Japan faces overtourism crisis as record numbers visit • FRANCE 24 English

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1. I don’t think it’s over tourism in Japan, it’s over tourism in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto mostly. If you go off the regular 3 you’d get a much richer experience of Japanese culture and its people

2. OH PLZ..did we forget those Japanese Tourists who would do anything to get a picture in other countries
   STOP POINTING FINGERS JAPAN

3. Please dont ruin the countryside…

4. Went to Japan for the first time, in October last year and I have a video of the sea of people from when I was at the Sensoji Temple. It's too crowded, it's crazy! Can't move around much because we're literally walking shoulder to shoulder with heaps of other people. Still, I enjoyed it quite a lot!

5. The issue is that it’s easier for Chinese tourists to get Japanese visas now when it was more difficult before. The influx of tourists is normal this time of the year due to the Chinese new year.

6. No wonder my visa application is still in limbo

7. Highly recommend South Korea instead beautiful place

8. I spent like 35 days in japan and Yea so many gaijins lol still Japan one of the Best countries in the world

9. i have never experience it here in nagoya

10. Someone on the internet: Blame the foreign Gen Z and social media for their bad behavior in Japan.

11. Damn tourists are gonna ruin it for the rest of us tourists

12. Pls come to visit Korea we don’t have so many foreign tourist like Japan.. so why not visit Korea instead of Japan

13. With all that tourist money flooding the economy. Japan is going to be great once more!

14. Send the tourist to Mars!

15. There are a lot of problems with some tourists. This news is not wrong. As a Japanese person, I want people to follow manners and rules, but when I warn them, it's hard to understand that I can't understand Japanese with foreigners, and even if I speak English, I have to be kind and act in a way that doesn't make them uncomfortable. I would like to see immigration control become a little more strict. I wish the prices for tourists and Japanese people would be different when paying an entry tax of several thousand yen or buying things.

16. Korea can alternative option.
    Just beside and nearly almost same culture,convenient substructure, kindness,clean environment
    And kindness of people🎉
    Welcome to South Korea

17. マジで来なくていい

18. No problem if there is many people the problem is how they behave. Bring some knowledge before going on any country 🤦‍♂️

19. is overtourism is a crisis is overmigration a crisis

20. Most bad behavior tourists are from western. They should be more considerate about local and blend in. Not just do what they like.

21. Asakusa has been like this for over 10 years – bad example! Love it when Japanese people inform you of cultural expectations without any details or reasons – "It's okay to eat in front of the shop but not while walking". Errrmmm … why?

22. The real problem is mainland Chinese tourists. Sure, Western tourists may not know the etiquette, but Chinese tourists are downright bad.

23. If they want people to visit other parts of Japan they shouldn't have doubled the price of the rail pass. Now people will mainly stick to the big 3.

24. I’d hate being jammed into streets like that as a vacation ! Can’t imagine how the locals deal with it.

25. Japan doesn’t have an overtourism problem. It’s small parts of big cities on the golden route that has this problem. There are still plenty of neighborhoods in Tokyo and prefectures outside the golden route that have very little tourists. The gov can help by focusing on spreading people out. There’s so many Shinkansen routes, and language barrier can be overcome by technology. If anyone is seriously considering to avoid crowds this cherry blossom season, Tohoku is so beautiful yet so few people go.

26. It’s mostly ‘influencers’ who cause most problems. They think it’s all about them “look at me”

27. How can anyone travel without researching the basic etiquette of Japan? Not just in Japan, but for every other country. That's just basic respect

28. its their greediness accepting way too many tourist visas

29. يارب مشاكل من دى فى مصر طول السنة 😂

30. 東京在住だけど、英語で話しかけられるのにうんざり。基本的に無視します。

31. It really is digusting to be honest. It's too many people. Japanese people will just start resenting foreigners. We could start to celebrate our own cultures like they do, so every country would attract an equal amount of tourists.

32. Japan isn't facing over tourism. It's facing a government which wanted those so many tourists, tried to attract easy (thus bad) tourists and didn't invest to absorb and manage those tourists and now still lacking the infrastructures and services, wants 60 million tourists for tomorrow. It's totally self inflicted. Paris alone welcomes more tourists than all of Japan every year, Austria which is just a bit bigger than Paris welcomes same number of tourists as Japan and it's been the case for decades unlike Japan. How do they do?

33. Note that the French girl is from the country welcoming the highest number of tourists in the world with 100 million tourists and Paris alone has more tourists than all of Japan. And yet she said that she isn't used to seeing something like this. Why? Because France unlike Japan invested in the infrastructures and put in place the services to be able to absorb and manage tourists! Japan needs to get it's act together and stop blaming tourists. Many countries have way more tourists than that and do their job instead spending their time complaining and using scapegoats.

34. I think it’s the only East Asian country worth visiting

35. Ban China Tourist will solve all problems.
    Please…im going to japan end of year 2025.

36. yes it’s good for the economy but,these tourists are so ill mannered😢their kids just get their shoes on the train seats,and they’re so loud, they left rubbish anywhere they like,horrible, so horrible, this is due to the weak yen, all to be blamed on the weak yen

37. Hey guys, where in Japan can I go to escape tourists? Sincerly, a tourist 🤣

38. Problem is that japanese people don’t like confrontation, meaning they won’t correct you if your breaking the rules.

39. Sounds like a great problem to have.

40. Hang on. I lived in Tokyo for most of the 90s and over crowding at the tourist spots was always the case. But they were nearly all Japanese in those days. The bad behaviour is obviously the problem, and I sympathise completely with the Japanese over this. They will find it difficult to deal with it because of their aversion for confrontation, which when I lived there enabled some of my less house-trained gaijin colleagues to get away with extremely bad behaviour. It will probably end up with the Japanese changing their national character to a degree to deal with the entitled behaviour of the tourists, which will be a shame.

41. the secret is to have someone that lives in Japan and can take you to places that most foreigners don't know about. I went to japan a few times because my now wife was living there at the time. I never went to tokyo and despite that I still had a great time.

42. Did earthquake protocols include the increase number of humans?

43. Just got to Japan. WHERE THE GEISHA GIRLS (Big smile with drink in hand). Hey you, Ching Ching. You bring me drink, drink, okay (slaps back of the head).

44. Always research the country you are visiting! This includes both laws and customs, as well as cultural quirks that do not exist in your home country. Always behave as you would when visiting someone's house for the first time; you are a GUEST! Do not expect special treatment and be respectful of the local people

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