The latest guest night statistics in Japan in March 2017 (the secondary report), announced by Japan Tourism Agency, finds that guest nights increased by 1.6% year on year to 42.7 million in... Read more
International visitors to Kyushu increased by 25% year on year to 360,288 in March 2017, which were record-high for March. Out of the monthly total, visitors with cruises reached 105,009, wh... Read more
International guests staying in lodgings in Kyoto City exceeded 50% for the first time in April 2017
Kyoto City Tourism Association and Kyoto Convention Bureau announced that the ratio of international guests staying in hotels and ryokans in Kyoto City increased by 5.3 points year on year t... Read more
TripAdviser announced that the most popular tourist spot in Japan for international travelers based on word of mouth was Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto for four years in a row. The second was... Read more
Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that visas issued for international visitors to Japan by all Japanese diplomatic offices were up 12.9% year on year to record-high 5,381,433 in 2016. Vis... Read more
Wacoal, the Japan’s leading underwear maker, announced on May 30 2017 that it will launch a lodging service by renovating traditional houses in Kyoto. The new service is expected to contribu... Read more
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) announced that the number of international conferences held in Japan in 2016 was up 15.5% year on year to record-high 410. Japan and China were ran... Read more
Peach Aviation announced on May 22 that the Japanese LCC will launch a Bitcoin payment system in tie-ups with Bit Point Japan, the Bitcoin service and FinTech-related service provider, by th... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency reported that duty-free shops for international visitors reached 40,532 nationwide as of April 1 2017, 1,879 more shops than October 1 2016 or tenfold in the past five y... Read more
TripAdvisor announced that word of mouths for tourist spots in Japan by international travelers increased by about 1.5 times year on year in 2016. Regarding word of mouths for prefectures, a... Read more
