The Diamond Princess became the world’s first luxury ship to face a major Covid outbreak.
Amadea, operated by Germany-based Phoenix Reisen, is now docked in Tokyo Bay after earlier arriving at a port in Shizuoka prefecture in western Japan, according to shipping data tracked by Bloomberg.
A months-long saga eventually ensued after the ship was quarantined off the nation’s shores, with about a fifth of the 3,711 passengers onboard the luxury ship infected and 12 deaths. That crisis also heralded a wider shutdown of the industry during the pandemic. Since then, the country has joined other nations around the world in removing pandemic curbs, loosening travel restrictions last October.The nation has geared up to welcome back cruise ships, which brought more than two million people to Japan in 2019.
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