Tag: "InboundTravelInJapan"

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.

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.

DID-GLOBAL and The DECK launch a new service for international digital Nomad who stay in Japan to book a residence and a 24-hours working space simultaneously before visiting Japan.

Klook has started developing promotion campaigns for the EXPO on its platform and at the same time selling a package of the EXPO ticket and local experience tickets and transportation tickets.

Tabelog, a Japanese restaurant search and booking platform, opened a mini program on a major Chinese communication app ‘WeChat' to enables Chinese visitors to Japan to search and book a restaurant in Japan.

EY Strategy and Consulting (EY Japan) released its latest report titled ‘What does high value-added tourism generate?' to seek a possibility to create new markets or industries when local communities address high value-added tourism involving different players.

Daiwa House Industry, a Japan’s leading house maker, signed a comprehensive partnership agreement with Airbnb Japan to launch a new brand ‘Sumu powered by Airbnb Partners’ for longterm stay.

Spending by inbound travelers for the first three months of 2025 increased by 28.4% year on year to 2.3 trillion yen. Spending per person was estimated at 222,000 yen.

International guest nights in January 2025 were up 34.8% year on year to 15.2 million in January 2025, and the growth rate was higher than 22.9% in December 2024.