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Destination Source Control · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

What AI cites about Japan

Japan's own official sites supply 17.2% of the sources AI cites for it; official sites of any kind, including other tourism boards and government sites, supply 23.8%. That is rank 12 of 63 ranked destinations. Based on 541 citations in 329 answers with web search on.

This destination in the other indexes: AI Shortlist · Itinerary Share

Who gets cited

Share of citations from each kind of source, averaged so each platform counts equally.

Unit: share of citations
Tourism boardsGovernmentEditorialNewsForumsBlogsBooking sitesSocial mediaSearch, maps and reviewsReferenceWeather and flight toolsTravel companiesUnclassified
Japan17.9%5.9%10.6%9.0%0.6%9.2%6.1%2.2%2.8%2.2%0.7%16.3%16.4%

By platform

PlatformSources recorded asControlCitations
Claudelinks the model wrote1.5%265
ChatGPTlinks the model wrote65.2%97
Geminisources from the search tool2.2%45
Groksources from the search tool0.0%134

Most cited sites

SiteKind of sourceCitationsOfficial
japan.travelTourism boards51Japan's own
destinology.co.ukTravel companies39
unforgettabletravel.comTravel companies16
odynovotours.comBooking sites14
luxuryescapes.comBooking sites12
tripprof.comSearch, maps and reviews12
japanhighlights.comTravel companies11
lonelyplanet.comEditorial11
faq.japan-travel.jnto.go.jpGovernment10
kyoto.travelTourism boards9Japan's own
qz.comNews9
en.wikipedia.orgReference8

Japan

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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