The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is trying to help parts of the country recovering from disasters by steering tourists who visit the capital toward those areas.

The government has developed tourist routes linking Tokyo with 17 prefectures, including six in the Tohoku region still trying to rebound from the devastating March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. It plans to add more destinations in the future.

Tokyo, of course, is the most popular destination. More than half of the record 24.03 million tourists who visited Japan last year spent time in the capital, according to the metropolitan government.