The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in September increased 11.7-fold from a year earlier to 206,500, government data show, with the figure likely to jump in the coming months after Japan removed almost all its COVID-19 entry restrictions earlier this month.
Japan removes its cap on daily arrivals and its ban on individual, non-prearranged trips as it seeks to revive the country s struggling inbound tourism sector by easing its COVID-19 border controls.
Japan is reviewing its border control policy of keeping daily entries below 50,000 and will remove it in the "not so distant future," according to a government spokesman
The Japanese government is making final arrangements to resume accepting foreign tourists in June, further relaxing its border controls imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic, sources close to the matter say.
Japan will accept small-scale tours for vaccinated tourists from the United States, Australia, Thailand and Singapore as a trial later this month toward the full-scale reception of foreign visitors planned for June, the government says