The neighborhood suddenly became a popular spot about two years ago, apparently after a photo taken in a particular angle showing Mount Fuji in the background of a local convenience store, became a social media sensation.
The neighborhood suddenly became a popular spot about two years ago, apparently after a photo taken in a particular angle showing Mount Fuji in the background of a local convenience store, became a social media sensation.
where i am from, when a place becomes a turist hotspot, we just think on ways to milk their 💵
So many places, even in japan, are dying to get some tourist 💵 attention and these guys just dont give a fuck. So weird, just start a takoyaki stand near the photo spot and rack in the cash. Eventually the fad will die anyway
It‘s a sure way to throw your actual profession down the gutter for what might be a short hype. The mass tourism we see globally today completely dwarfs everything anyone ever anticipated and it sure as hell isn‘t sustainable just by it‘s nature to cannibalize itself.
It depends on the place. If there are places that are filled with independently wealthy people, they will try to make their home town as unfriendly as possible to tourists to reduce traffic.
Japan has a strong and well educated middle class that isn‘t reliant enough on tourism to abandon their professions. Of course it’s a big part of their national economy today, but not every town is that needy or greedy for cash. Some just want to live their lives instead of opening and running a souvenir shop for the rest of their days or until tourists stop coming.
The article talks about how tourism is important to the town, literally being built on it, but it’s just this spot is especially bad because tourists are behaving badly by illegally crossing the street and trespassing, among other things.
What you said is 100% just made up bullshit. Why?