Foreign Tourists In Japan Set To Top 30 Million

Above, the 1968 Godzilla bought in Japan in 2015. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

If you are sitting on the fence on taking a trip to Japan to load up on Godzilla and other kaiju toys, you'd best take the plunge and take that trip.

Otherwise, those toys will be all snapped up by 30-40 million tourists and not you.

City-Cost.com reported:

TOKYO - The number of foreign tourists to Japan is set to rise for the seventh straight year and hit a record level of more than 30 million in 2018, the tourism minister said Friday.

"We are still at the midway point to hitting the goal (of 40 million visitors) but I am glad that the number is steadily growing," Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii said at a press conference. "We will strive to promote tourism as much as we can."

The government is targeting 40 million foreign visitors by 2020, the year the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics is held. Japan logged an all-time high of 28.69 million foreign visitors in 2017, up 19.3 percent from the previous year.

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