In Ching Ming Festival short holiday just past, the first choice for Chinese people to travel abroad is at the cherry blossoms season in Japan. In these days of WeChat moments “Travel Photography Competition”, the highest rate of appearance is also Japan. It can be said that more and more Chinese tourists visit Japan for sightseeing, and the growth rate is rapid.
According to official Japanese figures, more than 8 million Chinese tourists visited Japan in 2018, accounting for 1/4 of the total number of foreign visitors to Japan, and Chinese tourists topped the list of per capita consumption in Japan. Travel agencies have analyzed that tourism to Japan has continued to grow in recent years, largely due flights from shanghai to tokyo to a sharp increase in visa convenience in Japan.
Just after the Qingming holiday, Japan released a good news: in order to facilitate foreign tourists to travel to Japan, since May, Japanese visas have officially opened an online application function. Chinese tourists can enjoy this service for the first time and can apply for a single tourist visa at the Japanese Embassy in China online.
With the surge in the number of foreign tourists traveling to Japan, the number of visas for Japanese embassies and consulates in China has also increased sharply, with more than 7 million visas processed in the last year alone. In order to improve the efficiency of visa business, from May, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing began accepting tourists to apply for a single visa to Japan online, and will expand the scope of the business to all embassies and consulates in China after April next year.
Since 2002, Japan has become one of the favorite tourist destinations for Chinese citizens to travel abroad, not only because Japan is economically developed and rich in tourism resources, where public facilities are perfect, environmental protection is in place, service is heinous, and more importantly, Japan and China have similar cultural origins. Especially in the cherry blossoms season, there are countless Chinese tourists to Japan to enjoy the flowers.
Although there is still “dissatisfaction” with Japan in the minds of many book flights to bangkok online Chinese, there are still many people who are more “forgetful”, do not say anything, but are very honest, and when they arrive in Japan, they go shopping and shopping. According to statistics, Chinese tourists spent as much as 95.6 billion yuan in Japan in 2018, accounting for 34 percent of the total consumption of tourists to Japan.
Japan opened online visa business, in the world is the first time. Prior to the application of individual tourist visas to Japan, Chinese tourists need to submit many proof materials, such as employment certificate, real estate certificate, marriage certificate and so on. The key is to provide a deposit certificate of 5-100000 yuan, which usually takes 7 to 10 working days. After the opening of online visas, the process of applying for visas will be greatly simplified.
Since the May Day short holiday news this year, the number of visa applications in Japan has also ushered in a relatively large increase. Compared with May 1 last year, the number of Japanese signatures increased by nearly 40%. With the relaxation of visa materials and online visa processing, electronic visas will become more and more convenient for Chinese tourists to apply for Japanese visas. On a trip to Japan, do you want to make an appointment?