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Country Farm Tokyo German Village digitized drive check-in ticket with no need to get out a car to ease traffic jam The Village aims to ease traffic jam around the gate and also to use the collected date to improve customer satisfaction.

VELTRA, a local experience booking platform of Japan, revealed that Japanese travelers seek more diversified local activities and seek efficient and convenient transportation in a destination.

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.

ANA will introduce new domestic flight airfares for passengers to choose prices and ancillary services, following integration of the domestic and international passenger service systems.

JTB's consolidated sales for FY2024 ending March 31 2025 slightly reduced by 1% year on year to 1,073 billion yen, but profit reduced due to strategic investments.

The number of Japanese outbound travelers in April 2025 was up 8.2% year on year to 961,400.

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)

NTTCom Online Marketing Solution's NPS (net Promotor Score) survey for OTAs finds that the top OTA in Japan you would recommend to your friends is Jalan.net, followed by Rakuten Travel.

Japan Tourism Agency supports financially five projects in Kanazawa, Hakuba, Wakayama, Kotohira, Okinawa to attract high-quality digital nomad travelers from the world.

UN Tourism hosted ‘Global Tourism Investment Forum’ in the UN Pavilion of Osaka Kansai EXPO, where tourism industry leaders discussed and shared ideas for investments to the Japanese tourism sectors.

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%.

Fujikyu group, a private railway company in Japan, has begun developing transportation infrastructures in Mt.Fuji and Five Fuji Lakes area to make the area a world standard luxury resort.

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?

Universal Studio Japan (USJ) terminated ticket selling at on-site booths and expanded online ticket selling by adding QR-code payment as new payment method.

Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, launched a travel campaign to encourage Japanese people who have suffered rise in prices to travel to Sendai.