Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from U.S., Australia and U.K in February 2020

The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)’s statistics for February 2020  finds that Japan received 73,400 from U.S. (-20.8% year on year), 48,500 from Australia (+1.8%) and 18,600 visitors from U.K. (-21.0%). Although the Australian government raised the travel warning for Japan on February 23 due to spread of the novel coronavirus, visitors from Australia were record-high for February. 

The graph below shows yearly changes of visitors from the four markets in the last 12 months:

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