The bar chart illustrates how many tourists visited three museums from 2000 to 2005.
In general, there was an upward trend in the passenger numbers of both Met and National Museums, whereas the Edo-Tokyo showed a considerable fall trend over 5 years. Another interesting point to note is that the National’s visitors were the lowest of the three museums in 2000, but then it increased dramatically in number more than the others in 2005.
Looking at the details, as regards the Edo-Tokyo Museum, the numbers of travelers remained stable at around 13 million in 2000 and 2001. After that, despite decreasing significantly to around 6 million visitors in 2003, it rapidly rose to 10 million in 2005.
If we look at the Met and National museums, it is clear that the data went in opposite directions. The number of passengers increased considerably by approximately 5 million from 2000 to 2003, after which it remained stable for 2 years and then sharply increased until 2005, when it reached 16 million. On the other hand, the Met museum in New York showed 12 million travelers in 2000, but then it halved the figures and maintained them over 2 years. When looking at the following year, the number of visitors expressed the remarkable growth of 14 million people in 2005.