This seems like a measure that punishes local Japanese who go on weekend getaways in favor of foreign tourists with their foreign currencies.
Local residents good, tourists bad
Japan 2020, 2021, 2022: The lack of tourists is hurting the economy, we need our tourists back.
Japan 2023: The high number of tourists is hurting the the environment, we need to punish them, and locals.
Their logic is because a few tourists are being a nuisance littering etc? Why not implement the same model Singapore has? Also Indonesia has some new laws to prevent idiot tourists ruining it for the rest. Tunnel vision by this government is dumbfounding. It’s not Fractal Equations.
Question: if you wanted to avoid hurting locals while trying to capitalize on tourists, would increasing prices of physical tickets AND welcome suica while keeping prices the same when using an IC card be a feasible solution?
I haven’t seen many Japanese locals use a physical ticket, most have a IC card loaded onto their phone or have an IC card, but with the sales of IC card being stopped, tourists are probably buying physical tickets or using Welcome Suica right?
Awesome. I wasn’t poor enough already.
Price gouge citizens and blame the foreign tourists. You can’t even blame JR, the national government served this one to them on a golden platter.
Disgusting.
How would this work? Does the price of the monthly commuter pass go up also?
Tourists, who will go anyway, travel as you please. Local residents, think twice about that train ride. But also, you’ll probably go anyway, so thanks for your patronage. Banzai.
Like 2-5$ price increase to public transport prices would hurt a tourist and would make it to change plans, especially those who planned the trip a couple of months in advance and ready to spend couple of thousands.
On the other hand, regular people will feel this… :/
Not sure this will discourage the (overseas) tourists to take the train. It will just punish locals.
But corruption cough cough
Yet another drama in preparation.
The yen is weak as hell. It’s not phasing anyone but locals…thanks a lot, greedy policital bastards. Also, we haven’t even reached 100% numbers of 2019 per their own reporting.
nice, they found yet another way to sodomize the local residents, great thinkers in this country
You’ll never guess what I’ve just read!!!
An old, wrinkly man with dyed hair/no hair/glasses in any combo just had 500 meetings with other old, wrinkly men and the outcome was to make a stupid decision and piss everyone off!
I can’t wait until we vote in the next old, wrinkly man with dyed hair/no hair/glasses in any combo to step in and make MORE stupid decisions!
Not a single functioning brain cell remains. No wonder the current PM’s approval rating is 34%. It’s like he’s just trying to become unpopular at this point.
I miss the Go-To travel days…kinda
Just sounds like a lame justification for a rate hike.
I wonder why they thought tourists will plan their travel on weekends. Toutists won’t wait for a weekend to go out like a local.
Not sure who proposed this idea in the first place.
This doesn’t even pass the sniff test
How clueless are these people?
Lol tourism are literally bringing money tho… what the .. jpn wants?
Are they just trying to piss everyone off? I get things are more expensive now but like ‘we need tourists, we have tourists, let’s make travel more expensive for EVERYONE’ I don’t understand.
Btw, of you’re going to Kyoto, skip Kiyomizudera )the place in the pic). The place is crowded as hell
Japan is already an expensive “once in a lifetime” trip to many, especially from the west. Hiking train fares will do absolutely nothing to deter tourists.
The best way to solve over-tourism is by promoting areas of Japan that are not Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. How about more investment in order to bring Tohoku or Shikoku onto the map of tourists?
This will surely hurt locals tho?
So, Just like any other country in the world then.
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This seems like a measure that punishes local Japanese who go on weekend getaways in favor of foreign tourists with their foreign currencies.
Local residents good, tourists bad
Japan 2020, 2021, 2022: The lack of tourists is hurting the economy, we need our tourists back.
Japan 2023: The high number of tourists is hurting the the environment, we need to punish them, and locals.
Their logic is because a few tourists are being a nuisance littering etc? Why not implement the same model Singapore has? Also Indonesia has some new laws to prevent idiot tourists ruining it for the rest. Tunnel vision by this government is dumbfounding. It’s not Fractal Equations.
Question: if you wanted to avoid hurting locals while trying to capitalize on tourists, would increasing prices of physical tickets AND welcome suica while keeping prices the same when using an IC card be a feasible solution?
I haven’t seen many Japanese locals use a physical ticket, most have a IC card loaded onto their phone or have an IC card, but with the sales of IC card being stopped, tourists are probably buying physical tickets or using Welcome Suica right?
Awesome. I wasn’t poor enough already.
Price gouge citizens and blame the foreign tourists. You can’t even blame JR, the national government served this one to them on a golden platter.
Disgusting.
How would this work? Does the price of the monthly commuter pass go up also?
Tourists, who will go anyway, travel as you please. Local residents, think twice about that train ride. But also, you’ll probably go anyway, so thanks for your patronage. Banzai.
Like 2-5$ price increase to public transport prices would hurt a tourist and would make it to change plans, especially those who planned the trip a couple of months in advance and ready to spend couple of thousands.
On the other hand, regular people will feel this… :/
Not sure this will discourage the (overseas) tourists to take the train. It will just punish locals.
But corruption cough cough
Yet another drama in preparation.
The yen is weak as hell. It’s not phasing anyone but locals…thanks a lot, greedy policital bastards. Also, we haven’t even reached 100% numbers of 2019 per their own reporting.
nice, they found yet another way to sodomize the local residents, great thinkers in this country
You’ll never guess what I’ve just read!!!
An old, wrinkly man with dyed hair/no hair/glasses in any combo just had 500 meetings with other old, wrinkly men and the outcome was to make a stupid decision and piss everyone off!
I can’t wait until we vote in the next old, wrinkly man with dyed hair/no hair/glasses in any combo to step in and make MORE stupid decisions!
Not a single functioning brain cell remains. No wonder the current PM’s approval rating is 34%. It’s like he’s just trying to become unpopular at this point.
I miss the Go-To travel days…kinda
Just sounds like a lame justification for a rate hike.
I wonder why they thought tourists will plan their travel on weekends. Toutists won’t wait for a weekend to go out like a local.
Not sure who proposed this idea in the first place.
This doesn’t even pass the sniff test
How clueless are these people?
Lol tourism are literally bringing money tho… what the .. jpn wants?
Are they just trying to piss everyone off?
I get things are more expensive now but like ‘we need tourists, we have tourists, let’s make travel more expensive for EVERYONE’
I don’t understand.
Btw, of you’re going to Kyoto, skip Kiyomizudera )the place in the pic). The place is crowded as hell
Japan is already an expensive “once in a lifetime” trip to many, especially from the west. Hiking train fares will do absolutely nothing to deter tourists.
The best way to solve over-tourism is by promoting areas of Japan that are not Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. How about more investment in order to bring Tohoku or Shikoku onto the map of tourists?
This will surely hurt locals tho?
So, Just like any other country in the world then.
so japan just discovered yield management?