Visit Japan.com

About Visit Japan.com and tourist info

JNTO
Japan National Tourism Organisation
Travel Agency
1-6-4, Yotsuya,
Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 160-0004
Japan
+81 3 3201 3331
+81 50 3816 2787 24h visitor hotline

mail: press@jnto.go.jp

#VisitJapan

more about Japan
Phone Book of the World.com
Wikipedia
Gov via Whitepages.jp Whitepages.jp

Japan has a 29,751 km coastline along the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranian
26 Unesco World Heritage sites

Top 10 Tourist Attractions of Japan

1. 01
   Mount Fuji
2. 02
   Fushimi Inari Taisha
3. 03
   Tokyo city center
4. 04
   Kyoto Temples and Gardens
5. 05
   Nara

1. 01
   Osaka Castle
2. 02
   Hiroshima Peace Memorial
3. 03
   Okinawa Islands
4. 04
   Sapporo Snow Festival
5. 05
   Hakone Hotsprings and views

History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Japan

Visit Japan.com
Domain registration date: 04-04-1998
The domain was registered during the early years of the internet, eventually before JNTO had the idea to make a website

Japan.travel
Domain registration date: 10-07-2006

Visit Japan.jp
Domain registration date: 26-01-2016 it is possible that JNTO forgot to renew in 2023
Domain now hold by Onamae, a japanese domain company.

JapanWelcomesYou.com new Domain registration date: 01-11-2022

Timeline

1964 Foundation of JNTO coinciding with the preparation of the Tokyo Olympics with the mission to promote tourism and develop international exchanges

1967 first JNTO overseas office opened in New York

1980s Opening of
International Sales offices

1985 Expo 85 in Tsukuba

1998 Registration of the domain
VisitJapan.com
04-04-1998

VisitJapan.com owned by DongChang.org a webdesign company from Korea

2000 The Gov of Japan makes tourism a strategic economic pilar

2002 VisitJapan.com becomes a tiny commercial tourism website

2003 Launch of the "Visit Japan Campaign" and the site Visit Japan.jp

2005 extension .travel created with the idea to make an alternative to the established .com TLD mainly for website in the Tourist industry.

In the following years hundreds of other new sTLD are launched creating major competition among new niche TLDs

While .com is recognised all over the world and ccTlds like .jp are know in and beyond their respective countries (Japan) sTLDs also called sponsored TLDs are much less popular.

There are only 18.000 active .travel domains, less than 0.01% of all active websites

In recent years a new trend can be observed of countries or cities making a strategic shift away from .travel to .com, mainly "visitX.com" prioritizing user familiarity,
SEO benefits, and broader marketing effectiveness.

2009 small private website
VisitJapan.com stops working

2015 VisitJapan.com domain reactivated without serious content

2015 redesign of the site Japan.travel

2018 The popular site
VisitJapan.jp stops working eventually due to a domain renewal issue domain aquired by a Japansese domain company Onamae

2020 Visit Japan.com offline again

2020 World affected by Corona

2021 VisitJapan.com listed for sale sales page sponsored by a out of topic video

2022 Repoening to International Tourists in october afer two and a half years of restrictions due to Corona

The Japan Tourist board has the problem that many Tourists confuse the the URL japan.travel

As .travel is not very known tourist that have seen an ad go to
Japan.com, a commercial website powered by Pear Media or Japan.jp, a non working site.

JNTO has offices in 20 countries

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Japan is an archipelago it has no borders with other
It obly has maritime borders with 4 countries
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