Airports, Train Stations Crowded as 10-Day Holiday Starts in Japan

April 28, 2019

Tokyo- International airports and major railway stations in Japan were crowded with people on Saturday, the first day of the country's unprecedented 10-day holiday.

"I want to relax at the hotel," Ryo Sasaki, a 38-year-old corporate worker in Tokyo, said at the departure lobby of Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of the Japanese capital.

He said he plans to stay in Bali, Indonesia, for seven nights and nine days with his wife and 7-year-old and 4-year-old daughters.

Chihana Furusawa, a 23-year-old corporate employee from Chiba, said while wearing a straw hat and hot pants, "I want to enjoy beauty salon, spa treatments, meals and the pool."

She said she plans to take a trip to Bangkok for four nights and five days with three friends.

"I don't want to think for a while" about work, Takayuki Nagai, 40, a corporate employee in Tokyo, said at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda, while smiling wryly. He said he plans to visit Singapore with three family members.

At a Tokaido Shinkansen platform at Tokyo Station, a 26-year-old female corporate worker, who is planning to go to the western city of Kobe with her parents and younger sister, said that the 10-day holiday "isn't long." "I want a holiday that lasts for a lifetime," she said jokingly. Jiji Press