Japan Sees 9% Increase In Tourists In January

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

January saw an increase in foreign visitors over the same time last year.

The Japan Times reported:

The estimated number of foreign visitors for January rose 9 percent from a year earlier to 2,501,500, a record for the month, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday. 

But the growth rate was the slowest since last March partly because the Lunar New Year, a major holiday season celebrated in China and elsewhere, which began later this year. The holiday period started in late January a year ago.

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