Overnight stays at accommodation facilities in Japan by foreigners jumped 68.2 percent in March from a year earlier to about 12.70 million, the highest monthly figure on the back of a weaker yen, preliminary government data shows
The number of Japanese and foreign tourists staying at hotels and other accommodation facilities in June exceeded pre-pandemic monthly levels for the first time in more than three years, rising 1.0 percent from the same month in 2019, government data showed Monday.
The number of foreigners who stayed at hotels and other accommodation facilities in Japan topped 10 million in April for the first time since January 2020, government data showed on May 31, buoyed by a weaker yen and an increase in the number of international flights.
Visitors from overseas are coming back and at a relatively fast clip. Not here in Hawaiʻi but in Japan. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.