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| Above, water lilies at Kamakura's Hachimangu Shrine. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The weaker yen has greatly boosted the numbers of foreign visitors to Japan in May.
Kyodo News reported:
The number of foreign visitors to Japan jumped 31.2 percent in May from the year before to 875,000, a record for the reporting month, due to the weaker yen and the growing number of flights by low-cost carriers, a government tourism organization said Wednesday.
The previous record was 736,000 set in May 2008, the Japan National Tourism Organization said, adding the latest figure is also the third biggest on record.It would be interesting to see how much more people would have visited Japan in May had the Boeing 787 Dreamliner been flying. The plane had been grounded due to problems with overheating of its lithium-ion batteries.
Still this is good news for the Japanese tourist industry.
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