Foreign tourists are seen in Osaka’s Dotonbori district on April 27.
17:48 JST, October 16, 2024
Tokyo, Oct 16 (Jiji Press) – The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in September grew 31.5 percent from a year earlier to 2,872,200, a record high for the month, mainly due to the increase in visitors from including China and Malaysia. The Japan National Tourism Organization said this on Wednesday.
Helped by the sharp depreciation of the yen, the cumulative number of foreign visitors in the first nine months of this year reached about 26.88 million, exceeding 25.06 million for the entire last year.
The result for September this year represented an increase of 26.4 percent compared to September 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The number of visitors to Japan reached a record high for the reporting month for the eighth month in a row.
The Japan Tourism Agency said separately on Wednesday that total spending by foreign visitors to Japan in July-September reached ¥1.948 billion, the second-largest quarterly figure after the record high of April-June this year.
Spending per visitor was an estimated ¥223,000, while accommodation costs accounted for more than 30 percent of total expenses, according to the agency.
