290,000 Foreign Visitors Came To Japan In October

Above, the Asahi Beer Hall and Tokyo Skytree. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Once Japan lifted its restrictions on foreign visitors, the numbers of travelers into the country soared.

The numbers are now in and the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) has provided them to the Japanese media.

From the Asahi Shimbun:

Around 290,000 foreign tourists entered Japan in October, 15 times the figure for September, as the government eased its COVID-related border restrictions, data showed.

Specifically, 288,909 foreigners visited Japan in October for sightseeing purposes, for a daily average of 9,320, according to statistics released by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan on Nov. 15.

In September, the daily average was 634, for a total of about 19,000 foreign tourists.

Overall in October, 498,600 travelers from abroad entered Japan, about 2.4 times more than the 206,500 who arrived in September, the Japan National Tourist Organization (JNTO) said on Nov. 16.

The number was 22.5 times the figure for the same month in 2021, and also the largest since February 2020, when Japan started to impose border restrictions to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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