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Bridge Garden — Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Tokyo, Japan

Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tourism in Japan is a major industry and contributor to the Japanese economy. There are 26 World Heritage Sites in Japan, including Himeji Castle, Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto and Nara. Popular attractions for foreigners include Tokyo and Osaka, Mount Fuji, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, ski resorts such as Niseko in Hokkaido, Okinawa, riding the Shinkansen and taking advantage of Japan's hoteland hotspring network ^[1].

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The 2024 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report ranked Japan 3rd out of 141 countries overall, which was the highest in Asia. Japan gained relatively high scores in almost all of the featured aspects, such as health and hygiene, safety and security, cultural resources and business travel ^[1].