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Ahead of the peak summer season, travel prices to Japan have plummeted. With the spread of rumors of a major earthquake in July, the number of tourists from China, including Taiwan and Hong Kong, has decreased significantly, and the Japanese travel market, which had been on a roll, is showing signs of freezing as even Koreans close their travel plans one after another.
According to the airline and travel industry on the 1st, round-trip tickets for low-cost airlines to Japan from late July to early August are sold below 100,000 won on the reservation platform. Considering that round-trip tickets between Seoul and Jeju are between 160,000 won and 170,000 won during the same period, you can travel to Japan at half the price. In Fukuoka, which has good access to hot springs such as Yufuin, the price of round-trip tickets from Incheon around the 20th of this month is only 90,000 won.
The hotel is also on sale at half price. As of the end of July, a four-star hotel in Fukuoka can be found for 150,000 won for two people. In particular, hotels near Osaka, which once cost well over 1 million won per night, were also cut by a third in the range of 300,000 won to 400,000 won.
Japan’s travel expenses plunged due to ghost stories of the great earthquake in July. The epicenter of the July earthquake’s ghost story was Tatsuki Ryo, a Japanese cartoonist who made headlines for predicting the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. In his book “The Future I Saw,” he said, “In July 2025, a devastating tsunami hits Japan. A major earthquake will occur in 2025.”
Rather, the reverse idea that we should see now as the right time to travel to Japan is also gaining traction. It is pointed out that the July earthquake is just a ghost story from a cartoon.
[Shin Ik-su Travel Reporter]
AloJapan.com