{"id":169745,"date":"2025-03-25T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=169745&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-03-27T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:07:25","slug":"kyushu-sees-5-million-foreign-arrivals-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-sees-5-million-foreign-arrivals-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushu Sees 5 Million Foreign Arrivals in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Kyushu District Transport Bureau, 5,006,544 foreign nationals entered Kyushu&#8217;s seven prefectures in 2024, a 57% increase from the previous year and the second-highest figure on record after 2018. Standard entries via airports reached an all-time high of 4.26 million, surpassing 2018 levels, while cruise passenger arrivals remained low at 746,025, about half the 2018 figure, due in part to China&#8217;s economic slowdown. By country, South Korea topped the list with 2.47 million visitors (up 28% year-on-year), followed by China and Taiwan. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwtb.mlit.go.jp\/kyushu\/press\/00001_00996.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyushu District Transport Bureau<\/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\/2025\/03\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-international-terminal-departure_2025_WEB.jpg?resize=1400%2C984&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kyushu Sees 5 Million Foreign Arrivals in 2024, Second-Highest on Record\" width=\"1400\" height=\"984\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-international-terminal-departure_2025_WEB.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-international-terminal-departure_2025_WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-international-terminal-departure_2025_WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C720&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fnn_fukuoka-airport-international-terminal-departure_2025_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C540&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Kyushu District Transport Bureau, 5,006,544 foreign nationals entered Kyushu&#8217;s seven prefectures in 2024&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":169755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-169745","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\/169745","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=169745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}