What do you think about the overtourism claims in Japan? Let me know what you think of my 6 spots to avoid the crowds and of any other places off the beaten track!
Japan should charge a fairly pricey tourist fee to those coming to japan for tourism, as well as a tax for purchases made in all stores. :) That should both cut down on the amount of tourists, and help out the local businesses. hehe
Japan needs more immigrants than tourists. Still almost every small city (Especially Aomori) needs tourists to run their economy. I don't think Japan suffers from overtourism. It does have a problem with bad tourists. Hence I think some of the measures taken may be too harsh.
@@akshaykv123Absolutely not. Look what immigration has done to cities in Europe like London and Paris. Just 36% of London’s population is white now. That’s insane and unacceptable.
I was fortunate enough to be able to live and travel in Japan for a year on a working holiday visa. I've seen a lot of places from Hokkaido all the way down to Kagoshima and I think the biggest issue with "hidden gems" is transportation. As someone without a driver's license, it's incredibly difficult to go to certain places in, say, Aomori prefecture. Sure, I could go to Aomori city or Hachinohe but both of these cities aren't THAT great. The prefecture itself, however, has some great spots to see but if you don't have a car, you are never going to go to those places because trains/buses either don't go there or it's a multi-hour journey. Unless you know someone who can drive a car, of course. Large portions of Shikoku are absolutely impossible to travel to without access to a car. On top of this, the further you go away from the well-known places, the harder it is to get by without at least some Japanese language ability and especially in some more remote areas, you never know how locals may react to a foreigner who speaks 0 Japanese (although I personally NEVER had any negative experiences). If Japan actually wants to solve the "problem" (I don't actually think that the government treats this as a problem because it brings them money) of overtourism in the main cities, they'd have to invest in better infrastructure everywhere else. Not just for tourism but for the people living in those areas, too. I've been to plenty of places where I had to get on one of only two buses that came on that day to that specific town, otherwise you gotta wait until the next day.
People keep asking me why I didn't go to Tokyo my first visit and am still not going on my second and I'm like... there's so many other cool places to see other than Tokyo.
my first visit to Japan, in 2001, was only Tokyo and Kanazawa. That really was enough to see. Tokyo is so versatile. You can visit non-tourist places without a problem. But not going there shocked me as well 🤣
Hirome Ichiba is such an underrated recommendation! I was in Kochi during Spring this year, and IMO Sunday is the perfect day to visit! Walking through the Kochi Sunday Market leading up to Hirome Ichiba is an experience which I would highly recommend.
I'm glad you listed 2 in Kyushu! I went to Japan for the first time in 2019 and am finally going back this October, but I admit I feel bad that it seems to be the year when everyone and their mother are going to Japan. In 2019, Kyoto had a downright terrifying amount of tourists roaming around. This next visit, we're venturing around Kyushu. The first trip, when we were in Kochi and ended up at Hirome Ichiba because a local (who flagged us down after we parked by the castle to visit their 天理教会 and that was a whole other thing 😅) told us that we absolutely *had* to go to Hirome Ichiba for lunch. It is such a cool place! I'd love to explore Kochi more.
My sister, her husband and I plan on visiting Japan next year. I guess we'll be part of that 32 million. I've suggested that we go around Tohoku (primarily Aomori, Sendai, and a couple other locations) and Hokkaido because of how nice these regions are and that hardly anyone visits. Nothing is set in stone yet.
Japan itself in Tokyo and Osaka is quite overcrowded by native citizens. We did not spot many foreign tourists outside of akihabara, already less in shinjuku and shibuya. The golden route is also quite too overrated compared to nature and other sides of japan. We enjoyed our trip this year but yes you definetively feel as a foreigner in japan ;) But nice that all instagram picutres are just empty and only the influencers are visible.
Japan has sold itself very well... the problem is the main attraction is how clean and normal it is in comparison to other places... then idiots arrive and you find out why other places aren't so clean lol
I feel so conflicted at this matter. I am a foreigner living and working in a Japanese corporation, and so I would like to think of myself as a Japanese resident and being different than a typical tourist. On one hand, I understand Japan need tourirsts to come and spend money here to essentially help with the very bad economic state. But on the other hand, seeing so many tourists from just my daily commute to work is also very "suffering" in a sense. I missed the covid time,I was able to just freely travel and visit every nook and cranny of Kyoto or being able to quickly access the inside of the Osaka castle without having to wait. Now, there are tourists everywhere, and some dont even have the neccessary manner to protect the street of Japan too.
