Presented are two charts illustrating the number of travelers in three nations and the kinds of transportation they used over one decade, from 2005 to 2015.
Overall, while a wealth of visitors came to Japan more than to other countries in 2005, the opposite was true in 2015. Additionally, visitors preferred staying at resorts to backpacking over the surveyed period.
Looking more closely at the bar chart, there were 500,000 tourists who went to the U.S., equal to approximately one-half and two-thirds as many as from Japan and the U.K., respectively. Over the following ten years, there was significant convergence between the U.S. and the U.K., with both reaching 1,500,000 travelers. Meanwhile, the number of Japanese tourists fell dramatically by almost half, totaling 1,000,000 tourists.
Regarding types of holidays, in 2005, there were more than 1,600,000 visitors who chose resorts for their vacations, whereas only 400,000 people opted for backpacking. The number of sightseers staying at resorts rose gradually to around 2,500,000 in 2010 and declined rapidly to 1,200,000 over the latter part of the period. However, travelers choosing backpacking had a steady increase and intersected with the other line from around 2005 onward.