Within the month of April 2023 alone, almost 184,000 Individuals visited Japan, an 8 % enhance over April 2019.

The Japan Nationwide Tourism Group (JNTO) introduced that American customer arrivals to Japan elevated by 3.6 % year-to-date in 2023 over the identical interval (January-April) in 2019, a 12 months that broke the report for worldwide journey to Japan.

Within the month of April 2023 alone, almost 184,000 Individuals visited Japan, an 8 % enhance over April 2019 – making the US the one Western nation (apart from its North American neighbor, Mexico, which noticed a 13.1 % enhance in its customer numbers to Japan over the identical interval) to expertise an increase in tourism to Japan.

“We now have seen an exponential enhance within the curiosity in journey to Japan from the American market,” says Michiaki Yamada, Govt Director of the Japan Nationwide Tourism Group in New York.

“Following the reopening of our nation’s borders to worldwide tourism in late 2022 and the lifting of all Covid-related entry restrictions this spring, the unbelievable pent-up demand to expertise the wonders of Japan post-pandemic means that we are going to possible be welcoming extra Individuals than ever earlier than within the months to return.”

Japan is among the most talked about journey locations of 2023 with the nation as an entire, together with its high cities and areas, showing on among the most coveted “The place to Go” Lists of the 12 months, together with: the Japanese cities of Morioka and Fukuoka within the New York Occasions’ annual checklist of “52 Locations to Go in 2023”; Kyoto and Nagoya featured on Time Journal’s checklist of “The World’s Best Locations of 2023”; The Washington Put up named Japan on its checklist of “The Prime Journey Locations for 2023”; the “artwork islands” of Naoshima included in CNN Journey’s checklist of “The place to Journey in 2023: The Finest Locations to Go to”; Kyushu featured in Bloomberg Pursuits’ “The place to Go in 2023” checklist; Osaka named to The Every day Beast’s checklist of “The place to Journey in 2023”; Japan on the Reader’s Digest checklist of the “20 Finest Locations to Journey in 2023”; Japan included within the TripSavvy checklist of “The place to Go in 2023: The Most Thrilling Locations of the Yr”; Tokyo featured on CNBC’s checklist of “The 7 Cities You Should Go to Earlier than You Die”; and the checklist goes on.