The “hidden depreciation of the yen” is making overseas travel more and more difficult during the year-end and New Year’s holidays….

Recommended Travel Destinations in the “Era of Weak Yen”…Looking for Holey Places from “3 Viewpoints”.

So are there any recommended places to go?　Let’s look for the best places from three perspectives.

The first perspective is the “Big Mac Index. The Big Mac Index is an index of how much a McDonald’s Big Mac costs in a country.

A Big Mac in Japan costs 450 yen, and if this figure is used as a standard, Big Macs in most countries are actually more expensive than in Japan. However, you can find two places where you can find a hole in the market. These are ” Taiwan” and“Indonesia. A Big Mac in Taiwan costs about 350 yen, while a Big Mac in Indonesia, where tourist destinations such as Bali Island are located, costs about 320 yen. What this means is that although the yen is weak as a currency, local prices are still not that high from a Japanese perspective.

Both of these destinations are easily accessible from Japan, and from this perspective, they are probably the best places to visit at the end of this year.

The second recommendation, from a rather geeky point of view, is to target countries whose economies are more stagnant than Japan’s. We are currently suffering from a weak yen, and the economy is still in the doldrums. We are currently suffering from the weak yen, but there are still many countries in the world where the currency has depreciated even more and the people’s lives are suffering more than in Japan. Let’s look for popular tourist destinations among them.

There are a total of three countries that I would recommend in this regard. Turkey, Egypt, and Brazil. All of these countries are in trouble because their local currencies have collapsed, but because of this, the yen is also a strong currency when Japanese tourists visit these countries.

All of these countries are perfect tourist attractions. The downside is that they are far from Japan, and the economic turmoil has made the local security situation a little worse. We recommend this destination only for those who are daring.

Unexpected “hole in the wall”…

And now for my third recommendation. This is actually a tourist destination that is currently flooded with applications from travel agencies. It is Japan.

That’s right. With the historic depreciation of the yen, Japan is now a hot destination for tourists from all over the world. And, according to a travel agent, Japan is also a popular destination for Japanese people during the year-end and New Year’s holidays.

In particular, when asked, “What destinations do you go to instead of traveling abroad?” the travel agent’s answer was, “Okinawa is popular for people in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and Tokyo is popular for people in other parts of Japan.