Hi Ryotaro, amazing videos as usual. Think this is the first time I comment since I subbed to your channel back when it started. I found your choices perfect for me, I prefer seeing the smaller and more natural places of a country and that goes double for Japan. I have yet to visit, but my number one place I want to see is Aichi prefecture's nature and visit Nagoya. Your list is perfect, just I think, sadly most people have a mob mentality. Kind of like, they know they won't win the lottery, yet they will still pay money into it. That's kind of similar to most people coming to Japan and just going for the same typical places that everyone else repeats. Don't get me wrong, I am sure Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo are amazing, but for me they are not the only parts of Japan.
100% agree. I splurged on a Ryokan in Matsuyama and the staff spoke zero English and I have zero regrets because it was a great experience. And Kochi castle was so neat (and is right next to Hirome Ichiba).
Im heading to Kochi in the next few months so will definitely check the market out when I am there. I think JR dropped the ball when they put prices up for everything. If they had doubled or trebled the price between Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka and left elsewhere unchanged it would have encouraged more to see some of the countryside.
Ryotaro's recommendation for hidden gems are always great. Many years ago I noticed that in Abroad In Japan videos, and I always love the content the most with Ryotaro in them!
I don’t think that I would visit a tourist spot right away if I ever I go to Japan. I want to see where my grandma was born and outside the hospital where my mom was born ( as close to since she was born on a military base). These are cool places to visit Ryotaro. I will put these on my list too.
Having just spent a year in Japan, I actually went to three of these and missed Kyoto and Osaka entirely. The Ashizuri Cape in Tosashimizu is absolutely spectacular, as is the Muroto Cape on the other Southern tip of Shikoku on the Eastern side. Both very difficult to reach by public transport though, so plan carefully.
Woo shikoku prefecture featured! I was a little nervous staying a week in kagawa but by the end had so much more I wanted to do any every day was packed with beautiful sights! Going to note the rest of these places down
Planning on heading to Haguro-san! Bet they're not overcrowded in late October (or any time really). Although. would you recommend Yudono-san over Haguro, or which way around would you go? Think we only have time for one of them (daytripping from Sendai and don't wanna make it too long of a day), and remember you've been with Chris to both of them!
love them all, Toyama has a great glass museum and awesome seafood, heading to kyushu for sumo in Fukuoka and then beppu for onsen and catch a ferry to shikoku hopefully in 2026 ,,, fingers crossed :)
OMG!!! I'm actually planning on visiting the glass museum in toyama on my trip next month xDDD going to spend a lot of time in kanazawa too! the peninsula up north though is still suffering because of the earthquake effects.. I feel bad for them. I hope they recover, but I can't really visit there because I'm concerned with the issues they're still having looking forward to hokkaido too :> will be my first trip. and alone LOL
I am living in Tokyo and even here there are lots of places with no tourists at all... I try to avoid tourist areas like Asakusa as much as possible. Sadly its rather hard and very expensive to get to less touristy areas so it makes sense people sticking to the same places that they know are interesting
I so wanna visit all these places for my second Japan trip. But, I am taking some friends with me this time who will be first time visitors. So, for their sake, I'm stuck with the friggin' Golden route again! Why do you have to tempt me with this video, my good man?
I spent a month in my mini van driving around Kyushu and Shikoku back in spring, I can highly recommend Kochi for sure. One of the highlights of my trip, although I think Amakusa was my favorite with Kagoshima way up there too. Mie where I live is also absolutely stunning.
I’d love to see those drummers. I’ve seen some of their TH-cam videos and they are amazing! 🤩 I’m taking my first trip to Japan later this year, and am so excited to finally see your beautiful country!
I have two favorite places that are kind of less visited, but I fell in love for the quiet, relaxing, country-vibes. One is hard to get by, took me around 16h by train and bus to get to from Imabari... it is in Kochi, named Yusuhara, it is a quiet small friendly and loving city I cannot stress enough it is a place I still dream of returning to. If you can drive, you can avoid the train and bus ride and get a 2h direct drive there, and the main hotel has an electric car recharging station - the long train ride is simply because it is NOT connected to any train lines, and in Kochi, most train lines drive around the seaside, and very few do the needed north-south connection, meaning you have to go around most of the island, before taking a bus ride inland to the city. The second one is directly accessible by Shinkansen, Iwakuni. You can just take a 10min walk from the train station to the main historical/tourist area, near the wooden bridge. Best of luck and some jealousy for those who can visit, I STRONGLY advise both.
