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| Above, a view of Tokyo's Sumida River from the Tokyo Sky Tree. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Japan's tourism industry received some good news when the October numbers of foreign tourism were tabulated.
Japan tourism numbers has exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time since restrictions were lifted.
From Nippon.com:
Tokyo, Nov. 15 (Jiji Press)--The number of visitors to Japan in October exceeded the pre-COVID-19 pandemic level for the first time, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Wednesday.
An estimated 2,516,500 foreign nationals visited the Asian nation during the reporting month, up 0.8 pct from October 2019, before the spread of COVID-19. The latest figure was up by around fivefold from the same month last year.
After plummeting in 2020, the number of such visitors has been on a sharp rebound since autumn last year, in response to the relaxation and eventual removal of COVID-19-related border control measures and the weakening of the yen.
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