Foreign Visitors to Japan Hit Record High for Sept.

   Tokyo, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)--The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in September grew 31.5 pct from a year before to 2,872,200, a record high for the month, chiefly thanks to increases in visitors from countries including China and Malaysia, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Wednesday.
   Helped by the yen's sharp depreciation, the cumulative number of foreign visitors in the first nine months of this year reached about 26.88 million, already exceeding 25.06 million for the whole of last year,
   The result for September this year represented a rise of 26.4 pct compared with September 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
   The number of visitors to Japan hit a record high for the reporting month for the eighth straight month.
   The Japan Tourism Agency separately said Wednesday that total spending by foreign visitors to Japan in July-September came to 1,948 billion yen, the second-largest quarterly figure after the record high logged in April-June this year.

(2024/10/16-17:15)

To read a full story, please click here to find out how to subscribe.