Too many tourists??? I'm trying not to laugh. In Catalonia we are 7 million inhabitants. Last year we received 25 million tourists (18 millions foreigners, the rest from other parts of isPain). In 2024 the number of tourists has increased beyond those crazy numbers to the point were even the tourist industry is demanding to put some controls to it. The truth of the matter is that there's not enough water (just choosing a natural resource that we need to live) for that many people. That is "too many tourists". Too many tourists in Japan or the people of Japan not used to seeing foreigners?
Pure numbers says it isn't too much compared to 10+ other countries, so Japan must be bad at dividing tourism to different spots and only feeding from couple known places. And that is also how I feel watching TH-cam contents made in Japan too; no matter who goes to Japan, they all go to same places in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka etc. talk about same things, shoot same places. Google says there are over 5000 museums in Japan but I did not see any museum content except from Rare Earth who I remember visited one and told us about roots of Godzilla and some other TH-camrs who talked about poop museuem. So what you are doing here is right thing to do, avoiding crowds and promoting hidden gems but Japan also have to provide with good infrastructure, easy transportation, hotels, living towns for day or night life for such places to pull people out of crowd cities.
On my next trip I want to head to one of the provincial cities like Akita just to be away from mainstream tourists. And spending a whole day to reach Mount. Fuji just to take a picture. I been to Japan 5 times and never could be bothered. I saw it a few times from the air and one time from the Shinkansen so I am golden.
Why go to a convenience store to take a picture of my Fuji when you can go to the base of it and take great pictures from the Mizugatsuka Parking Lot. That is what I did this past Monday.
The place I grew up is very beautiful, and has 0 tourists. It's where the roads end and the vast wilderness begins. There's hundreds of crystal clear lakes with sandy beaches. I'll never tell anyone where it is.
It's a marketing and messaging problem. The tourist industry (and government) doesn't do NEARLY enough to encourage/enable going to places other than the Big 3 Golden Route. The messaging could do more to communicate local etiquette, norms, and general good behavior to keep Japan nice. Explain WHY it's nice here and INSPIRE them to keep it that way. And don't do it in the dry and sanitized NHK documentary way. Normies won't watch NHK. An official-looking PSA will not work on foreigners. Most of all, if Japan is advertised like a theme park, expect people to show up looking for one. REAL PEOPLE live and work here. I try to remind people of that when they're blustering about Harajuku, Maid Cafe's, or Geisha. The Tourism marketing could do better to remind people of that subtly.
Same as tourism anywhere... People bringing their attitudes with them and expecting the place they visit to conform to their pig-headed attitudes. Respect where you are visiting, or don't come.
i think it is just the combination of two factors which you mentioned that just have a negative combination. the reduced value in the yen has just allowed a noticeable increase in "lower quality tourist" (idk how to correctly say it) that are just concentrated in the same places/tourist traps that has just resulted in fed up locals. from the people that you have collaborated with it has shown that if you just act like a decent human being and with respect, the locals wont ban you from returning
We are hoping to visit Japan next year and we despise tourist spots and would rather see the culture as it. Out of respect of the people. We do not like to take pictures because it’s so over done and it intrusive normal local people . Please respective locals if you visit anywhere, it’s their home not yours.
If japanese people move away from small places why should tourist go there if only place open is small karaoke bar and lawson? Anyway most fun time i have had was small town in Aomori but i knew people from there.
The reason why there are so many tourists in Kyoto is because people want to see beautiful traditional Japan. Not modern ugly urban Japan that is the same looking as everywhere else in the world.
Chris is friends with most of them and actually produces or supports a lot of them. Often does their camera work. He likes to make fun of himself and they like it too
What do you think about the overtourism claims in Japan?
Let me know what you think of my 6 spots to avoid the crowds and of any other places off the beaten track!
