Tag: "InboundTravelInJapan"

Japanese experience booking platform Veltra has started testing a membership concierge service for luxury travelers to provide priceless tailor-made travels.

TBS has launched a new travel brand ‘Suika’ to provide luxury inbound travelers with tailer-made tours, which are creased based on the TV program contents.

‘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.

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.

Sales of 43 major travel companies in March 2025 were down 16.6% year on year to 351.1billion yen. Compared to March 2019, sales in package tours in total were down 41.3% to 77.3 billion yen with 1,58 million customers (down 50.3%).

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.

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

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.