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| Above, the Wako department store in Ginza. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It is a far cry from pre-pandemic levels, but Japan is on the road to recovery in foreign visitor arrivals.
Reuters reported:
TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Visitors to Japan climbed to nearly 1.5 million in January, the national tourism agency said on Wednesday, showing an accelerating recovery in tourism after the government scrapped COVID-19 curbs in October.
The number of foreign visitors for both business and leisure rose to 1,497,300 last month from 1,370,000 in December, the Japan National Tourism Organization said in a release. More than a third of the arrivals were from South Korea.
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