Half a year after the declaration was lifted In Miyagi, the number of visitors from outside the prefecture on Saturdays and Sundays for three consecutive holidays doubled compared to May.

Half a year after the declaration was lifted In Miyagi, the number of visitors from outside the prefecture on Saturdays and Sundays for three consecutive holidays doubled compared to May at 11:00 on November 25.

It has been half a year in 25 days since the state of emergency was lifted nationwide in May.

After the declaration was lifted in Miyagi Prefecture, the number of people coming in from outside the prefecture for sightseeing has increased, and the number of Saturdays and Sundays during the last three consecutive holidays has doubled compared to Saturdays and Sundays in May.

The state of emergency was lifted in Miyagi Prefecture on May 14, and then lifted nationwide on May 25, and 25 days after that, it will be exactly half a year.

During this time, NHK analyzed the location information data of mobile phones compiled by NTT DoCoMo in a privacy-protected manner in order to investigate how the number of people coming to Miyagi Prefecture changed.

As a result, since the declaration was lifted in Miyagi Prefecture, the number of people coming from outside the prefecture has increased on Saturdays and Sundays, and Saturdays and Sundays on the 21st and 22nd of this month, which were three consecutive holidays, are Saturdays and Sundays on May 16th and 17th. In comparison, it turned out that it increased more than twice.

Since the declaration was lifted, the most frequent holidays were Saturdays and Sundays, which are four consecutive holidays from September 19, but the number of three consecutive holidays this time is close to that.

On the other hand, it has decreased by 28% compared to the three consecutive holidays of the same period last year, and has not returned to the pre-epidemic level.

Professor Kuniaki Sasaki of Waseda University's Faculty of Creative Science and Engineering, who is familiar with the analysis of the movement of people, said, "In the last six months, the number of people in tourist destinations has returned considerably, if not the same as last year, especially during the last three consecutive holidays. , It can be said that the movement of people was active in various places except Hokkaido. "