Japan Tourism Agency announced that the total amount of Japanese travel consumption was up 47.5% year on year to 5.1 trillion JPY in the 4th quarter of 2022(October to December 2022), which recovered to a just 0.6% reduction compared to the same period of 2019. The total consisted of 4.1 trillion JPY for overnight trips (up 4.5% over 2019) and 90 million JPY for day trips (down 18.7% over 2019).
The total number of travelers was up 23.5% year on year to 111 million, which were 216.6% fewer travelers than 2019. Overnight travelers were up 29.5% to 65 million (down 5.6% over 2019), and day travelers were up 16.9% to 45.7 million (down 28.5% over 2019).
Travel spending a traveler was up 19.4% year on year to 45,147JPY, which were 19.2% more than even 2019. It was up 18.6% to 63,028 JPY for overnight trip (up 10.7% over 2019) and up 7.9% to 19,751JPY for day trip (up 13.7% over 2019).