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 equivalent to Tokyo, Kyoto and Takayama.
EXO Japan carried out a stop-sell from 1st March-Might seventeenth in an effort to assure our excessive stage of high quality and help to the shoppers on the bottom. We all the time suggest visiting throughout non-peak seasons, or to think about completely different locations inside Japan the place shoppers can benefit from the spring season with out crowds.
Our workers retains rising and we hope our new members will discover EXO to be an ideal 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 long run success of our workers, 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 obtainable. Travellers can nonetheless purchase the PASMO Passport by presenting their passport in main Tokyo stations, in addition to different IC Playing cards obtainable 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 lately 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 shield the surroundings and scale back the congestion on the high of Mount Fuji, some new laws will likely be began for the subsequent climbing season (mid July to mid-September 2024). Yoshida Path will likely be closed from 16:00 to 2:00 and there will likely be a each day cap on entry of 4.000 folks. Climbers with a mountain hut reservation will be capable to entry the path even when the each day cap has been already reached.
As well as, an entrance tax of two,000 JPY has grow to be necessary and the cash collected will likely be used for the upkeep and preservation of the mountain trails and amenities.
In accordance with the final forecast, the principle 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 Might fifth.