Japan should charge a fairly pricey tourist fee to those coming to japan for tourism, as well as a tax for purchases made in all stores. :)
That should both cut down on the amount of tourists, and help out the local businesses. hehe
Really appreciate you suggestions Ryotaro. Thank you.
Japan needs more immigrants than tourists. Still almost every small city (Especially Aomori) needs tourists to run their economy. I don't think Japan suffers from overtourism. It does have a problem with bad tourists. Hence I think some of the measures taken may be too harsh.
@@akshaykv123Absolutely not. Look what immigration has done to cities in Europe like London and Paris. Just 36% of London’s population is white now. That’s insane and unacceptable.
Love this channel. It should absolutely have more viewers.
A few more but not too many! Let's keep the hidden gems for this small community of cultured people with refined tastes.
I feel like Ryotaro always has the best tips when it comes to hidden spots ☺
I was fortunate enough to be able to live and travel in Japan for a year on a working holiday visa. I've seen a lot of places from Hokkaido all the way down to Kagoshima and I think the biggest issue with "hidden gems" is transportation. As someone without a driver's license, it's incredibly difficult to go to certain places in, say, Aomori prefecture. Sure, I could go to Aomori city or Hachinohe but both of these cities aren't THAT great. The prefecture itself, however, has some great spots to see but if you don't have a car, you are never going to go to those places because trains/buses either don't go there or it's a multi-hour journey. Unless you know someone who can drive a car, of course.
Large portions of Shikoku are absolutely impossible to travel to without access to a car. On top of this, the further you go away from the well-known places, the harder it is to get by without at least some Japanese language ability and especially in some more remote areas, you never know how locals may react to a foreigner who speaks 0 Japanese (although I personally NEVER had any negative experiences).
If Japan actually wants to solve the "problem" (I don't actually think that the government treats this as a problem because it brings them money) of overtourism in the main cities, they'd have to invest in better infrastructure everywhere else. Not just for tourism but for the people living in those areas, too. I've been to plenty of places where I had to get on one of only two buses that came on that day to that specific town, otherwise you gotta wait until the next day.
Driving is easy especially in the countryside
@@southcoastinventors6583 That may be, but did you miss the part where they mentioned not having a driver's license?
Ryotaro with brocoli hair must never be allowed to happen!
I've already started growing it out
@@RyotarosJapan That means you have to grow a mullet.
The problem isn't that there are too many, but that they're always concentrated in the same three places.
People keep asking me why I didn't go to Tokyo my first visit and am still not going on my second and I'm like... there's so many other cool places to see other than Tokyo.
my first visit to Japan, in 2001, was only Tokyo and Kanazawa. That really was enough to see. Tokyo is so versatile. You can visit non-tourist places without a problem. But not going there shocked me as well 🤣
Hirome Ichiba is such an underrated recommendation! I was in Kochi during Spring this year, and IMO Sunday is the perfect day to visit! Walking through the Kochi Sunday Market leading up to Hirome Ichiba is an experience which I would highly recommend.
I was in aomori today. Moya hills luge ride and rice paddy art fields. We were literally the only 2 people riding the luge down the mountain.
Thunder in the Hills baby!!!!
I'm glad you listed 2 in Kyushu! I went to Japan for the first time in 2019 and am finally going back this October, but I admit I feel bad that it seems to be the year when everyone and their mother are going to Japan. In 2019, Kyoto had a downright terrifying amount of tourists roaming around. This next visit, we're venturing around Kyushu.
The first trip, when we were in Kochi and ended up at Hirome Ichiba because a local (who flagged us down after we parked by the castle to visit their 天理教会 and that was a whole other thing 😅) told us that we absolutely *had* to go to Hirome Ichiba for lunch. It is such a cool place! I'd love to explore Kochi more.
I'm planning my first visit to Japan next year and I will spend a significant portion in Tohoku thanks to your and Chris' videos!
„I much prefer Abroad in Japan“ has got me LMAO every time it appeared on the screen 😂😂👍
My sister, her husband and I plan on visiting Japan next year. I guess we'll be part of that 32 million. I've suggested that we go around Tohoku (primarily Aomori, Sendai, and a couple other locations) and Hokkaido because of how nice these regions are and that hardly anyone visits. Nothing is set in stone yet.
Japan itself in Tokyo and Osaka is quite overcrowded by native citizens. We did not spot many foreign tourists outside of akihabara, already less in shinjuku and shibuya.
