Japan Set New Tourist Record In August

Above, Nakamise Street in Asakusa, a popular tourist attaction in Tokyo. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The number of foreign visitors to Japan set new records in 2010, which was before things made a big u-turn in the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake in Tohoku.

That is all changed as a new record number of foreign tourists in August visited Japan.

Kyodo News reported:

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in August broke the record for the month, rising 17.1 percent from a year earlier to 907,000, on the back of the weaker yen, an estimate by the country's tourism body showed Wednesday. 

The previous August record was 803,000 set in 2010, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.

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