Chinese look at game for travel tips

Travel Frog gamers in China are keen to visit Japan after seeing photos the virtual animal brought back from that country.

China's biggest online travel agency, Ctrip, reported a 150 percent growth in the number of searches on its website for Japan since the mobile game craze hit the Chinese mainland in January.

To date, individual travel bookings through Ctrip to Nagoya in February have more than doubled month-on-month, and bookings for Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe surged by 80 percent, while those for Kagoshima and Fukuoka grew by 50 percent.