Why Do Chinese People Like To Travel To Japan?

During the national day of 2015, 4 million of the mainland Chinese traveled to Japan, with a per capita consumption of 15 thousand yuan. In October 1st, the grand commemoration of the victory of the war of resistance against Japan, the 70th anniversary National Day parade, just ended.

This makes many people wonder, did people forget so quickly the hardships that Japan brought to the Chinese nation? More importantly, the mainland Chinese enthusiasm for Japan in 2015 was not a sudden case, because in 2014, the number of people traveling to China in the mainland reached 2 million 409 thousand and 200, an increase of 83% over 2013, and 29 billion 114 million yuan in Japan.

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This shows that the enthusiasm of Chinese tourists to Japan on the mainland has always been very high, and shows a trend of explosive growth year after year. This phenomenon has to be thought deeply.

Some people attribute the behavior of Chinese tourists to Japan as a betrayal or traitor, so apart from the reasons of patriotism or non patriotism, what are the factors that induce mainland Chinese to enjoy their trip to Japan?

Japanese yen continues to depreciate

In June 2, 2015, 100 yen fell to 4.9196 against the renminbi, and the continued depreciation of the yen made the RMB appreciate relative continuously. This reduced the cost of mainland Chinese travel to Japan, and it would also be cheaper to sweep goods in Japan.

For example, the wedding ring of a pair of Cartire sells for more than ten thousand yuan at home, and only about 8000 yuan after tax rebates in Japan.

This may also explain why in the past 2015 National Day golden week, about 400 thousand of mainland tourists went to Japan to sweep goods, spending 100 billion yen in Japan, nearly 500 million yuan.

Traffic is more convenient.

With the constant outbreak of the enthusiasm of Chinese tourists to Japan, Chinese and Japanese businessmen have taken positive measures to explore the hidden business opportunities.

The sea and air routes have increased dramatically. Only Air China has more than 230 direct flights to Japan every week.

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The regular routes from Japan's Kansai International Airport were also opened by Chunqiu airlines, and China Southern Airlines launched charter flights to new millennium and Naha.

Convenient air routes are not the only option.

For a large number of super tour groups, there is a luxury cruise between China and Japan, which can take about 2000 to 3000 passengers at a time. This has stimulated some people to choose this way to spend a leisurely time in Japan tourism.

The way most favored by powerful enterprise groups, such as Shanghai and Eagle Technology, is preparing a tour group of 1500 people who went to Japan to enjoy cherry blossoms in early April 2016. They spent 5 days traveling around Osaka, Fukuoka and Nagasaki, but as the leading enterprises in the garment sewing equipment industry, their subordinate departments and branches were distributed in China, Japan, Germany and the United States. Their employees, partners and customers were scattered in many countries and regions. They wanted to organize these 1500 people into a real "tour group" to go to Japan. It was obviously not easy to coordinate with the way of flying. Especially when the cherry blossoms bloom in Japan every year.

The convenient pportation, sea and air routes between China and Japan have also stimulated the interest of mainland tourists in Japan.

Cost tax reduces consumption

The current Chinese shopping and shopping in Japan usually do not buy large products, but are very fond of electronic products, cold medicines, milk powder, rice cookers, toilet seats and luxury goods.

Some of the products purchased by the Chinese people are exported to Japan even after domestic production.

This phenomenon is due to the Japanese government's efforts to attract foreign tourists, especially tourists from the mainland of China, to Japan for tourism and consumption. It has exempted foreign tourists from the excise tax on most commodities and increased the number of duty-free shops. This prompted foreign tourists to shop relatively cheap in Japan.

On the other hand, China's domestic taxes are relatively high, prices are high, plus export tax rebates and import heavy tax protection, and so on, so that the same commodity in foreign countries will be cheaper to buy than in the domestic market.

For example, a series of Moutai has surged to more than ten thousand yuan, and it can be bought at more than 200 pounds in supermarkets in Britain.

For example, imported cars, domestic prices are often more than doubled abroad.

So when people arrive in Japan, they are like shopping heaven and sweeping goods.

The increasing enthusiasm of tourists to travel in Japan has much to do with the goods that Japan can buy better and cheaper products.

Geographically close to China

Japan is close to China. It takes several hours to get there by plane. It is relatively convenient to come and go, and Japan is also a developed country. For many people who want to go abroad to see the capitalist society, traveling to Japan is indeed a relatively affordable option.

Of course, the reasons behind the move of people to Japan to burn money are not limited to the above points.

But it is certain that if we only judge from the level of national sentiment, we may neglect more and deeper factors, so it is difficult to explain objectively.