Above, yakatabune dining boats moored on the Sumida River in Tokyo.Japan's June tourism numbers are now in. The Japanese tourism industry is still down from a year ago, but it still shows the rate of decline is lessening.
According to the Mainichi Daily News:
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An estimated 433,100 foreign tourists visited Japan in June, down 36.0 percent from a year earlier but slower than the previous three months' year-on-year falls of more than 50 percent, the government said Thursday.
The number of tourists from abroad has weathered the worst contraction following the March 11 disaster and the resultant nuclear crisis, the Japan National Tourism Organization said.
The number dropped 50.3 percent in March, 62.5 percent in April and 50.4 percent in May. In the period of March 12 to 31 following the disaster, it plummeted 73 percent.
Tourism industry hopes for a full-scale recovery are down as long as the nuclear problem remains. Also, as far as Americans are concerned, the poor rate of exchange between the dollar and the yen isn't encouraging them to take a trip.
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