Expenditure on New Year travel in Japan set to reach record high

travelers are likely to take a longer holiday, as Dec 28 and 29, and Jan 4 and 5 fall on the weekend

Fair, this compensates the very short Golden Week of the last 2 years!

Our holidays will start from Dec. 20th and we're back to Japan on Jan. 5th, only 2 weeks to rest before flying back to DC to attend the Presidential inauguration.

So I guess all this talk about food and utilities being too high was bunk.

So that's it? People have only 43.000 yen to spend during a 9 day holiday? And that's with the bonus month and supposedly record high salary increases. What exactly are they going to do with that 43.000 yen? I checked out hotels in Tokyo for 2 nights, they are 30 to 40 thousand per night, many of them I stayed at before corona and they were under 10 thousand then. Going back and forth twice is cheaper than staying at a hotel for just one night

People have only 43.000 yen to spend during a 9 day holiday? 

That is what we normally spend on food/house.

It's sad that Japan has become such a poor country. A lot of people can't afford to go anywhere. They are just surviving.

they are 30 to 40 thousand per night, many of them I stayed at before corona and they were under 10 thousand then.

Not to mention that's a per person rate which makes no sense since the room doesn't get any larger if you pay for more people.

4% fewer domestically, 37% fewer heading overseas, even though its a 9 dayer for many. Sad to see.

For those travelling domestically 43000 yen won't go very far. Its a day trip from Osaka to Tokyo Disneyland on the Shinkansen, provided you eat onigiri and don't buy souvenirs.

Hotels have been outrageously expensive this year. That plus all of the "cheap" hotels are booked solid for months. My family booked a parking spot at an onsen for 3000yen a month ago. We could sleep in our van overnight and use the onsen in the evening/morning for a little extra. We saved a ton though it was a rough sleep lol

The number of holidaymakers traveling abroad is expected to rise by 60,000 people to 520,000 but that is down approximately 37 percent from the 2019/2020 holiday period.

Japan's plummeting standard of living may not be the only factor here. Gaigoku is a bit too kowai these days and old people like to stay at home.

So based on this report only 22.5% of Japanese travel during the new year holiday?! I think it's higher or more like 35%.

If I take a trip down the road to the next city does that count as travel?

There are a certain number of people in neighboring countries who want to believe that Japan has been destroyed. This is because they have a persecution complex and believe that Japan has looked down on them. It's a trivial matter for Japanese people lol

This summer I went to LA to see Shohei Otani.

It seems that the number of Japanese tourists in LA has increased by 93% compared to last year.

If you ask me if I want to go abroad now, there aren't many countries I want to go to, considering the security situation.

Below's REAL inflation rate, not official Govt. numbers, usually with a 2 handle! Japan's become so poor as Yen has lost so much purchasing power relative to real/commodities assets, about 5x vs. in less than 5yrs.

average amount spent per person for domestic travel in Japan during the New Year vacation period is expected to rise 4.9 percent from a year earlier to a record 43,000 yen due to an increase in accommodation costs, a travel agency said Thursday

Surveys are like election polls. Wrong.

Have you seen how worthless the Yen is? There's your answer. Taro's family dream trip to Hawai now costs at least that much more if not double than pre pandemic when the Yen was still viable.

Heading to Taipei, Hanoi, and Siem Reap over the holidays. Grateful that prices are cheaper in Vietnam and Cambodia than in Japan this holiday period. Taipei is not cheap, though.