海外の反応-日本の都市、観光客のマナー違反により桜祭りを中止

Japanese city cancels cherry blossom festival over badly behaved tourists
by u/Scbadiver in japan

海外のナナシさん

People will still go there, except now there won’t be a festival event to funnel them all into.

海外のナナシさん

That’s what I’ve been saying when these news broke. Maybe a few domestic tourists won’t go, but most foreign tourists didn’t even know there was a festival in the first place. Heck, I had an interest in going to take the iconic picture for around 12 years and have been living just a 2.5h direct train ride away for a while – but I’ve never heard about this festival before (and have never managed to take that picture).

Also, they literally went out of their way to take a picture of a Lawson in front of Fuji. A fucking Lawson. No festival needed to bring them there.

They should really charge a fee for getting to the photo spot, and pay some security/police to put proper crowd management in place, that’s how you overcome such problems, not by trying to keep it quiet while social media is buzzing with the pictures.

There are also more ways to make money, Japan doesn’t do enough to take their visitors’ money, even though the latter would gladly spend more. I think Fujiyoshida doesn’t even levy an accommodation tax, unless that changes in recent years.

海外のナナシさん

You’re not wrong.

海外のナナシさん

I feel like the only way to solve this in a good way is:

keep the festival

charge entrance fees and sell a limited number of tickets to tourists

allow the locals in for free

use profits to pay for staff to handle the surrounding area, traffic etc. so people dont poop in gardens or park their cars in private driveways etc. etc.

use any remaining profit to benefit the local community

海外のナナシさん

Alternatively, all the resources will go to containing them instead of also managing an event on the side.

This reads to me that with the increased security costs, the festival simply won’t make enough money to justify holding it at all. Probably a confluence of factors such as inflation hitting their bottom line. If they actually did just blame tourists though, then that strikes me as unnecessarily xenophobic.

海外のナナシさん

Japanese authorities in a town near Mount Fuji have cancelled this year’s cherry blossom festival, saying a surge in tourist numbers is unmanageable for locals.

The influx of tourists to the town of Fujiyoshida has led to chronic traffic congestion and litter, while some residents say they’ve experienced tourists trespassing or defecating in private gardens.

So, it’s mostly because small town infrastructure can’t handle the influx of people. That’s entirely fair.

I’d bet money the “some residents” reporting the bad stuff are like one or two cases. I don’t think anyone rightly believes there are literal droves of tourists lining up to shit in people’s gardens.

海外のナナシさん

They showed on the news this morning that some tourists were parking their rental cars in residential driveways there. Completely bizarre behavior.

海外のナナシさん

for a few years, I drove from Gunma to that area to visit a temple in that area every month, and Fujiyoshida is constantly inundated with tourists, both domestic and international. …
so it doesn’t surprise me that defecation is an issue with ever-increasing eldery tourists.

海外のナナシさん

Yeah that’s not great. But dumb people always gonna push the limits of dumb. …
The bigger issue is preparation and infrastructure.

海外のナナシさん

Um yea, one or two cases is enough for Japan to cancel it. At the end of the day, Japan is a country where the Japanese people live, not a theme park for tourists.

海外のナナシさん

I think you are right for now, but I think soon it will be a theme park for tourists, where Japanese people live.

海外のナナシさん

“I’m sorry, is shitting in local’s private property not included in the travel package?” -Foreign Tourists apparently

I’m gonna have to agree with you that it’s likely a one-off case being presented as a recurring issue. That sounds too insane to be real.

海外のナナシさん

I grew up in Kanagawa and occasionally visit Kamakura. A certain railroad crossing there is a famous “pilgrimage site” for Slam Dunk fans. However, I’ve heard that since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a persistent issue with public defecation near that crossing. It seems this is a common problem in famous tourist destinations; it’s not just a one-off occurrence, but rather a clear and consistent trend.

海外のナナシさん

You’ll be surprised. Not in Japan but Singapore, there is increase in public defecation and such for the past few years and every time I see the news reports it’s always Chinese Nationals.

海外のナナシさん

Indian and Chinese cultures are… interesting

海外のナナシさん

If its traffic jams doesn’t that mean cars so most likely people already residing in japan since public transport is more likely to be used by tourists?

海外のナナシさん

public transport is more likely to be used by tourists?

Car rental is now very popular among foreign tourists, as well as personal driver packages.

海外のナナシさん

One or two cases? Have you been to a touristy area?

海外のナナシさん

Where there are numerous cases of people shitting in gardens? No. No, in my 20 years here I have not been to such touristy areas.

And even “trespassing” could just be lost people, or drunk people, or lost and drunk people.

Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

海外のナナシさん

It’s more likely a neighbor’s dog or a wild Tanuki that shit in the yard, and the xenophobes are quick to attribute it to their favorite scapegoat.

海外のナナシさん

Well not before, but now I’m ready to get in line

海外のナナシさん

Who is shitting in people’s gardens? We need to answer these questions honestly.

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