The golden route is also quite too overrated compared to nature and other sides of japan.
We enjoyed our trip this year but yes you definetively feel as a foreigner in japan ;)
But nice that all instagram picutres are just empty and only the influencers are visible.
Japan has sold itself very well... the problem is the main attraction is how clean and normal it is in comparison to other places... then idiots arrive and you find out why other places aren't so clean lol
going again to japan in january, so anxious 🥹🥹
I'm sad kagoshima isn't on here, but there's just SO MANY places that you can list that tourists don't go to often enough.
I feel so conflicted at this matter. I am a foreigner living and working in a Japanese corporation, and so I would like to think of myself as a Japanese resident and being different than a typical tourist. On one hand, I understand Japan need tourirsts to come and spend money here to essentially help with the very bad economic state. But on the other hand, seeing so many tourists from just my daily commute to work is also very "suffering" in a sense. I missed the covid time,I was able to just freely travel and visit every nook and cranny of Kyoto or being able to quickly access the inside of the Osaka castle without having to wait. Now, there are tourists everywhere, and some dont even have the neccessary manner to protect the street of Japan too.
Move to the countryside easy
So many foreigners wish they were the only foreigner in Japan 😂
What are some good places to visit in the Northern prefectures? Chris Broad always talks highly of them, so I'd be interested in visiting them.
Hi Ryotaro, amazing videos as usual. Think this is the first time I comment since I subbed to your channel back when it started.
I found your choices perfect for me, I prefer seeing the smaller and more natural places of a country and that goes double for Japan. I have yet to visit, but my number one place I want to see is Aichi prefecture's nature and visit Nagoya.
Your list is perfect, just I think, sadly most people have a mob mentality. Kind of like, they know they won't win the lottery, yet they will still pay money into it. That's kind of similar to most people coming to Japan and just going for the same typical places that everyone else repeats.
Don't get me wrong, I am sure Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo are amazing, but for me they are not the only parts of Japan.
I highly recommend Shikoku. Matsuyama and Kochi Castle are beautiful. Great Onsen places.
100% agree. I splurged on a Ryokan in Matsuyama and the staff spoke zero English and I have zero regrets because it was a great experience. And Kochi castle was so neat (and is right next to Hirome Ichiba).
Don't forget the nice beaches around there.
I think why English speaking tourists don’t venture out into the other areas even though they are cool and quieter is fear that no one speaks English.
Im heading to Kochi in the next few months so will definitely check the market out when I am there.
I think JR dropped the ball when they put prices up for everything. If they had doubled or trebled the price between Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka and left elsewhere unchanged it would have encouraged more to see some of the countryside.
I can help! By not affording a trip to Japan.
Hi Ryotaro! I'm moving to Shikoku in 2 weeks to work so will definitely visit Hirome Ichiba! Many thanks keep up the good work!
Ryotaro you do a good job with your videos, keep it up!!
(Name is spelled correctly now!!)
I brought my family to a lot of these more less known places because of your channel and that broad guy!
Ryotaro's recommendation for hidden gems are always great.
Many years ago I noticed that in Abroad In Japan videos, and I always love the content the most with Ryotaro in them!
I don’t think that I would visit a tourist spot right away if I ever I go to Japan. I want to see where my grandma was born and outside the hospital where my mom was born ( as close to since she was born on a military base). These are cool places to visit Ryotaro. I will put these on my list too.
I’d love to see the drumming!
Having just spent a year in Japan, I actually went to three of these and missed Kyoto and Osaka entirely. The Ashizuri Cape in Tosashimizu is absolutely spectacular, as is the Muroto Cape on the other Southern tip of Shikoku on the Eastern side. Both very difficult to reach by public transport though, so plan carefully.
At this point I'm convinced that Ryotaro is a Japanese State agent most likely he works for Ministry of Tourism 😛
Woo shikoku prefecture featured! I was a little nervous staying a week in kagawa but by the end had so much more I wanted to do any every day was packed with beautiful sights! Going to note the rest of these places down
And toyama black ramen is my favorite favorite!
Awesome tips here, keep them coming, I love exploring the "hidden" areas of Japan.
Planning on heading to Haguro-san! Bet they're not overcrowded in late October (or any time really).
