{"id":151255,"date":"2023-01-27T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151255&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:10:03","slug":"foreign-visitors-arriving-in-kyushu-returns-to-90-of-2019-level","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/foreign-visitors-arriving-in-kyushu-returns-to-90-of-2019-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Visitors Arriving in Kyushu Returns to 90% of 2019 Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kyushu District Transport Bureau announced on January 24 that the number of foreign arrivals in Kyushu in December 2022 was 176,559 (preliminary figures). The number represents 90% of the 197,110 in the same month of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before the new coronavirus disaster. This is the second consecutive month that the number of cases had exceeded 100,000, following November of the same year, when the number exceeded 100,000 for the first time in two years and nine months. The total number of inbound visitors in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2022 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(preliminary figures) was 402,196, a 90% decrease from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Editor: Note that these figures are for foreign arrivals into Kyushu directly and do not include foreigners entering Japan in other parts of the country. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXZQOJC245MS0U3A120C2000000\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkei<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-image_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=1400%2C1051&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Foreign Visitors Arriving in Kyushu Returns to 90% of 2019 Level \" width=\"1400\" height=\"1051\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-image_2022_WEB.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-image_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-image_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C769&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-image_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English regularly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. 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The number represents 90% of the 197,110 in the same month of 2019 before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":149863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-151255","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}