The rapid increase of tourists visiting Japan is unprecedented momentum worldwide, and it looks like this on a graph

byLuka Siemionov

In addition to seeing the appearance of foreign tourists everywhere in the city, in Kyoto it is necessary to take an accommodation in Osaka to do Kyoto sightseeing without being able to make hotel reservations .... The increase in the number of tourists visiting Japan, from the record since 1995, is still unprecedented momentumIt is known.

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Tourists visiting Japan between 1995 and 2012 increased by 6% per year, and the number increased from 3.3 million to 8.4 million. Especially in the past 5 years, the number of tourists exceeds 20 million people, and this change is said to be the most remarkable change among the surveys conducted since 1995. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), there are 28.7 million people visiting Japan annually in 2017.

byTim Gouw

However, in 1995 when UNWTO began recording, it is the era when the number of tourists is the smallest in the world, and the total number of travelers in the whole world was about half that in 2017.

This is a graphical representation of the increase in travelers in Japan (purple), the world (light blue), the United States (deep purple), Spain (blue), India (light purple), and China (navy blue). The horizontal axis shows each year and the vertical axis shows the increase rate of travelers when compared with 2012. The increase in travelers to Japan and India is prominent, but the graphs of Japan are particularly prominent.


Increase of tourists to Japan is related to relaxation of visa issuance requirements, especially for tourists from China. In addition to the increase in China's middle class travelers due to easier visa acquisition, tourists from other parts of the world also increased rapidly. The graph below shows the increase in the number of tourists from China (purple), Korea (light blue), Taiwan (deep purple), Hong Kong (blue), the United States (navy blue), Thailand (light purple) from 2012 to 2016 thing.


Meanwhile, tourists are overflowing in Kyoto and Osaka,Tourism pollutionIt is also a problem. The trend of the rapid increase of travelers to Japan is not expected to change soon and it is thought that it is also possible to reach the goal of the Abe administration to make foreign visitors to Japan 40 million by 2020 It is done.