Although. would you recommend Yudono-san over Haguro, or which way around would you go? Think we only have time for one of them (daytripping from Sendai and don't wanna make it too long of a day), and remember you've been with Chris to both of them!
Video that will put Chris to shame 😁. Deeper video about some new and unique experiences.
Aomori is top of my list. It looks like northern New England almost. Got me feeling nostalgic for a place I’ve never been. Also I love cider
love them all, Toyama has a great glass museum and awesome seafood, heading to kyushu for sumo in Fukuoka and then beppu for onsen and catch a ferry to shikoku hopefully in 2026 ,,, fingers crossed :)
OMG!!! I'm actually planning on visiting the glass museum in toyama on my trip next month xDDD
going to spend a lot of time in kanazawa too! the peninsula up north though is still suffering because of the earthquake effects.. I feel bad for them. I hope they recover, but I can't really visit there because I'm concerned with the issues they're still having
looking forward to hokkaido too :> will be my first trip. and alone LOL
This was a good video. Tao hill looks stunning.
Have you experienced the popular spots in Mid-November? I have 5 days in Tokyo and 6 days in Osaka but many day trips to the surrounding area planned
This is such a valuable video! Thank you v much Ryotaro!😊
I am living in Tokyo and even here there are lots of places with no tourists at all...
I try to avoid tourist areas like Asakusa as much as possible.
Sadly its rather hard and very expensive to get to less touristy areas so it makes sense people sticking to the same places that they know are interesting
Love the videos. Keep up the great work, Chris!
Awesome, my wife just said we are going to see the taiko drums for our anniversary next year!!!
Great video toro, but a map for reference would be helpful! Keep it up, love the vids 😊
Hi Ryotaro, your videos have really improved. I love that thumb nail picture. Great job! Even Chris Broad would approve.
Toyama is the best, seriously. I hope it never gets too many tourists though. It wouldn't be the same if it was super crowded.
For tourists going to Japan for the first time is like going to a Rolling Stones concert . . . they just want to say, “I was there!” 😎
I so wanna visit all these places for my second Japan trip. But, I am taking some friends with me this time who will be first time visitors. So, for their sake, I'm stuck with the friggin' Golden route again! Why do you have to tempt me with this video, my good man?
I spent a month in my mini van driving around Kyushu and Shikoku back in spring, I can highly recommend Kochi for sure. One of the highlights of my trip, although I think Amakusa was my favorite with Kagoshima way up there too. Mie where I live is also absolutely stunning.
Would love to see the drumming with at view! Looks very magical. 😊
I’d love to see those drummers. I’ve seen some of their TH-cam videos and they are amazing! 🤩 I’m taking my first trip to Japan later this year, and am so excited to finally see your beautiful country!
I have two favorite places that are kind of less visited, but I fell in love for the quiet, relaxing, country-vibes. One is hard to get by, took me around 16h by train and bus to get to from Imabari... it is in Kochi, named Yusuhara, it is a quiet small friendly and loving city I cannot stress enough it is a place I still dream of returning to. If you can drive, you can avoid the train and bus ride and get a 2h direct drive there, and the main hotel has an electric car recharging station - the long train ride is simply because it is NOT connected to any train lines, and in Kochi, most train lines drive around the seaside, and very few do the needed north-south connection, meaning you have to go around most of the island, before taking a bus ride inland to the city. The second one is directly accessible by Shinkansen, Iwakuni. You can just take a 10min walk from the train station to the main historical/tourist area, near the wooden bridge. Best of luck and some jealousy for those who can visit, I STRONGLY advise both.
Hi Ryotaro, I watched your video twice only because it was so good, that I could believe you made it. Cheers...
I been to Tokyo twice. If I go back again I want to go to the country side and the places tourists don’t normally go.
Some of the most fun times was when we walked through smaller neighborhoods in Kyoto and Tokyo. Looking for local restaurants and shops.
Too many tourists??? I'm trying not to laugh. In Catalonia we are 7 million inhabitants. Last year we received 25 million tourists (18 millions foreigners, the rest from other parts of isPain).
In 2024 the number of tourists has increased beyond those crazy numbers to the point were even the tourist industry is demanding to put some controls to it. The truth of the matter is that there's not enough water (just choosing a natural resource that we need to live) for that many people. That is "too many tourists".
Too many tourists in Japan or the people of Japan not used to seeing foreigners?
