“people were also reported to pull out geisha’s hair ornaments and hit them with cigarette butts.”
okay, who the fuck is doing this? that isn’t a cultural difference or a lack of knowledge about Japanese society.
Why can’t mfs just be normal in Japan 🤦🏽♂️
Is this tourist, Yankees, or hooligans doing this?
This is absolutely disgusting, I feel so bad for the geisha and maiko, and also the Cafe stores and Tea houses that are going to lose business because of this poor behaviour
What kind of sociopath touches and throws cigarette butts at people?
Gross people ruin things for others a usual.
Geisha are special, not many hardly left. They are a special gem and need to be treated with adoration and respect for their life of art and service.
I dunno what kind of scum bag losers are doing this, but they should be locked away. They clearly can’t act like decent humans while out in public. As someone who has wanted to travel to Japan for the last 6 – 7 years but haven’t been able to, my biggest fear is doing something that would be considered disrespectful by the Japanese. For these people to get the opportunity to travel there and then be assholes is just insane.
This is exactly where racial profiling cops need to be.
So who is doing it?
Understandable to be honest. A shame but a few ruin it for the larger portion of tourists
Thank you, you trashy tourists for ruining stuff for everyone else. Idc if you don’t like Japan and want to bring it down, leave Japan and go back to your trashy country
Bruh, should have visited it when I have the chance. Hopefully this will blow over in a year or so.
I’m glad they’re doing something about it and protecting their residents but I feel disappointed that they even felt the need to. Disgusting behaviour.
Take their passport, arrest them, give them 23 days in jail, and then drop them off in front of their respective embassies.
And they enforce this ban how? Discrimination against anyone who doesn’t look Japanese enough….
I’ve been here 15 years and now you’re telling me I wasted chances to go to a Geisha district because some waste of life and air went and fucked it up?
God damn it.
And I got told by a non Japanese guy that I was being disrespectful for wearing shorts in Japan in September when it,was humid and 100°.
Good.
Last I was there these stupid tourists, Spanish speaking I think, were chasing the Geisha girls down the street like paparazzi. They are supposed to be private people in Japanese culture.
What happens to foreign residents who actually call Kyoto their home? Will they be ostracised because of these idiot tourists?
Looking at the comments of people pointing fingers as if they’re much better
Every time I watch a video or read something about Japanese social rules, I think most of them are just common sense right? Like, being quiet on a train, not throwing your trash on the floor, stuff like that. Some things are Japan specific, but most of these rules are common. But looks like I was wrong again and many people just don’t care about others at all. Are they like this just on vacation or do they go trough their whole life like that?
Kyoto should just ban tourists period then they’ll be happy.
It was only a matter of time, considering how popular Japan has gotten recently.
I could smell this kind of shit when I first went there 15 years ago, with a girl who was all about how the Japanese are nice, well-educated and how it’s a pity our country (France) is not like Japan. Right before being disrespectful as hell by not respecting people because she couldn’t be bothered to wait in line for instance. Small stupid shit like this that just piss people off.
I actually have a trip in April, and my hotel is in the Gion district. Does anybody know if I’m going to need to cancel and book another hotel?
Why can’t I find any articles about this in Japanese? Only old articles about manners from December last year
They should really identified the tourist origin.
This is just CNN and SCMP reporting what a govt. official has said. No ordinances have been passed. 祇園観光客規制 yields no results either. This is a nothingburger.
Well this is shit and I wonder how much more culturally important areas may begin to ban foreigners
Well that’s fucked up. These idiots don’t deserve to be there if they can’t keep conduct
Surely this will in life Japanese tourists too, right? Right?
Good.
I’m so upset, visiting this place used to be my childhood dream and now I won’t be able to do it any time soon 🙁
I’m just happy they’ll feel safer
man i spent 2 months there, never saw any trouble tbh. and i think 99% of tourists are normal people
the 1% who do shit, should be punished STRONGLY, and the punishment should be written on papers and showed at the train stations etc to everyone. and with STRONGLY i mean it. 3-7 days prison minimum.
money punishment doesn’t help with that. gaijins get thrown sometimes for no reason into the prison, so people who harass geishas, they should go to prison too. i think such punishment would really fear off those bastards
Do people seriously do this? The fuck?
yeah…..people are shit. cant really blame japan here.
That’s so sad. It’s a beautiful, historical area and it was one of my favorite places in Japan when I went. It’s also where I tried strawberry marshmallows for the first time, a memory I treasure.
I am sad to hear that, I wish I could visit there someday. But I am glad that they protect the women and girls from awful behaviour like that. Some people are really nasty and disgusting.
Well sucks for us I guess… Glad I’ve already done my world tour of Japan during my first year, well I still had honeymoon syndrome
Just one more thing I’ll never get to experience in my life because I didn’t get there in time. Another regret for the pile.
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How exactly are they going to implement this though? Will there be gates and you have to show proof that you’re a resident or a client before entering the street? Such a shame. I hope the geishas will feel safer in going about the streets. Stupid tourists ruining it for everyone
The tourism push blew up the city. It isn’t the same place it was 10-15 years ago. The economic tradeoffs weren’t even worth it——the city went bankrupt in the midst of the boom.
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It’s all just so silly.
“people were also reported to pull out geisha’s hair ornaments and hit them with cigarette butts.”
okay, who the fuck is doing this? that isn’t a cultural difference or a lack of knowledge about Japanese society.
Why can’t mfs just be normal in Japan 🤦🏽♂️
Is this tourist, Yankees, or hooligans doing this?
This is absolutely disgusting, I feel so bad for the geisha and maiko, and also the Cafe stores and Tea houses that are going to lose business because of this poor behaviour
What kind of sociopath touches and throws cigarette butts at people?
