According to government statistics, the number of international tourists who visited Japan in April increased to 66.6 percent of what it was in the same month in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak.
According to the Japan National Tourism Organization, there were an estimated 1,949,100 international visitors to Japan last month due to increased demand for travel during the cherry blossom season, an almost 14-fold increase from the previous year.
The total number of foreign tourists is the largest since the pandemic-related significant fall in arrivals in February 2020, it stated.
Japanese citizens traveling abroad totaled 560,200, up from 129,168 in April of last year but still 66.4 percent less than in the same month of 2019, according to the group.