Hope y'all are good no typhoon damage
The saltiest ramen? That explains a lot 😄
i love taiko, i hope i'll see a performance at Tao Hill in Oita prefecture, thank you for the tipp
Pure numbers says it isn't too much compared to 10+ other countries, so Japan must be bad at dividing tourism to different spots and only feeding from couple known places. And that is also how I feel watching TH-cam contents made in Japan too; no matter who goes to Japan, they all go to same places in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka etc. talk about same things, shoot same places. Google says there are over 5000 museums in Japan but I did not see any museum content except from Rare Earth who I remember visited one and told us about roots of Godzilla and some other TH-camrs who talked about poop museuem. So what you are doing here is right thing to do, avoiding crowds and promoting hidden gems but Japan also have to provide with good infrastructure, easy transportation, hotels, living towns for day or night life for such places to pull people out of crowd cities.
LOL they really need to start mentioning the fukui dinosaur museum
Yes. One Mr.Chris comes to mind.
My kind of trips
On my next trip I want to head to one of the provincial cities like Akita just to be away from mainstream tourists. And spending a whole day to reach Mount. Fuji just to take a picture. I been to Japan 5 times and never could be bothered. I saw it a few times from the air and one time from the Shinkansen so I am golden.
Holy shi*t, that was rad!
does anyone know why the drum troupe is using the royal crest of ryuukyuu kingdom in their drums?
Why go to a convenience store to take a picture of my Fuji when you can go to the base of it and take great pictures from the Mizugatsuka Parking Lot. That is what I did this past Monday.
Also took pictures from the 5th station first after hiking up there from Yeti. Took the pictures at the parking lot on the way back.
The place I grew up is very beautiful, and has 0 tourists. It's where the roads end and the vast wilderness begins. There's hundreds of crystal clear lakes with sandy beaches. I'll never tell anyone where it is.
so many commercial for Chris xD
please learn how to split your videos into chapters. And both times in Takachiho (once alone, once with familiy) I was the only foreign tourist.
It's a marketing and messaging problem. The tourist industry (and government) doesn't do NEARLY enough to encourage/enable going to places other than the Big 3 Golden Route.
The messaging could do more to communicate local etiquette, norms, and general good behavior to keep Japan nice. Explain WHY it's nice here and INSPIRE them to keep it that way. And don't do it in the dry and sanitized NHK documentary way. Normies won't watch NHK. An official-looking PSA will not work on foreigners.
Most of all, if Japan is advertised like a theme park, expect people to show up looking for one. REAL PEOPLE live and work here. I try to remind people of that when they're blustering about Harajuku, Maid Cafe's, or Geisha. The Tourism marketing could do better to remind people of that subtly.
Same as tourism anywhere... People bringing their attitudes with them and expecting the place they visit to conform to their pig-headed attitudes. Respect where you are visiting, or don't come.
Chris will cry 😢
i think it is just the combination of two factors which you mentioned that just have a negative combination. the reduced value in the yen has just allowed a noticeable increase in "lower quality tourist" (idk how to correctly say it) that are just concentrated in the same places/tourist traps that has just resulted in fed up locals. from the people that you have collaborated with it has shown that if you just act like a decent human being and with respect, the locals wont ban you from returning
:D Is it that dirty English (even tho it's a pleonasm) scrub Cris that's editing your videos again? :D
We are hoping to visit Japan next year and we despise tourist spots and would rather see the culture as it. Out of respect of the people. We do not like to take pictures because it’s so over done and it intrusive normal local people . Please respective locals if you visit anywhere, it’s their home not yours.
well now everyone's going to go there草
If japanese people move away from small places why should tourist go there if only place open is small karaoke bar and lawson? Anyway most fun time i have had was small town in Aomori but i knew people from there.
Second bubble economy
Why are people going to stop coming
I was lucky to visit last year before tourism truly came back to a full swing.
The reason why there are so many tourists in Kyoto is because people want to see beautiful traditional Japan. Not modern ugly urban Japan that is the same looking as everywhere else in the world.
Too many tourists
Why are all these TH-camrs, based in Japan, making fun of Chris Abroad? He is such an affable guy. 🤭😄😉
Chris is friends with most of them and actually produces or supports a lot of them. Often does their camera work. He likes to make fun of himself and they like it too
Algorithm
Yes.