According to Hana Tour, the country's largest travel agency, South Korean tourists to Japan jumped 121.5 percent in October from a year earlier. Tourists to Japan had plunged since the Fukushima nuclear disaster which devastated northeastern Japan in 2011.
Market watchers attributed the rise in the number of South Korean travelers to Japan in part to the Japanese government's easing of rules on consumption tax exemption for foreign tourists.
Mode Tour Network and Interpark Tour also said they saw tourists departing for Japan surge 120 percent and 199 percent in October from a year earlier, respectively.
An employee at Hana Tour said: "The number of tourists visiting Japan will continue to rise as the yen is expected to remain weak against the Korean won and South Korean tourists used to flock to Japanese hot spring resorts in winter."
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