During the Bon holiday, entry to Narita Airport from South Korea will be reduced by 35% on August 23rd at 13:00
As Japan-Korea relations deteriorated, it was found that the number of tourists who visited Japan from Korea using Narita Airport during the Bon holiday period decreased by 35% compared to the same period last year. .
According to the Narita Airport Branch of the Immigration Bureau of Tokyo, the number of people who used international flights at Narita Airport during the 10 days from the 9th to 18th of this month, which is the time of the Bon Festival in Japan, was approximately 1,56,700 at the same time last year. Compared to 4.6%.
Of these, the number of destinations leaving Narita Airport was the largest in the United States, including Hawaii, with 110,000 people, and South Korea was more than 58,000, an increase of 4.3% from the same period last year.
On the other hand, the number of people who entered Narita Airport from Korea for travel, etc., decreased by about 35% to over 12,000.
The decrease in the number of visitors is conspicuous compared to the previous year, and Takashi Fukutani, Narita Airport Branch of Tokyo's Immigration and Immigration Bureau, said, “There may be an impact on Japan-Korea relations.”
In South Korea, there are also calls to refrain from traveling to Japan, where the relationship has deteriorated, and this has led to the movement of Korean airlines to shrink Japan routes or stop operations.