You can see that we had an initial burst, which turned out not to be sustainable. This was presumably 'pent up' demand waiting for us to open, but for the next few months the winter 'tourist slump' shows clearly.

You can then see the spring 'Sakura Bubble' when the streets were flooded with visitors from overseas. This lasted a few weeks, and things then settled down again.

We have yet to see a full year pattern, but I guess that through July and August we are going to see pretty steady growth. Autumn is also a busy season in this district, and we will perhaps then become quiet again through the winter. Our 'plan' (such as we have one) will be to study the yearly pattern, and then try to encourage local demand during the times when foreign visitor numbers are low.

The bottom left graph is of course the weekly pattern. We're (usually) closed on Tuesdays as you can see, but the interesting thing is that the Tuesday business is simply shifted to Wednesdays! So we're not really losing anything by having a closing day, I think. Visitors to Tokyo are simply scheduling their visits around our pattern. (Maybe we should close six days a week, and concentrate all our efforts on one spectacularly busy day each week!