Japan Switch｜45-day island tour attracts 18 people to spend 5.4 million "revenge tourism"

Japan eased tourist entry restrictions in June, attracting many Hong Kong people to join tour groups to Japan.

The 45-day tour around Japan organized by "Tourist Master" Xiang Mingsheng will start tomorrow (15th) morning. Although the group fee is close to 300,000 yuan, there are still 18 group members, that is, the group fee has reached 5.4 million yuan.

Xiang described the reaction as unexpected, believing that Hong Kong people were "too hungry" and wanted "revenge travel".

He pointed out that many members of the group have prepared more than one million yen for a crazy "shopping", and it is expected that members of the group will "go and return with one basket".

▼Part of the itinerary of the 45-day Japan island tour▼

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Xiang Mingsheng: Coming to Japan after two years is like a lifetime

Xiang Mingsheng, the tourism ambassador of Sendai and Kagawa, Japan, will be the first to go to Japan today to take care of the group members. In the past, he traveled to Japan almost every month, but he finally came to Japan after more than two years. Promote the tourism industry, and predict that the local tourism bureau will prepare a welcome ceremony for the group members. It is a large-scale festival that is being held. I believe it will be an unforgettable experience in a lifetime.

Xiang Mingsheng, the tourism ambassador for Sendai and Kagawa prefectures in Japan, said that 18 people have signed up for a 45-day tour around Japan.

(Photo provided by Xiang Mingsheng)

Daily tour fee $298,888 Group members and retirees

Xiang Mingsheng said that after learning about the customs clearance in Japan as early as May, he had planned to travel around the island in Japan for 45 days. Many friends around him actively wanted to participate after learning about it. Therefore, he began to prepare a tour group, emphasizing that he must "eat well and live well". Although the group fee was 298,888 yuan, 18 group members had signed up, and the response was unexpected. Many of them were retirees, and said with a smile, "Everyone wants to travel in revenge."

There are group members who preorder more than 1 million yen for shopping

Xiang Mingsheng also pointed out that the tour group included food and package, and some group members prepared more than 1 million yen (equivalent to about 57,000 Hong Kong dollars) for shopping. I haven't been there for a year and a half." He predicted that the group members would "go back to several groups in one tank".

▼On June 24th, the first group of 15 members of the Japanese tour group departs▼

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The 7-day quarantine at the hotel in Hong Kong should be regarded as "rest and sleep"

At present, Japan's epidemic prevention measures are looser than those in Hong Kong. Xiang Mingsheng pointed out that group members basically do not need to wear masks in outdoor activities, unless many people gather or enter indoor places. Hong Kong people who have worn masks for more than two years believe that they can relax more.

He also pointed out that although they have to stay in a quarantine hotel for 7 days after returning to Hong Kong, many members of the group think, "Play for 45 days, isolate for 7 days first, and rest and sleep."

▼On June 22, Hong Kong's first Japanese tour group set off under the epidemic▼

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Japan Switch｜Tourists can have a late night snack near the hotel and consider returning to the countryside: You can go to Japan Switch twice a year｜And then there is a Hong Kong tour group departing for a couple to exchange 1 million yen for a big shopping: pre-buy a Japanese switch｜ Dongyingyou said that the hotel isolation on the 7th became the biggest obstacle to outbound travel, and urged to change the home isolation switch in Japan | The first group arrived in Tokyo in the afternoon with 400,000 Yen food and toys to buy: no return to the countryside for two years