Koji Matsui wants to charge tourists higher fares to ease congestion. But experts say Kyoto needs ‘all-year’ marketing to manage the volume of tourists instead.
Relief and delight swept Japan's travel sector after the country reopened to tourists without restrictions on Tuesday (Oct 11), amid some trepidation that the weak yen would contribute to too many tourists. Travellers no longer need to obtain a visa or submit a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to enter the country, while the 50,000-a-day limit on arrivals has.
Kyoto, the ancient Japanese capital that tourists flocked to in their millions pre-pandemic, is in danger of going broke as it struggles to offset billions of dollars in debt racked up through big-budget infrastructure projects with persistently low tax receipts and millions in lost tourism revenue. Just a few short years ago, the city synonymous with Japan's history, culture and.