TOKYO: A cherry blossom festival boasting a highly Instagrammable view of Japan's Mount Fuji has been cancelled after residents complained of overtourism fuelled by the weak yen.The city of Fujiyoshida, in central Japan's Yamanashi region, said on Tuesday (Feb 3) that the weeks-long event attracting around 20
If you don’t do problematic things you won’t be seen as the problem. The vast majority of tourists aren’t doing anything bad either.
The issue is that there are so, so many tourists coming to Japan that even if only 0.1% of them are bad, that’s still tens of thousands of people, which ends up leaving a dent in absolute numbers regardless.
It’s a hard problem to manage because there will always be a small amount of people misbehaving no matter where in the world you go.