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| Above, the torii gate at the Itsukushima Shrine at Miyajima. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Rocket News 24 has posted some statistics on Japan's foreign tourism numbers for 2013. As I posted previously, Japan had over ten million visitors during the 2013 travel year.
The figures were drawn from several sources, including the Japan Tourism Agency (JTA), the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as well as TripAdvisor's website.
Before getting into the numbers, Rocket News 24 wrote:
In 2013, a grand total of 10,363,904 foreign tourists visited Japan! That number surpasses the goal of the Visit Japan Campaign, which began in 2003 with a goal to increase the number of overseas visitors to 10 million.
The Japanese language version of popular travel planning and information website TripAdvisor was quite excited by this news, and recently produced their own visual graphic detailing some fun facts about foreign tourists in the Land of the Rising Sun during 2013. Can you guess which country most of the visitors came from, or which country had the highest percentage jump in visitors? How about the most popular tourist destinations for foreigners traveling in Japan? Find out all that and more after the jump.I've been to three of the five most popular places for tourists to visit.
To read more, go here.
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