The Japan National Tourism Organisation has announced that the number of visitors to Japan in 2016 was 24.04 million people.

This represents the largest on record since JNTO started to keep the statistics in 1964.

Over the last three years, the number of visitors has grown 2.4 times.

Contributing to this significant growth were international conferences and events held in Japan as well as continuous promotional activities to attract tourists.

With demand for tourism growing, and as the host country of the Rugby World Cup 2019 and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Japan is enjoying increasing international attention.