海外の反応-京都と東京のサービス態度に関する私のメモ

海外のナナシさん

This is a reflection of my and my husbands experience on our recent three week trip to Japan. We stayed in Tokyo 2 weeks and Kyoto for 1. In Tokyo, in pretty much every shop or restaurant we entered, the staff would greet us, serve us as needed, and say goodbyes. Of course, this varied from overly effusive (at popular tourist attractions like Kirby Cafe) to curt (smaller, quick turnover restaurants), but it was always present nonetheless. In Kyoto, this was not the case, in touristy and non touristy areas alike. For the most part, the vibe always seemed like the staff wanted you to leave as fast as possible. In one instance a girl sighed/rolled her eyes when my husband asked if they had shoes in another size. At another restaurant, the woman working there served us in complete silence – no greeting, no acknowledgement when taking the order, and nothing when setting the food down or during payment either. There are more instances like this but these are illustrative. My husband and I always made an effort to make a greeting, and any requests with an appropriate level of politeness (in Japanese) and to say goodbye in return. If we didn’t know how to ask for something we would use the translator app but this was never an opening (as in, we did not just walk up to anyone and shove a phone in their face). I am guessing that in general service employees in Kyoto are more burned out than their Tokyo-based counterparts, since the city is incredibly crowded and over touristed. However, we experienced this much cooler behavior even outside of touristy areas. I wonder if this is reflective of the experience of other, more recent travellers (hence our posting).

海外のナナシさん

If I lived in Kyoto, I think I’d hate every foreigner I encountered tbh. Place is rammed and fairly uncomfortable for locals I’d imagine (public transport, restaurants etc being a big issue)

海外のナナシさん

If I lived in Kyoto, I think I’d hate every foreigner I encountered tbh. Place is rammed and fairly uncomfortable for locals I’d imagine (public transport, restaurants etc being a big issue)

海外のナナシさん

I doubt it as it’s still a small amount. The large amount sites post to clickbait people only applies to expensive accommodations. The majority of accomodations, while also having a large percentage increase is still a small amount. Also, there are tourists that go to Kyoto during the day, but aren’t staying the night there. No accomodations tax collected from them at all.

海外のナナシさん

My friends (both Japanese & foreign) who live there still enjoy it a lot and are used to the tourists. There’s more now than before, but same with Tokyo and Osaka too. Kyoto has always been an extremely popular travel destination – especially domestically, with pretty much all school trips (except for those from Chiba lol) going there at some point, etc. But most people outside of the service industry in a few specific locations aren’t having to deal with heaps of tourists on a regular basis. I have a friend who lives up north on the Eizan Kurama Line, and gets around via bike (like many if not most people do) and doesn’t even encounter tourists much. So it completely depends. I also don’t think there’s any real justification for hating people due to their certain race or appearance just because of a few bad apples. Lord knows there’s rude, antisocial Japanese people too, and people from every race and every country around the world.

海外のナナシさん

Bruh I just arrived in Kyoto and I already hate it here (I’m a tourist myself). I did think over tourism is a problem but I didn’t know it was this bad!

海外のナナシさん

We got back from our 4 week trip a few days ago, stayed Kyoto for 5 days in the process. Don’t get me wrong, I love Kyoto and it was beautiful but little did we know, we booked our stay right next to one of the biggest tourist attraction in 100mile radius lol. The place being Fushimi Inari. Shoulda done a lil more research on that. As a tourist, my greatest enemies were other tourists. I did not see any blatant assholery from anyone personally, but man, a lot of tourists can’t fucking walk or operate in public hahah. Stopping all of a sudden, standing on the way, walking the “wrong way”, gathering in the middle of the street etc. This annoyed me, because I’m obviously perfect myself and operate flawlessly.

海外のナナシさん

Find the quieter temples and areas. The difference is immense! The only popular temple we did was Kinkaku-ji because it was on our way. It was not pleasant.

海外のナナシさん

Yeah I live in Tottori, but I went to Kyoto recently and it was overflowing. I’d say skip Kyoto and go somewhere interesting. Kanazawa is a similar experience but far less crowded and very walkable. Of course coming to Tottori’d be great too, but it’s a little off the beaten track.

海外のナナシさん

+1. We saw a beautiful garden area in front of a private building in the Gion district and saw a sign posted on the door that said “Private. Entry prohibited.” Within seconds, a group of Europeans ran into the garden area to take pictures. We were infuriated and completely understood why locals would hate tourists. There’s a complete lack of respect from some of them.

海外のナナシさん

My country’s main income is tourism; so I see tourists everywhere… I don’t hate the foreigners… what’s this attitude.

海外のナナシさん

I’m Spanish. So I know what living off of tourism is like. It’s absolutely nothing compared to Kyoto. The attitude is entirely warranted.

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