TRAVEL

Holidaymakers crammed bullet trains, flights and highways bound for Tokyo and other cities Sunday as the Golden Week holidays began to wrap up. (Japan Times)

Moviegoers, hold on to your seats--Japan's first so-called 4-D movie theater is coming to Nagoya. (Yomiuri)

A total of 10 regional electronic fare cards operated by Japan's eleven major transport authorities on Saturday became mutually usable in all their operating areas in Japan, enabling holders to travel through Japan's key cities across the country with one card. (Kyodo)

Jetstar Japan will be more than a third of the way towards its target fleet of 24 aircraft next month when it adds two Airbus A320 aircraft so it can begin flying to three new destinations later in the year. (The Australian)

Travel agencies and transport companies scrambled to deal with cancellations and rerouting Monday after the deadly Sasago Tunnel accident closed off the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture - a major east-west artery. (Japan Times)

Tokyo's highways experienced long traffic jams Monday night as holidaymakers returned from the first half of Golden Week holidays. (tbsnewsi)

The smoke from cooking fires mingles with potent incense and perfume, a heavy smell that hangs cloying in the air. This is Ōsu, an old "temple town (monzenmachi) spread between Ōsu Kannon and Banshōji in present-day Nagoya. While it might seem an unlikely pairing, the spiritual and the commercial have long been aligned in Japan, with stalls situated near temples to serve visitors multiplying during festivals. (Kotaku)

A masterpiece by U.S. artist Jackson Pollock titled "Mural on Indian Red Ground" is being exhibited at a Tokyo museum after being kept in Iran since the 1970s. The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art is holding an exhibition of Pollock (1912-1956), including the work on loan from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art that is valued at $250 million. (Japan Times)

A museum showcasing steam locomotives, bullet trains and a magnetically levitated train marked its first anniversary this week with an unexpected attendance record of 1.09 million visitors. After opening on March 14, 2011, the museum drew an average of 5,000 visitors on weekends and holidays, and about 2,600 on weekdays. The museum was initially aiming for about 600,000 visitors in is first year, JR Tokai said. (Japan Times)

Narita Airport Authority said Friday it will open on March 31 a terminal for users of business jets. The terminal for business executives and others flying into Narita aboard business jets is the first in the Tokyo metropolitan area, although Central Japan International Airport near Nagoya and Kobe Airport have such facilities, it said.

The facility, located in a building housing Japan Airlines Co.'s operations center near Terminal 2, will have its own lounge as well as immigration and customs. (Japan Times)