Old folk's wishes The ROC Tourism Bureau, under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, sees these lunches as a great boon, bringing into Taiwan still more Japanese tourists. The Japanese already make up the largest single group of tourists coming to Taiwan at just over 37 % of the total, so in February this year Taiwan Rail lunches were included as part of a project to increase tourist figures.
歐吉桑的願望交通部觀光局有鑑於台鐵便當當紅，再加上日本觀光客是來台旅客主力，佔總人數三成七，因此今年二月起，特別將台鐵便當納入「觀光客倍增計畫」的配合項目內，只要日本旅行團來台並搭乘火車旅遊，即附贈台鐵不鏽鋼盒包裝的懷舊便當。