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Japan in September: where foreign visitors are fewer than usual

Each prefecture's foreign guest nights per day in September 2025, compared with that prefecture's own 2025 average. Nationally, September was at 87% of the yearly average.

Fewer foreign visitors than usual (38)

  • Yamagata — 47% of its yearly average
  • Niigata — 47% of its yearly average † high sampling error
  • Nagano — 49% of its yearly average
  • Fukushima — 62% of its yearly average
  • Akita — 63% of its yearly average
  • Hokkaido — 65% of its yearly average
  • Shiga — 67% of its yearly average
  • Iwate — 68% of its yearly average
  • Fukui — 72% of its yearly average † high sampling error
  • Oita — 72% of its yearly average
  • Gunma — 73% of its yearly average
  • Miyazaki — 73% of its yearly average
  • Miyagi — 74% of its yearly average
  • Toyama — 74% of its yearly average
  • Osaka — 74% of its yearly average
  • Saga — 75% of its yearly average
  • Tokushima — 77% of its yearly average
  • Ehime — 78% of its yearly average
  • Ishikawa — 78% of its yearly average
  • Yamanashi — 79% of its yearly average
  • Kagoshima — 80% of its yearly average
  • Aomori — 81% of its yearly average
  • Chiba — 81% of its yearly average
  • Tochigi — 82% of its yearly average
  • Nara — 82% of its yearly average
  • Nagasaki — 84% of its yearly average
  • Yamaguchi — 84% of its yearly average
  • Aichi — 84% of its yearly average
  • Gifu — 85% of its yearly average
  • Kagawa — 86% of its yearly average
  • Shizuoka — 86% of its yearly average
  • Kanagawa — 89% of its yearly average
  • Fukuoka — 90% of its yearly average
  • Okayama — 90% of its yearly average
  • Saitama — 90% of its yearly average
  • Tokyo — 91% of its yearly average
  • Shimane — 94% of its yearly average
  • Tottori — 94% of its yearly average

More than usual (4)

  • Ibaraki — 129% of its yearly average
  • Okinawa — 118% of its yearly average
  • Mie — 109% of its yearly average
  • Wakayama — 105% of its yearly average

Prefectures within 5% of their average are not listed. This compares months within each prefecture; it does not mean a prefecture is empty. Method.

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