{"id":929453,"date":"2026-07-12T07:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929453\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:56:18","slug":"japan-wants-60-million-tourists-but-china-isnt-sending-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929453\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan wants 60 million tourists, but China isn\u2019t sending them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japan<\/a> has found a new export industry and it doesn\u2019t come off an assembly line. It arrives by plane, spends freely and is, increasingly, what Tokyo is banking its economic future on.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last year, 42.7 million foreign visitors arrived in the country, a record that shattered the previous year\u2019s high by nearly 16 per cent. Now Tokyo wants to turn that surge into something more lasting: a permanent pillar of growth to rival, or even outlast, the industries that built modern Japan.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To achieve that ambition, the government has set a target of 60 million arrivals a year by 2030, with billions being funnelled into the infrastructure needed to get there.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At Narita Airport, the main international gateway serving the Japanese capital, crews are extending the second runway to 2,500 metres (8,200 feet) and building an entirely new 3,500-metre (11,480-foot) third runway, as part of a multi-year expansion that aims to push annual capacity from 340,000 flights to half a million.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tourists travel on a subway train to Tokyo\u2019s city centre from Narita International Airport. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a87058c7-462c-40bb-8111-47dc10d28f14_5d38dfdf.jpg\" title=\"Tourists travel on a subway train to Tokyo\u2019s city centre from Narita International Airport. Photo: AFP\"\/>Tourists travel on a subway train to Tokyo\u2019s city centre from Narita International Airport. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rail planners, meanwhile, are working to nearly double train frequency between Narita and central Tokyo by the early 2030s, with new extensions set to link two lines directly to Haneda Airport to the capital\u2019s south, aiming to make domestic transfers easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan has found a new export industry and it doesn\u2019t come off an assembly line. 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