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| Above, Nagasaki's Hypocenter Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It used to be that foreign visitors to Japan just confined their visits to metropolitan areas such as Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
That is now changing as more foreign visitors are venturing outside of metropolitan areas to see different places and experience different things.
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| Above, the Saikai Bridge in Kyushu. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The Japan Times reported:
About 18 million foreign travelers visited regions outside of the Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka metropolitan areas in 2018, some 40 percent more than the number of travelers who visited only those metropolitan areas, an annual government report showed Friday.
The figure marked steady growth from the 10.2 million visits logged in 2015, according to the 2019 white paper on tourism, which was adopted at a Cabinet meeting the same day.
Of the 31.19 million foreign travelers to Japan last year, 57.7 percent visited regions outside of the three metropolitan areas, and they spent more than ¥1 trillion.
The report found that foreign travelers seeking experiences, including skiing, visiting hot springs or engaging in nature tourism, have a strong tendency to visit nonmetropolitan areas.
Such travelers also tend to spend more per head than those who do not engage in experience-based consumption.To read more, go here.
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