Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) announced that the number of international visitors in Japan 2023 reached 25,066,100, almost 80% of the result in 2019 (31,882,049). Compared to 2022, more than 20 million increased at once.
The number of international visitors in December 2023 was up 8.2% to 2,734,000 compared to the same month of 2019, recording the most visitors on a single month basis since the pandemic happened.
The largest source market in December 2023 continued to be South Korea with 782,700 visitors (up 215.7% over 2019), followed by Taiwan with 399,500 visitors (up 14.7%), China with 312,400 (down 56.0%), Hong Kong with 251,100 visitors (up 0.6%) and U.S. with 183,200 visitors (up 26.8%).
Visitors from 13 of 23 major source markets reached record-high for December, and visitors from Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia resulted in record-high on a single month basis.
According to OAG, international flights arriving in six major airports in Japan (Narita, Haneda, Kansai, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo) in December 2023 recovered to a 15.2% decrease (18,821 flights), and available seats to a 14.6% reduction (4.41 million seats) compared toNovember 2019.
Haneda handled 21.3% more flights (4,393) and 13.1% more available seats (1,066,560) than December 2019.
The following graph shows international arrivals by month and by source market.
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JNTO資料（対2019年比）より
JNTO資料（対2022年比）より
The following graph shows changes of international arrivals by source market in 2023.
2023年 国・地域別の訪日外国人数推移（2019年同月比）：JNTO資料より
2023年 国・地域別の訪日外国人数推移（2019年同月比）：JNTO資料より
2023年 国・地域別の訪日外国人数推移（2019年同月比）：JNTO資料より
2023年 国・地域別の訪日外国人数推移（2019年同月比）：JNTO資料より
The following graph shows international arrivals in the last decade.
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