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| Above, strolling in Asakusa's Nakamise Dori. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Japan is increasingly becoming a tourist "hot spot", especially among tourists from the United Kingdom.
Impact Magazine (U.K.) has an article on this. It is interesting to see Japan from another nation's perspective.
They begin with:
Japan is an island rich in culture, history and nature. Animé, sushi, technology, cherry blossom trees, Samurai and temples are just some aspects that have filtered through to a Western imagination of the country. The East Asian island hosts something for everyone, and in the last few years this has become far more well known.
“FOR FOOD, THERE IS NO QUESTION HOW JAPAN HAS BECOME THE FASTEST GROWING TRAVEL DESTINATION”
The majority of visitors are from other Asian countries. However, from September 2018 to this year, visitor arrivals just from the UK grew by 84.4%. A recent article by the Telegraph noted how tourist numbers have grown by 20 million in just 5 years. The Tourism Agency was set up in 2008 in order to focus a growth from tourism, and the original visitor target for 2020 rose from 20 million to 40 million in 2016.
To read more, go here.
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