Jalan Research Center recently conducted a research about over-tourism in Japan, as international travelers to Japan has increased at higher pace than 2019.
According to the results, 59.7% of people in residence areas and 63.4% of people in business areas realized that tourists are crowded or slightly crowded. The ratios of answers that an increase in tourists give positive influences were 52.4% in residence areas and 75.7% in business areas.
The problems happened from over-crowded tourists were ‘atmosphere in a residence area has changed’ and ‘bad manner tourists,’ both of which were picked by 57.5% of people, followed by ‘not easy to get on a bus or a train or to enter a restaurant because of…
