TOKYO, June 22 (Xinhua) — The estimated variety of international guests to Japan got here to 1,898,900 in May, equal to 68.5 p.c of the May 2019 determine previous to the COVID-19 outbreak, authorities knowledge confirmed.
May is taken into account an low season following Japan’s cherry blossom season, however the month’s determine surpassed April’s restoration degree of 66.6 p.c, marking the best quantity since February 2020 when arrivals started to plummet because of the pandemic, the Japan National Tourism Organization mentioned Wednesday.
Compared to May 2022, the variety of international guests this 12 months elevated 12.9-fold, it added.
Meanwhile, the variety of Japanese who went abroad reached 675,700, a five-fold enhance from May final 12 months, however nonetheless 53.0 p.c lower than the identical month in 2019.