Number of Foreign Visitors To Japan Reached All-Time High In March

Above, the Godzilla statue in Hibiya. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

People must have read about the grand time I had in Japan (despite the snow) in February as foreign tourists flocked to Japan in record numbers in March, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO).

The Bangkok Post reported:

TOKYO - The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached 1.05 million in March, an all-time high for a single month, topping the previous high of 1 million in July last year, an estimate released by the Japan National Tourism Organisation showed Wednesday. 

The figure for March was up 22.6% from the same month a year earlier.

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