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The Japanese government has announced that it will remove all restrictions on the entry of foreign tourists from the 11th of next month.
It is now possible to travel to Japan personally without a visa, but it has been 2 years and 6 months since entry was restricted due to the spread of Corona 19.
Correspondent Hyun Young-jun from Tokyo delivers.
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This afternoon, it is Odaiba, a tourist destination that spans the outskirts of Tokyo.
It is a tourist attraction in Tokyo and a representative tourist attraction popular with foreigners.
However, compared to before the Corona 19, the number of foreign tourists visiting Japan has decreased to 5%.
Japan was geographically close to Korea, has many historical tourist destinations, and developed a natural environment and food culture, which made it a country many Koreans visited.
The travel route to Japan, which was completely blocked due to Corona, but was gradually lifted from this year, was completely closed after two and a half years.
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“From October 11, Japan will ease border controls (like the United States) and resume visa-free and private travel.”
In Japan, foreign tourists were welcomed to stimulate the sluggish economy, and tourists were also less burdened with lower prices than before due to the weak yen.
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“I think Japan has done a good job regulating the corona virus, and now (tourism) is about to resume, so I think it’s a very appropriate time.”
Expectations for this train, which had already been foretold, have already been reflected, and the reservation rate for other countries increased by 173%, while Japan surged by more than 700%.
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“We are seeing that there will be a lot more reservations in the future than we have made so far, and we expect that it will be an opportunity for overseas travel to become more normal, starting with Japan.”
Japanese local governments have also requested the expansion of air routes to increase the number of tourists visiting Korea.
In 2017 and 2018, before the No-Japan Movement due to worsening relations between the two countries, the number of Korean tourists to Japan averaged more than 7 million per year.
This is Young-Jun Hyun from MBC News from Tokyo.
Video coverage: Kim Jin-ho / Video editing: Park Cheon-gyu
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