Japan's Foreign Visitor Stays Spiked 27% In 2013

Above, the main entrance to Tokyo's Shiba Park Hotel. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

An indicator that the Japanese tourism industry roared back in its recovery from the post-Great East Japan Earthquake year of 2011 is the rise in the number of nights spent by foreign visitors.

The Japan Times reported:

The total number of nights spent by foreign visitors at hotels or other lodgings across the nation rose 27.4 percent to 33.51 million in 2013, the Japan Tourism Agency announced Saturday. 

The figure was up from 26.31 million in 2012, suggesting a recovery trend after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami detered foreign visitors. The corresponding total came to 18.42 million in 2011.

Japan set a record (for them) in the number of foreign tourists at over ten million in 2013.

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