According to official statistics for September 2017, the number of Japanese travelers increased by 5.4% for South Korea (reaching 219,900), by 4.2% for Taiwan (reaching 164,400) and by 16.4% for Hong Kong (reaching 117,900) on a year-on-year basis.
There was a double-digit increase in the number of Japanese travelers to South Korea between June 2016 and March 2017, following the first year-on-year growth during the past 42 months in February 2016, and the monthly results were up in August & September 2017 after a downward trend since April 2017. For Taiwan, the up-and-down trend continued. The number of Japanese travelers to Hong Kong has been increasing since February 2017.
The illustrations below show the monthly changes in the number of Japanese travelers for the three destinations:
