Tie-up of e-commerce giant and Chinese firm comes following the passage of a new law giving the green light to private short-term lodging services.
The transport ministry said Tuesday it has selected a number of regional airports across the country to take part in a tourism incentive program, which includes lowering landing fees for international flights. Airports in Niigata, Shizuoka, Kumamoto and six others in Hokkaido are among 32 ...
Foreign visitors racked up a record 7.86 million hotel and inn stays in April, thanks largely to the Easter holidays and the cherry blossom season, the Japan Tourism Agency said Friday. The figure, up 16.0 percent from a year ago, was the highest for any ...
Earthquake simulators have become tourist draws at disaster education centers nationwide, with a growing number of foreign visitors eager to learn about the hazards of life in a seismically active country. With the number of foreign visitors rapdily surging, some of the centers have begun ...
Visitors to Japan passed the 10 million mark last Saturday, three weeks earlier than last year, Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Akihiko Tamura said Friday. According the latest data, visitors to Japan have exceeded 10 million for five years straight, but this time was the fastest ...
East Japan Railway Co. will install a prayer room at Tokyo Station in response to an increase in Muslim visitors to Japan, mainly from Southeast Asian nations. The prayer room, with a floor space of about 8 sq. meters, will be launched on June 5 ...
Japan drew a significant increase in foreign visitors during the January to March quarter, but spending per person fell, government data show. The Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday that an estimated 6,537,200 people visited Japan in the first quarter of 2017, up 13.6 percent from ...
An estimated 2.04 million foreign visitors came to Japan in February, growing 7.6 percent from a year earlier but at a slower pace than the previous month, a government body said Wednesday. The figure for February — 2,035,800 visitors — was also the largest for ...
The Cabinet approved rules limiting home-sharing by private citizens to 180 days a year, according to the final draft of the legislation headed for the Diet.
Some 250 people, including foreign students from a Japanese language school, took part in a natural disaster drill Wednesday that simulated a massive earthquake hitting Asakusa, a major tourist area in Tokyo's Taito Ward. The scenario of the drill assumed an earthquake registering upper 6 ...
Hotel stays by visitors to Japan rose an estimated 8 percent to a record 70.88 million in 2016 as the government's tourism drive bore more fruit, the Japan Tourism Agency said in a preliminary report Friday. Foreign visitors accounted for 14.3 percent of all 494.18 ...
The National Governors’ Association may ask the government to specify an accommodation tax as a levy under the local tax law.
