Japan Achieves Record 11.25 Million Foreign Visitors In 2013

Above, the Kinkaku-ji Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Japan had earlier set a goal of 10 million foreign visitors for 2013. They beat that goal, and it was by quite a lot!

According to Kyodo News:

Foreign visitors to Japan totaled a record high 11.25 million in 2013, up 2.08 million from a year earlier and topping the 10 million threshold for the first time, according to preliminary data released by the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau of Japan. 

Immigration officials said the weak yen, which helped lower traveling costs in Japan, as well as eased visa requirements for Southeast Asians was behind the increase.

Congratulations have to go out to the Japanese tourism industry for accomplishing, and exceeding, their 2013 goal.

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