Instagram and Tokyo Metropolitan Government launched a joint campaign ‘#MY TOKYO IS _____’ to encourage Instagram users to share pictures or movies about unique and attractive landscapes of... Read more
The survey on inbound travelers’ trends, jointly performed by Japan Travel Bureau Foundation (JTBF) and Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), finds that the ratios of ‘hope to visit Japan for Tok... Read more
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has designated three cycling routes as the first National Cycle Route to appeal cycling tourism in Japan to the world. At the same tim... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency announced that the total number of guest nights in Japan were down 2.4% year on year to 58.28 million in August 2019 (the secondary report), negatively affected by halve... Read more
‘asoview!,’ a Japanese in-destination activity booking platform, has started selling tickets of listed tourist spots in Japan on Reserve With Google for international visitors to Japan. Toda... Read more
LINE Pay membership shops in Japan now accept payment with WeChat Pay by Chinese travelers in partnership between LINE, the largest chat app in Japan and Tencent Holdings Limited of China, w... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency reported that travel spending in Japan by international visitors was up 9% year on year to 1,200 billion JPY in the third quarter of 2019 (July to September 2019). The t... Read more
Itochu, a Japan’s leading trading firm, has formed business partnership with Ring Bell, a catalog gift platform with the 3rd-class travel license, targeting luxury Chinese travelers. Travel... Read more
The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)’s statistics for September 2019 shows that Japan received 201,200 from South Korea (-58.1% year on year), 819,100 visitors from China (+25.5%),... Read more
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) reported that the number of international visitors to Japan in September 2019 was up 5.2% to 2,273,000, particularly boosted by 77,000 additional v... Read more
