The Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko has erected a giant black net to block views of Mount Fuji, a reaction to the town’s huge popularity on Instagram and other social media platforms.
“It is regrettable that we had to take such measures,” a local official told CNN last month, when the town’s council decided to block the most popular Fuji views with a 66-foot-long (20-meter) black screen, which was erected on May 21.
The small town in Yamanashi prefecture has become the center of an international controversy in recent weeks. A specific viewpoint in Fujikawaguchiko, which is at the foot of Mount Fuji and near the starting point for one of the most-used trails up the mountain, became so popular with visitors that it was causing problems for locals.
Which all of us who live in Japan have no issue handling, including when we travel. This is a shit excuse.
Yeah Japanese are known to be the best tourists abroad. It something someone learns by their society/culture (though I see odd balls here and there)
Tourists are not going to learn over short term and some are pigs aure. By having more available transcans will improve the situation.
What’s your solution then? Just telling them?
I mean, littering is illegal basically everywhere. If there are no trashcans, just hold the thing until you get to one. At least during festivals and such, you will see people piling trash next to full trashcans as neatly as possible, to cover your other case. “Don’t litter” doesn’t sound like a huge ask. As stated in the article, many of these people aren’t even staying in town and I know that station has (or at least had every time I went there) trashcans on the train platform. Convenience stores also have trashcans in front of and/or in the store that customers are welcome to use.
Yeah You would think people had better manners.
Sadly only a few convenient store has them. And I haven’t seen any trashcans at stations for a long time.
If you are in Japan and up for a challenge. I’ll buy you an ice cream, then you have find transcan before it melts and creates a mess.
Convenience stores nearly all have trashcans in my experience. I guess maybe not a street vendor? But, in most cases, what you buy is going to come in some bag that you can use or, in the case of certain parks, will actually have trashcans. I do live in Japan, but rural northern Japan as of a few months ago.
Okay let me know when you come to Tokyo. I’ll buy an ice cream 😂