Traveling 5,700 miles from Scotland to Japan for the third time in six years, Martyn Merrilees is struck by how far his budget for the one-month visit is stretching.
“This time’s cheaper,” Merrilees, 20, said in the bustling Tokyo Station. “The yen is more beneficial. I am buying a lot more, mainly clothes and electronics, Apple products and stuff for my camera.”
Merrilees joins a record 9.14 million visitors to Japan in the first six months of 2015 as a more than 30 percent weakening in the yen against the dollar since the end of 2012 makes the nation more affordable.