Foreign visitors to Japan top 3 mil. in March, single-month record

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1. No kidding.

   Suddenly my friends, their cousins, their mothers, their colleagues, the wives and the mistresses all are coming to Japan,,,,

2. Too many

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4. Yeah I’m avoiding kyoto/osaka.. Should be unbearable. Tokyo perhaps not as many but idk

5. Yeah, I can’t walk outside without running into a few. Even my local station is being overrun.

6. it’s good for japan’s economy but god I wish they have manners legit just see some grown dudes recording elementary childrens group going to school back to front. gross.

7. Sakura season with a weak ass yen? Of course!

8. Well, the 2020 Olympics were a big shitstorm among the other things. Japanese people might not be that happy about this but the gov. plan for the 2020 was 40mil tourists a year. So with slight delay they might get that figure this year actually.

9. Get those train chinups done.

10. Just came back from Japan and even i was thinking i was seeing nearly as much tourists as Japanese people. Some of the toursists were rude as hell though. Especially in Kyoto, im glad people got banned from certain areas.

11. Disgusting.

12. Yay one of the most regarded destinations becoming a Disneyland toilet. Wonderful what people do to beautiful things.

13. this is why i hated doing anything on my days off in tokyo. It was the worst.

14. Hell yeah. There right now

15. No wonder, my bus is always full I can’t get in😂

16. That’s what happens when you close your country for almost 3 years

17. Cue all the gatekeepers in the comments generalising about how terrible all tourists are based on subjective and/or anecdotal examples.

    Classic reddit.

18. Who remembers Tokyo hosted the Olympics.

19. Japan is truly the only country in the world worth visiting. All other countries are shit!

20. Why so many salty people that believe they own the country? Lmao. Most of you are foreigners complaining about foreigners.

21. The government really has to find a way to “send” tourists outside of the Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka axis. Discounts, coupons, whatever. These three places are becoming too crowded with tourists.

22. Booze under blossom, yay.

23. For the people confused. Most of these tourists are form other Asian countries, I guess Koreans top the charts.

24. I’m actually leaving for Japan tonight! Using Tokyo and Osaka as homebase but hoping to check out Saitama, Yokohama, and Kobe as well. Was maybe looking at Chiba but 2hrs on a train when I can spend 2hrs exploring doesn’t seem that good of a trade off

25. Just got back from Japan after a couple weeks. Definitely feels clogged with tourists but admittedly I went to touristy places. It really feels like a third of mainland China is in Japan right now

26. I am doing my bit for Japanese country tourism. Flew down to Shikoku and rented a car. Just finished a lap of the island. How dense is the forest in Shikoku? Coastal Japan is like the Australian Coastline but with less sand.

27. I’ve been travelling Japan for over a month now and yes there are many tourists in certain areas. Calling foreigners rude etc. is being rude yourself, yes there are some rude tourists but many also dont know the customs or they seem rude because many people are annoying everyone. I’m always respectful, so dont generalize.
    there are plenty of places that are more beautiful because they have no people (japanese included). I was in okayama and it is empty and has also beautiful spots to visit.

28. I say let them come! And send them my way in Hokkaido. I run a business that relies on tourism, so we need more visitors up here.

29. Living here has become a nightmare again haha. Every morning on the trains I cannot even stand with two legs on the floor with all the suitcases.. I’ve already fallen twice..

30. Interesting that all these people wanting to exchange their foreign currency for Yen isn’t really affecting the exchange rate. Or maybe that is the point. The Yen is being held low by the government so that more people will travel to Japan.

    If only I could convince my family to come here and visit me. I keep trying to tell them that everything is 50% off here.

31. I’ve been avoiding central Osaka recently since it’s jam-packed, and if I *do* try and accomplish any kind of shopping, it’s assumed I’m a tourist (moreso than usual anyhow).