Plum blossoms are blooming, and sakura season is simply across the nook!
Japan is seeing an enormous variety of vacationers getting into the nation, and ended 2023 with over 25,000,000 arrivals. Spring 2024 is anticipated to be much more chaotic than the earlier yr with excessive vacationer congestion in main locations reminiscent of Tokyo, Kyoto and Takayama.
EXO Japan carried out a stop-sell from 1st March-Could seventeenth in an effort to assure our excessive degree of high quality and help to the purchasers on the bottom. We all the time advocate visiting throughout non-peak seasons, or to contemplate totally different locations inside Japan the place purchasers can benefit from the spring season with out crowds.
Our employees retains rising and we hope our new members will discover EXO to be a fantastic and satisfying surroundings the place their work and energy are acknowledged. On January twenty second we went to the Nogi Shrine to obtain a blessing for the longer term success of our staff, for the protection of our enterprise and for the prosperity of our livelihood.
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The scarcity of chips for IC playing cards continues, and conventional Pasmo and Suica Playing cards are nonetheless not accessible. Travellers can nonetheless purchase the PASMO Passport by presenting their passport in main Tokyo stations, in addition to different IC Playing cards accessible in different cities of Japan. IPhone customers can simply add a digital PASMO to their pockets, however for the second there aren’t any simple digital options for Android customers.
We’re happy to have not too long ago introduced that EXO Japan has discovered an acceptable answer to offer IC playing cards for our 2024 arrivals.
- Mount Fuji Regulation Climbing Season 2024
As a way to defend the surroundings and scale back the congestion on the high of Mount Fuji, some new laws might be began for the following climbing season (mid July to mid-September 2024). Yoshida Path might be closed from 16:00 to 2:00 and there might be a each day cap on entry of 4.000 folks. Climbers with a mountain hut reservation will be capable of entry the path even when the each day cap has been already reached.
As well as, an entrance tax of two,000 JPY has turn out to be obligatory and the cash collected might be used for the upkeep and preservation of the mountain trails and amenities.
In accordance with the final forecast, the primary sakura blooming interval will start on March 22, reaching full bloom by March 29 in Tokyo and a few days later in Kyoto. Sapporo, the capital metropolis of northern Hokkaido, will attain full bloom round Could fifth.
