more varied, it has been more difficult to meet their needs.

Nippon Hodai offers little-known yet interesting information about travel in Japan in addition to traditional travel information that many visitors are still looking for. And they are available in different languages.

More and more visitors are coming many times from Taiwan and Hong Kong. The web magazine has “not well-known” information that would satisfy those who have visited Japan several times.

<Summary>

・To meet the varying needs, they deliver deep and niche info that traditional Japan travel media does not have.

4. You will never get lost again. Use a navigation app, PinnAR, available in four languages

One of the biggest troubles overseas visitors have during their visit in Japan is getting directions to their destination using public transportations. As online maps and apps have developed, it has become easier to gain information about public transportations. However, it is still troublesome to find the right direction after they get off a bus or a train.

Nippon Hodai set up deep linking for AR navigation app, PinnAR, at shops and tourist spots. By using the app, you can get to your destination without confusion. Also, PinnAR gives you coupons for their partner stores. Now you can travel conveniently and economically.

Download PinnAR here: https://pinnar.onelink.me/3IhY/nhoudaipress

<Summary>

・Get directions to a place you found on their articles.

・Get coupons from their articles.

■About the Company

Telecom Square, Inc. offers travelers “sense of security, convenience, and fun” during their trip through global mobile WiFi rental. As their customer support is open 24/7 and their reliability is acknowledged by PrivacyMark System, you can use their product without worry.

Company name: Telecom Square, Inc.

CEO: Yuji Yoshitake

Headquarters: Homat Horizon Bldg. 3F, 6-2 Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan

Number of employees: 279 (as of January 1, 2019)

Establishment: March 28, 1974

Business: Assisting inbound/outbound customers through rental and sales of global mobile communication devices and operating AR navigation app and travel information media.