More than one million travelers used the international terminals at Narita Airport near Tokyo during the yearend and New Year holidays. That is almost back at levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Preliminary figures from immigration officials show about 1,015,000 people used the airport in Chiba Prefecture for international trips between December 26 and January 4. Roughly 530,000 people left Japan in the period, while about 490,000 arrived.
The figure rose 5 percent from a year earlier. The total was about 98.6 percent of the number of travelers seen in fiscal 2019, or before the pandemic.
Almost 350,000 were Japanese and slightly more than 665,000 were foreigners.
However, the number of people using flights to China fell about 20 percent from a year ago.
AloJapan.com