It’s a bummer the extent to which influencers and careless people have ruined travel.
Authorities cited sanitation issues among the most serious problems, including cases of visitors entering private homes to use toilets, relieving themselves in residential yards, and causing confrontations when challenged, according to Kyodo News.
Safety worries have also emerged, particularly from families living nearby. According to the city, parents have reported children being pushed aside on school routes as large crowds gather along narrow pavements to reach popular photo spots.
The fuck is wrong with people?
Just your average tourist issues. We have the same issues in places like Hallstatt (Austria).
Japanese infrastructure is famously anti-tourist. I dont know if thats intentional or a byproduct of their culture’s development. There are extremely limited public trashcans or toilets. You are expected to carry your trash with you until you get home or the hotel.
Its a very respect based culture but the rules dont work as well when you are a visitor who isn’t following a kind of standard work/school day schedule your average Japanese person is.
I do think it’s funny that they identified the problems, and yet the solution is cancel the whole thing. Most countries would have installed temporary trash cans and toilets for the duration of the event.
Although the festival will not take place as an official event – and will not be promoted under its usual name on tourism platforms – officials expect visitor numbers to remain high when cherry blossoms bloom in April.
Preparations are underway to handle the influx, with officials planning to step up security and establish temporary car parks and portable toilet facilities to reduce pressure on neighbourhoods.
Preparations are underway to handle the influx, with officials planning to step up security and establish temporary car parks and portable toilet facilities to reduce pressure on neighbourhoods.
You can’t fix visitor clogging the narrow path and blocking local for living their life.
Also i wouldn’t call “expecting people to not litter” an anti-tourist mindset, kinda like calling “expecting people not to shoot their gun randomly” anti-gun.
Limited amount of public toilets? I had the opposite experience…
Perhaps your experience is different than the people wandering into homes looking for toilets.
Have you met people?
I try not to
8 billion lead-poisoned primates
Indeed.
This is also happening when Japan is being run by a hard-right leader whose party has been stirring up already excessive xenophobia.
The tourists need to be stopped though, they’re coming over and kicking the sacred deer
No evidence provided for the claim in the article unfortunately
Let’s go to a festival celebrating the incredible beauty of nature! While we’re there, let’s fucking trash the place!
Every day I experience a novel disappointment with my species.
