No. of travelers to reach record high as 10-day Golden Week holiday begins

Thai. And you?

Fabulous news for the Tourism industry! And who in Japan does not want to celebrate the Emperor's abdication and ascension of Naruhito? Once in a lifetime parties, something to tell Great grandchildren about.

Happy Holidays Japan!

4 days on North

4 days on South

2 days at Home.

I refuse to pay 300% more for flights or hotels, there should be a legal cap to it.

Anyway, Tokyo is quite nice during Golden Week, and Obon, and Oshogatsu.

I have to work during the holiday. Someone has to keep things going! I will take my vacation when possible.

Unprecedented levels, unprecedented that workers get a whole week off, plus a day or 3....with work In between. It's a almost a disaster. Thank the gods it only happens once a generation not yearly. It's UNPRECEDENTED.

Yep! The roads around Tokyo and Chiba are definitely quieter today.

Half a million out of 120million going overseas, 24 million on domestic trip, same as last year, its hardly huge.

If I was Japanese, I would do a travel-strike... Holiday-Yellow-Jackets action. No doubt! I would try to convince people not to move and go anywhere during these 10 days. I do hate how tour operators, flight companies and entities of the travel business squeeze and profit out of the self and company-imposed social limitation to the rights of Japanese workers. Flight tickets have been sold at 300-400% their usual price over the past two months, exploiting this weakness. And people have been forced to book months (even 6 months in advance) hotels, trips and services. It is absurd that people here can't or won't take more than six days and mostly over GW to have a break because scared of the system. Do you realize that some advertisement jokingly says that 'if you do 10 days of holiday you are gonna end up dumb"? Use your damn rightful paid holiday and send to hell your bosses and before them your colleagues, I'd say.

Fabulous news for the Tourism industry! And who in Japan does not want to celebrate the Emperor's abdication and ascension of Naruhito? Once in a lifetime parties, something to tell Great grandchildren about.

Why would this ever get a downvote?

For small medium businesses its a tad bonkers, cuckoo. Hell on earth closing for ten days.

Foreign employees have agreed to work the break, kudos, contractually our overseas customers must come first.

For many though, a once in a lifetime experience to witness Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, ascendency to the throne. So Tuesday /Wednesday is party time to celebrate.

What’s the point of paying extra and going to packed places? Just stay at home and take it easy. That’s what I’m gonna do.

Definitely not traveling during GW peak times.