Japan "Hottest" 2020 Destination

Above, Wako department store in Ginza with Jonathan Belles in the foreground. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

For those who are "sitting on the fence" about taking a vacation trip to Japan, maybe 2020 is the year they jump off the fence and head on over.

According to eTurboNews, Japan is the "hottest" 2020 destination.

They begin with:

The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) announced that more than 31 million overseas travelers visited Japan in 2019, marking it an all-time record. 

“Japan continues to be a destination of tremendous interest for Americans, and that interest is clearly growing – as evidenced by the fact that we saw a 13% increase in the number of US travelers to Japan in 2019, when compared to the year before,” says Naohito Ise, Executive Director of the Japan National Tourism Organization in New York. 

Japan is one of the most hottest travel destinations of 2020 with cities and regions across the country appearing on some of the most prestigious “Where to Go” Lists of the year, including: Tokyo in the New York Times’ annual list of “52 Places to Go”; Tohoku in National Geographic’s list of best trips to take in 2020; and Okinawa in Condé Nast Traveler’s list of “20 Best Places to Go in 2020.”

If one is a Godzilla fan, maybe a trip to Japan is in order before everyone else buys up all the available Godzilla toys they can get their hands on.

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