Eight of the ten largest tourist agencies in Japan manage domestic tourism and depend solely on this market. Japan has managed the tourism industry with amazing skill. This is especially true for the hot springs areas popular with the silver-haired generation, where nature is combined with human artifice, places that can truly be described as "products of culture," like the famous Hakone and Izu hot springs areas.
日本的十大旅行社中有八家是經營國民旅遊，單靠國民旅遊市場，日本就將觀光產業經營得精緻動人，尤其以銀髮族為訴求的溫泉區之旅更是結合自然與人文，堪以「文明的成就」來形容。