An estimated 5,457,000 people from abroad visited national parks in Japan in 2016, up 11 percent from the previous year, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday. The government hopes to increase the number of visitors from abroad to the 33 national parks to 10 million by ...
The Environment Ministry will double the number of rangers operating the nation's 33 national parks to around 200 by fiscal 2020 as part of government efforts to attract more foreign visitors to nature tourism, a source close to the matter said Monday. The ministry is ...
Over 9.4 million foreign tourists visited Osaka last year, the largest number ever, Osaka tourism authorities announced earlier this week. The figure represents a 31 percent increase on 2015, and is more than triple the number of foreign nationals who visited the city in 2013, ...
The number of visitors to Japan from overseas rose 21.8 percent to 24.04 million in 2016 and their spending grew 7.8 percent to ¥3.75 trillion ($33 billion), both all-time highs, the government said Tuesday. But the pace of increase for both was much slower than ...
The number of foreign visitors to Japan hit a whopping 24.03 million last year, but the growth rate has started to slow down.
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in the first 11 months of 2016 reached 21.99 million, up 22.4 percent from a year earlier, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday. In November alone, the figure rose 13.8 percent from the year before to 1.88 ...
With the number of visitors to Japan setting new records, Tokyo police are busy dealing with surging amounts of lost belongings. According to a tally by the Metropolitan Police Department, at least 55,000 lost articles were returned to their overseas owners in fiscal 2015, which ...
Figures show foreign tourists spent ¥971.7 billion from July to September period, down 2.9 percent from the same time last year.
The number of foreign visitors to Tokyo topped 10 million for the first time last year, NHK reported Friday. Based on a survey on tourist spots and hotels, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government found that non-Japanese who visited Tokyo for sightseeing or business totaled 11.89 million, ...
Spending by foreign travelers in Japan in the April-to-June period totaled an estimated ¥888.7 billion ($7.15 billion), a record high, thanks to Chinese spending small fortunes on Japanese-made products, sources said. With total spending in the first half of this year already topping ¥1.59 trillion, ...
A record 9.14 million foreigners are estimated to have visited Japan from January to June this year, a 46 percent increase from the same period in 2014, as the country continued to attract tourists from China, Taiwan and elsewhere, government data showed Wednesday. The surge ...
A museum dedicated to the history of Toyota Motor Corp. is attracting so many foreign visitors that attendance has set a new all-time high. The Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya attributes the influx to the weakened yen, which is fueling a ...
