https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Japan#Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Japan#Statistics Add up tourists from China, Taiwan, and Hon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Japan#Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Japan#Statistics Add up tourists from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and you'll see that they make up half of the people visiting Japan. As for why, I can speculate: These places are geographically close to Japan, so you're looking at under 5 hours of flying instead of 10 to 20 hours from Europe and North America. Japan is a safe country to travel around, unlike much of the world. Although the per-capita visitation rate from China is much lower than Taiwan and HK, having some middle-class people in a population of a billion means that some will afford to and choose to visit Japan.