Japan Tourism Agency

This article is about an extra-ministerial bureau of MLIT of Japan. For an independent administrative agency using JNTO as its acronym, see Japan National Tourism Organization.
Japan Tourism Agency
観光庁
Kankō-chō

Joint Government Building No.3
Agency overview
FormedOctober 1, 2008 (2008-10-01)[1]
Jurisdiction Japan
HeadquartersYubinbango 100-8918, Chiyoda-ku, Kasumigaseki 2-chome No. 1 No. 3, Tokyo
Employees200[2]
Annual budget¥26,438 million JPY[3]
Agency executives
  • Secretary, Hiroshi Tabata
  • Deputy Secretary, Koichi Wada
Parent agencyMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Websitewww.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/en/

The Japan Tourism Agency (観光庁, Kankō-chō), JTA, is an organization which was set up on October 1, 2008 as an agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.[4]

  1. ^ "Opening Doors" (PDF), Highlighting JAPAN, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 8, 2009, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-20.
  2. ^ 国土交通省定員規則 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
  3. ^ 財務省 Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Finance. (in Japanese)
  4. ^ 国土交通省設置法 Archived 2012-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. (in Japanese)