Tourism Inbound tourists 2023 top 20 million

[thomas]

Japan welcomed more than 22 million foreign tourists from January to November 2023, breaking the 20 million annual record for the first time since 2019, as shown by government data on Wednesday. This indicates that the country's tourism industry is recovering strongly from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In November alone, Japan saw about 2.4 million foreign visitors, surpassing the 2 million level for the sixth month in a row, thanks to a surge in the number of tourists from Asia and North America who took advantage of a weak yen and restored flight services, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.

Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Ichiro Takahashi said it is possible to reach the target of 5 trillion yen in annual spending by foreign visitors "if the current pace continues in December." The number of foreign visitors is on the pace to reach around 25 million by the end of the year. The government aims to surpass the highest annual figure recorded in 2019 -- 31.88 million -- in 2025. Major Japanese travel agency JTB Corp. predicted in a survey released Wednesday that visitor arrivals in the country would reach the highest-ever 33.1 million in 2024. The most arrivals in the reporting month came from South Korea at 649,900, more than three times that of 2019, followed by Taiwan at 403,500, up 2.9 per cent over the same period, China at 258,300, down 65.6 per cent, and Hong Kong at 200,400, up 0.3 per cent. Visitor arrivals from the United States rose 24.0 per cent to 184,800 and those from Mexico jumped 52.4 per cent to 9,900, according to the data. Visitors from Canada rose 17.1 per cent to 39,000.

Foreign visitors to Japan exceed 20 million for first time in 4 years | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

The number of foreign visitors to Japan has topped 20 million for the first time since 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic.

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[mdchachi]

That means I was one of 22 million! That makes me pretty damn special.

 

[thomas]

That means I was one of 22 million! That makes me pretty damn special.

I hope you'll be "inbound" next year, too!

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

From lack of taxi, the whole country of the Niseko winter to the approach that taxi driver meeting is new.

• The Niseko area that I demand powder snow, and many people visit from the foreign countries. A new approach to dissolve lack of taxi of the winter began.