Gross people ruin things for others a usual.
Geisha are special, not many hardly left. They are a special gem and need to be treated with adoration and respect for their life of art and service.
I dunno what kind of scum bag losers are doing this, but they should be locked away. They clearly can’t act like decent humans while out in public. As someone who has wanted to travel to Japan for the last 6 – 7 years but haven’t been able to, my biggest fear is doing something that would be considered disrespectful by the Japanese. For these people to get the opportunity to travel there and then be assholes is just insane.
This is exactly where racial profiling cops need to be.
So who is doing it?
Understandable to be honest. A shame but a few ruin it for the larger portion of tourists
Thank you, you trashy tourists for ruining stuff for everyone else. Idc if you don’t like Japan and want to bring it down, leave Japan and go back to your trashy country
Bruh, should have visited it when I have the chance. Hopefully this will blow over in a year or so.
If we got the geisha’s, then how about we [bring back the samurai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsujigiri)
I’m glad they’re doing something about it and protecting their residents but I feel disappointed that they even felt the need to. Disgusting behaviour.
Take their passport, arrest them, give them 23 days in jail, and then drop them off in front of their respective embassies.
And they enforce this ban how? Discrimination against anyone who doesn’t look Japanese enough….
I’ve been here 15 years and now you’re telling me I wasted chances to go to a Geisha district because some waste of life and air went and fucked it up?
God damn it.
And I got told by a non Japanese guy that I was being disrespectful for wearing shorts in Japan in September when it,was humid and 100°.
Good.
Last I was there these stupid tourists, Spanish speaking I think, were chasing the Geisha girls down the street like paparazzi. They are supposed to be private people in Japanese culture.
What happens to foreign residents who actually call Kyoto their home? Will they be ostracised because of these idiot tourists?
Looking at the comments of people pointing fingers as if they’re much better
Every time I watch a video or read something about Japanese social rules, I think most of them are just common sense right? Like, being quiet on a train, not throwing your trash on the floor, stuff like that. Some things are Japan specific, but most of these rules are common. But looks like I was wrong again and many people just don’t care about others at all. Are they like this just on vacation or do they go trough their whole life like that?
Kyoto should just ban tourists period then they’ll be happy.
It was only a matter of time, considering how popular Japan has gotten recently.
I could smell this kind of shit when I first went there 15 years ago, with a girl who was all about how the Japanese are nice, well-educated and how it’s a pity our country (France) is not like Japan. Right before being disrespectful as hell by not respecting people because she couldn’t be bothered to wait in line for instance. Small stupid shit like this that just piss people off.
I actually have a trip in April, and my hotel is in the Gion district. Does anybody know if I’m going to need to cancel and book another hotel?
Why can’t I find any articles about this in Japanese? Only old articles about manners from December last year
They should really identified the tourist origin.
This is just CNN and SCMP reporting what a govt. official has said. No ordinances have been passed. 祇園観光客規制 yields no results either. This is a nothingburger.
Well this is shit and I wonder how much more culturally important areas may begin to ban foreigners
Well that’s fucked up. These idiots don’t deserve to be there if they can’t keep conduct
Surely this will in life Japanese tourists too, right? Right?
Good.
I’m so upset, visiting this place used to be my childhood dream and now I won’t be able to do it any time soon 🙁
I’m just happy they’ll feel safer
man i spent 2 months there, never saw any trouble tbh. and i think 99% of tourists are normal people
the 1% who do shit, should be punished STRONGLY, and the punishment should be written on papers and showed at the train stations etc to everyone. and with STRONGLY i mean it. 3-7 days prison minimum.
money punishment doesn’t help with that. gaijins get thrown sometimes for no reason into the prison, so people who harass geishas, they should go to prison too. i think such punishment would really fear off those bastards
Do people seriously do this? The fuck?
yeah…..people are shit. cant really blame japan here.
That’s so sad. It’s a beautiful, historical area and it was one of my favorite places in Japan when I went. It’s also where I tried strawberry marshmallows for the first time, a memory I treasure.
I am sad to hear that, I wish I could visit there someday. But I am glad that they protect the women and girls from awful behaviour like that. Some people are really nasty and disgusting.
Well sucks for us I guess… Glad I’ve already done my world tour of Japan during my first year, well I still had honeymoon syndrome
Just one more thing I’ll never get to experience in my life because I didn’t get there in time. Another regret for the pile.
More on this subject from other reputable sources:
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– Japan Times (A-): [Tourists banned from private alleys in Kyoto’s geisha district](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/07/japan/society/kyoto-tourists-geisha/)
– IOL (C): [Japan bans tourists from entering private alleys in Kyoto’s geisha district](https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/japan-bans-tourists-from-entering-private-alleys-in-kyotos-geisha-district-d3381d6e-f9e1-41d4-9a65-da884bca2c4c)
– Star (D): [Tourists banned from private alleys in Kyoto’s geisha district](https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2024/03/07/tourists-banned-from-private-alleys-in-kyoto039s-geisha-district)
– South China Morning Post (C+): [Japan’s Kyoto to ban visitors from geisha district area after surge in ‘out of control’ incidents](https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3254268/japans-kyoto-ban-visitors-geisha-district-after-surge-out-control-incidents)
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Like I wanted to see that anyway
How exactly are they going to implement this though? Will there be gates and you have to show proof that you’re a resident or a client before entering the street? Such a shame. I hope the geishas will feel safer in going about the streets. Stupid tourists ruining it for everyone
The tourism push blew up the city. It isn’t the same place it was 10-15 years ago. The economic tradeoffs weren’t even worth it——the city went bankrupt in the midst of the boom.