Tag: "DomesticTravel"

Luggage storage provider Bounce has launched a luggage delivery service between Yamato Transport’s 3000 bases nationwide in Japan, allowing allows a traveler to deliver luggage between the Yamato’s offices or check-in counters.

Japan's Leisure White Paper 2025 reveals that the entire leisure market scale in 2024 increased by 5.6% year on year to 75.2 trillion yen, and ‘domestic travel’ was the top activity with 46.8 million in terms of the number of participants.

Tobu Top Tours, a Japanese travel agent, has started selling helicopter sightseeing tours looking down autumn leaves from the sky to enjoy autumn leaves comfortably avoiding traffic jam.

The average occupancy rate of 113 hotels in Kyoto City was 76.8% in August 2025, and ADR was down 6.7% to 16,863 yen. DMO KYOTO has forecasted that the occupancy rates are expected to be 86.2% in October.

JTB has launched a new sharing service ‘Baggage GO’ to match a traveler who wants to deliver baggage in a tourist destination with a driver who wants to take it on a system.

Yokohama City Visitors Bureau launched a new tourism branding campaign ‘Blooming Yokohama’ to create momentum for ‘GREEN×EXPO 2027,' which will be held from March 19 to September 26 2027.

Tourism EXPO Japan 2025 with a theme of ‘Travel for Discovery and New Encounters’ opened at Aichi Sky Expo in Aichi Prefecture on September 25. At the opening ceremony, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a video message: “Tourism is a core industry in the regions.

ahoo! Search has begun offering a AI assistant function for a user to create travel routes in conversation with generative AI.

A new tour guided by avatar robot ‘OriHime’ in Nihonbashi area was launched. A pilot can guide a traveler through the "OriHime" that sets on your shoulders, allowing them to walk and talk.

‘Tourism EXPO Japan 2025 Aichi/Central Japan (TEJ2025)’ with a theme of ‘Travel for Discovery and New Encounters’ will open at Aichi Sky Expo for four days from September 25 2025.

WeatherNews has forecasted that autumn leaves this year are expected to be at their average peak or a little bit behind usual nationwide. Part of autumn leaves might be damaged the colors.

JUNGLIA OKINAWA sells a special ticket exclusively for local residents in Okinawa in the limited period from September 1 2025 to October 31 2025.

Total amount of Japanese domestic travel consumption was up 6.2% year on year to 6.8 trillion yen in the 2nd quarter of 2025. Travel spending a travel per traveler was up 5.8% to 46,676 yen.

JR Tokai, JR West Japan and JR Kyushu will begin a new Shinkansen booking service on LINE, the biggest communication app in Japan. PayPay, a digital wallet, can be selected as payment.

Lecip Holdings has begun dealing with tour bus ticket on the digital ticket system ‘QUICK TRIP Ticket’ for cruise passengers who join a tour in Ishigaki Island.

A new audio streaming service ‘MORPHONE’ is launched in the tourism market. The cloud-based service, without downloading an app, distributes audio to tour participants on their smartphones all at once.

NAVITIME JAPAN has begun providing ‘‘summer retreat mode’ on its travel planning & booking service ‘NAVITIME Travel’ to propose summer retreat destinations.

Jalan Research Center recently shared the results of ‘domestic travel trends 2025 survey,' explaining the ratio of Japanese people who traveled in Japan in FY2024 ending March 31 2025 was 49.3%, slightly lower than 49.5% in FY2023.

‘Poke Park KANTO’ will open in part of Yomiuri Land in Tokyo in the spring 2026. more than 600 Pokemons will show up in ‘Pokemon Forest’ and ‘Kayatsuri Town’.'

Japanese OTA ‘jalan.net' continues encouraging users to book travels through demand-boosting to meet each region’s needs, creation of tourism contents, distribution of coupons and sales campaigns.