The IR, which also includes a luxury hotel and an international conference hall, will open on Yumeshima island in Osaka Bay, the venue of the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo. The opening has been postponed ...

13 -- expected to attract 28.2 million visitors, hotel operators from Japan and abroad are focusing their attention on the Kansai region that surrounds Osaka.

According to the Japan Tourism Agency’s Overnight Travel Statistics Survey, the hotel occupancy rate for Osaka Prefecture was up nine points year on year to 76.3 percent in July, logging the ...