Japan's Tourism Numbers Rebound 92.4% In March

Above, the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The Japan tourism numbers for March are in and they are very encouraging.

 The Japan Times reported:

Tourism in March came close to returning to predisaster levels, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Friday. 

Visitors to Japan came to an estimated 678,500 in the reporting month, down only 4.4 percent from March 2010, the JNTO said.

According to the Japan National Tourism Organization, this is a 92.4 percent rebound.  Japan's tourism industry was hit hard in the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and radiation problems in Fukushima.

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