Pedestrians walk down a street in the amusement district of Shinjuku in Tokyo, on February 12, 2026. Photo: VCG

　　In April, all flights on 30 China-Japan routes were cancelled, data from Chinese industry information provider Flight Master showed on Friday.

　　In April, the number of flights from Chinese mainland to Japan totaled 2,554, a decrease of 182 flights compared with March. This represents a 54.4 percent decline from 2025 year-on-year, with the rate of decline widening by 4.3 percentage points from March, the platform told the Global Times.

　　It added that among the top 20 international and regional routes by flight volume during the May Day holiday, round-trip flights between China and South Korea ranked first, with a year-on-year increase of 9.4 percent. In contrast, round-trip flights between China and Japan declined 56.7 percent year-on-year.

　　The total volume of China-Japan flights continued to operate at a low level. According to the Flight Master, a total of 2,691 flights from the Chinese mainland to Japan were canceled in March, with the cancellation rate reaching 49.6 percent, up 1.1 percentage points from February.

　　The number of visitors to Japan from the Chinese mainland plunged 55.9 percent year-on-year in March to 291,600, marking a continued downward trend that is weighing on multiple sectors of the Japanese economy, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

　　Also, in the first quarter of this year, arrivals from the Chinese mainland to Japan dropped 54.6 percent year-on-year, according to Xinhua.