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Hotel Okura, a Japanese prestige hotel brand forms a strategic alliance with a resort hotel brand of Indonesia

An innovative tourism service for local residents to create a tour as ‘casts’ is launched in Shikoku, Japan

Hankyu Travel, a Japanese travel agent, will charter France-based cruise Ponant in 2027 for luxury international travelers to Japan

‘Linktivity,’ an e-ticket booking platform of Japan, starts dealing with transportation pass in Shanghai on global 400 OTAs

Hong Kong-based Klook raised another funds of $100 million to expand partnership with Google Cloud for AI and collaborations with tourism authorities in APAC

The average daily rate of hotels in Kyoto City reached record-high 20,195 yen with the occupancy rate of 78.5% in 2024

Bangkok-based Minor Hotels operating in 58 countries worldwide enters the luxury market of Japan in tie-up with Richmond Hotel operator

JR Kyushu, a railway company of Japan, and SkyDrive ally with Oita Prefecture for ‘Flying Car’ tour services

‘Disney Cruise’ in Japan will be operated by Yusen Group, an Asuka operator, offering 1250 cabins for 5,500 passengers

Highway bus WILLER is booked by 11 times more Chinese travelers to Japan during this year’s Chinese New Year holiday period than a year go

e-ticket management system provider ‘Japan ticket’ connects with Klook on API for pre-payment and instant booking for international travelers

Online booking for Shinkansen in the western Japan is now available on Apple Map

Sumitomo Mitsui Card reveals that credit card payment in Japan by international visitors increased year on year by 55% in 2024

Cherry blossom in Japan is expected to bloom earlier in this spring, and the earliest blooming may be seen in Tokyo on March 21

New amusement park ‘JUNGLIA OKINAWA’ will open on July 25 2025, differentiating prices between residents in Japan and international visitors

JTB and Airbnb Japan work together for reuse of abandoned houses to receive travelers in local regions

ANA plans to increase international flights by 8% in FY2025 to meet growing inbound travel demand

A key for 40 million international visitors in 2025 is how Japan National Tourism Organization encourages them to local regions

JAL will launch Narita-Chicago services on May 31 2025, and its group airline JTA launch its first international services to Taipei

JTB CEO talks about a business strategy in 2025, redefining its big picture of ‘Bringing People, Places and Possibilities Together’

Bookings of winter activities and experiences in Tohoku rapidly increased among inbound travelers to Japan during this year’s Chinese New Year

Kyoto City raises accommodation tax to 10,000 yen at most, expecting tax revenue of 12.6 billion yen a year

Japanese outbound travelers resulted in 13 million in 2024, about 70% of 2019

Tourism spending in Japan by international visitors exceeded 8 trillion yen in 2024, breaking the previous record in 2019

International visitors to Japan resulted in record-high 37 million in 2024, 5 million more visitors than 2019

AI suggests travel plans to avoid over-crowd in Hakone, a famous hot spring resort in Japan, developed by a local DMO and University of Tokyo

Record-high 82 taxi companies went bankrupt in Japan in 2024 mainly because of shortage of drivers and rise in fuel cost

Japan Tourism Agency Director talks about how Japan tries to overcome over-tourism

Shizuoka Bank and Yamanashi Chuo Bank create high-valued package tours for luxury travelers from Philippines

JTB forecasts Japanese travelers are expected to be up 2.9% to 320 million in 2025, while international visitors be up 8.9% to 40 million

A new 24-hours online service connecting between foreigners staying in a hotel and a doctor is launched in Japan

Interests in Osaka Kansai EXPO don’t rise in Japan, but more young people intend to visit several times

The duty-free procedure will be shifted to ‘refund method’ on November 1 2026, abolishing the maximum amount of a purchase

Japan Tourism Agency budget draft for FY2025 is up 5% to 53 billion yen, newly requesting a digital nomad promotion program

Japanese government eases visa rules for Chinese travelers, including a new 10-years-valid multiple visa and extension of stays in Japan

The most-satisfied hotel loyalty programs are Marriott Bonvoy globally and Toyoko INN in Japan

More than 60% of Japanese use smartphones for booking or purchasing travel contents

International conferences in Japan were up 2.5 times in 2023 with more in-person than hybrid for the first time since 2020

Japanese outbound travelers in November 2024 were 1.18 million, still down 30% compared to 2019

International visitors to Japan reached 33.4 million in November 2024, already exceeding the annual record of 31.9 million in 2019

Co-Founders of local experience booking platform ‘GetYourGuide’ talk about how they expect the Japanese market and why

Japanese IT solution provider for accommodation launches a function to connect with overseas booking management systems

Kyoto City opens a portal site for Kyoto citizen to encourage them to understand how important tourism is

JR EAST, a Japanese railway company, launches app ‘JRE WALLET’ to provide digital pass Suica users with personalized services

Global Power City Index 2024 shows Tokyo remains 3rd but narrows the gap of New York as 2nd

Hotel satisfaction survey 2024 in Japan announces that the top is Hotel Okura in the upper up-scale category

JAL and NEC demonstrate AI-powered Carry On Baggage Analysis Solution to avoid flight delay

An Okinawa-based DMC is launched for inbound adventure travel tours across Japan in cooperation with five local DMCs

Japan Tourism Agency creates new ‘Travel Etiquette’ and ‘Tourism Pictogram’ as guidances for travelers to promote sustainable tourism

JTB estimates that Japanese outbound travelers during this coming New Year holidays will increase by 13% year on year