Our Japan Travel Guide

What is the Japanese yen? It's the official currency of Japan, issued by Bank Japan. Its abbreviation is JPY and its symbol is ¥ (international) or 円 (in Japan). The Japanese yen is the third most-traded currency in the world.

Japanese belongs to the Japonic language family. It is spoken as a first language by 122 million and as a second language by over 1 million people in Japan.

Climate and Average Weather Year Round in Tokyo Japan. In Tokyo, the summers are short, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are very cold and mostly clear. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 2°C to 25°C and is rarely below 0°C or above 33°C.

For Japan there are two associated plug types, A and B. Plug type A is the plug which has two flat parallel pins and plug type B is the plug which has two flat parallel pins and a grounding pin. Japan operates on a 100V supply voltage and 50/60Hz.

The current population of Japan is 125,767,073 as of Wednesday, May 4, 2022, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.

Did you know an estimated 3.6 million people in Japan celebrate with Christmas dinner at KFC. The tradition started in 1970, when the manager of the first KFC in Japan started marketing and selling a “party barrel” as a substitute for Christmas turkey.