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Number of Inbound and Outbound Travelers
Last Update : 2017/1/20
On this page, you will find the number of international visitors to Japan and the number of Japanese travelers abroad.
Number of International Visitors to Japan
2015: 19.74 million
(Source: Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) "Visitors to Japan")
Link to the JNTO homepage: (Japanese only)
An inbound international visitor refers to foreign travelers entering Japan. This group consists of foreign nationals legally entering Japan minus foreign nationals who are residents of Japan (both according to the nationality-based statistics by the Ministry of Justice), plus those in transit.
(Source: Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) "Visitors to Japan")
Link to the JNTO homepage: (Japanese only)
An inbound international visitor refers to foreign travelers entering Japan. This group consists of foreign nationals legally entering Japan minus foreign nationals who are residents of Japan (both according to the nationality-based statistics by the Ministry of Justice), plus those in transit.
IVS estimates consumption by international visitors to Japan.
Outbound Japanese Travelers
IVS is aimed at obtaining baseline information for designing and evaluating measures to attract foreign tourists by assessing trends in consumption by international visitors to Japan.
IVS is made up of three quarterly surveys for different purposes:
A: National Survey: Designed to characterize international visitors to Japan as a whole by their attributes as well as by what they did and how – and how much – they spent in Japan.
B1: Regional Survey: Designed to characterize international visitors to each prefecture in Japan by their attributes as well as by what they did and how – and how much – they spent in Japan.
B2: Cruise Survey: Designed to characterize international visitors to Japan with landing permission for cruise ship tourists by their attributes as well as by what they did and how – and how much – they spent in Japan.
A: National Survey: Designed to characterize international visitors to Japan as a whole by their attributes as well as by what they did and how – and how much – they spent in Japan.
B1: Regional Survey: Designed to characterize international visitors to each prefecture in Japan by their attributes as well as by what they did and how – and how much – they spent in Japan.
B2: Cruise Survey: Designed to characterize international visitors to Japan with landing permission for cruise ship tourists by their attributes as well as by what they did and how – and how much – they spent in Japan.
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