Japan re-opening tourism, but with limits

Starting this Saturday, Japan will increase its daily cap on tourists from 20,000 to 50,000, and for the first time since it began allowing visitors in June, after a shutdown of more than two years.

In addition, while visitors will still be required, for now, to come as part of a package tour, tour members will now be free to wander on their own rather than being required to have a guide with the group at all times.

Japan’s tourism industry is badly in need of a restart after the shutdown, and the guided-tour only arrangement has not been popular; only a bit over 8,000 foreign tourists arrived in the country in June and July.

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