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| Above, a night view of the Tokyo Skytree from Asakusa. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Japan's tourist numbers are climbing during the past two months since restrictions on foreign visitors have been lifted.
The numbers for November almost doubled over the October numbers.
According to the Asahi Shimbun:
With the scrapping of most COVID-19 entry restrictions in October, the number of foreign visitors to Japan jumped to nearly 1 million in November, according to government data.
The number was about 1.9 times more than the previous month.
Around 730,000 of the 934,500 people who arrived from overseas in November were tourists.
The figure was about 2.5 times higher than October, according to preliminary figures released by
the Japan National Tourism Organization on Dec. 21.Visitors from South Korea were the largest at 315,400, accounting for one-third of all foreign arrivals. The number is about 1.5 times the figure in November 2019 before the pandemic.
That was followed by Taiwan at 99,500, the United States at 84,300 and Hong Kong at 83,000, according to the tourism organization.
The overall number of foreign visitors in November, however, represents only a little less than 40 percent of the 2,441,274 arrivals in Japan in the same month in 2019.
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