Japan Bound

‘Travel Trends 2025,’ the latest report on travel economic trend by Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI), finds that Asian countries including Japan become popular as next tourist destinations in this summer.

Japanticket, a e-ticket service provider for international tourists, sells high-value tour in partnership with Honda and Rosewood Miyakojima, targeting luxury international visitors to Japan.

Odakyu Group, a Japanese private railway group, will extend the credit card touch payment system to the group transportation to improve passenger experiences for international visitors to Japan.

SPORTS JAM launched a new service to mediate professional video creators for international tourists to Japan.　A user can be matched with a creator on the platform by choosing shooting date, location and so on.

The number of international arrivals in Japan in May 2025 was up 21.5% year on year to record-high 3,693,300 for May. Visitors from India were up 47.9% to record-high 43,000 on a single month basis.

NAVITIME JAPAN, a Japanese navigation app provider, revealed where foreign visitors to Osaka Kansai EXPO visited in the venue and outside of the venue.

The Japanese government recently decided to set a goal to increase consumption on foods by foreign visitors to Japan by about three times to 4.5 trillion yen a year by 2030.

Local consumption by luxury inbound travelers to Japan amounted to 1 trillion yen in 2023, about 50.6% more than 2019. The number of high-valued inbound travelers was up 83.2% to about 590,000

Ai, a pharmacy operator in Tokyo, has launched a multi-language clinic search service ‘MEDSEEK’ for foreign visitors to Japan, linking data for 2223 clinics nationwide with Google Map.

Bounce, global luggage storage service provider, ties up with JOYSOUND,, Japan’s leading karaoke shops, to boost empty-handed travel. A user can find and book the nearest luggage storage place on the app at 400 yen a day.

Traveloka, a major OTA in Southeast Asia, has entered the Japanese market, providing Japanese travelers flexible options not only for outbound travel but also domestic travel.

Japan’s taxi app GO opens a mini program in China’s No.1 communication app WeChat in partnership with Japan’s e-ticket platform Linktivity.

The number of international arrivals in Japan in April 2025 was up 28.5% year on year to record-high 3,908,900 on a single month basis. The largest origin market was China with 765,100 (up 43.4% year on year)

Tokyo Metro will launch a new baggage storage locker service ‘Tokyo Metlocker PLUS' to deliver a stored baggage from the locker to a designated hotel in Tokyo.

EY Strategy and Consulting (EY Japan) recently released a report titled ‘What does high-value-added tourism generate?' Tomotaka Hirabayashi, EY Japan Strategic Impact Unit Partner, talked about how important high-value-added tourism is for Japan.

The Japan Tourism Agency recently conducted a survey on problems international tourists have in traveling in Japan. The ratio of problems with ‘immigration procedure’ at an airport was up 2.4 times to 8.6%.

Seven-Eleven Japan, the largest convenience store chain of Japan, is focusing on product development and marketing activities to encourage international visitors to Japan to spend more at stores.

Shizuoka Prefecture started pre-registration and pre-payment on ‘Shizuoka Prefecture FUJI NAVI’ app for Mt. Fuji climbers who enter the gates in Shizuoka on May 9 2025.

Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025 opened on April 13 2025. It is expected to be a great opportunity for Japanese people to turn their eyes to the world again. What kind of impacts on the tourism industry do it have?

DID-GLOBAL and The DECK launch a new service for international digital Nomad who stay in Japan to book a residence and a 24-hours working space simultaneously before visiting Japan.