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Town to block Mount Fuji view from troublesome tourists
TOKYO
A huge black barrier to block Mount Fuji from view will be installed in a popular photo spot by Japanese authorities exasperated by crowds of badly behaved foreign tourists.
Construction of the mesh net -- 2.5 meters high and the length of a cricket pitch at 20 meters -- will begin as early as this week, an official from Fujikawaguchiko town in Yamanashi Prefecture said.
"It's regrettable we have to do this, because of some tourists who can't respect rules," leaving litter behind and ignoring traffic regulations, he told AFP.
It is the latest direct action in Japan against overtourism after residents of Kyoto's geisha district banned visitors from small private alleys this year.
Record numbers of overseas tourists are traveling to the country, where monthly visitors exceeded three million in March for the first time ever.
Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, can be photographed from many spots in the resort town of Fujikawaguchiko.
But this viewpoint is particularly popular because the majestic volcano appears behind a Lawson convenience store, which are ubiquitous in Japan.
Due to this visual juxtaposition, "a reputation has spread on social media that this spot is very Japanese, making it a popular photo location," said the town official who declined to be named.
The mostly non-Japanese tourists are overcrowding a stretch of pavement next to the Lawson shop, he said.
After traffic signs and repeated warnings from security guards fell on deaf ears, the town in Yamanashi Prefecture decided on the huge screen as a last resort.
The measure is also meant to protect a nearby dental clinic against the onslaught of tourists. They sometimes park there without permission and have even been seen climbing on the roof of the clinic to get the perfect shot, the official said.
The town wishes it hadn't come down to this, he said, adding that the current plan is for the screen to be maintained until the situation improves.
Tourism to Japan has been booming since pandemic-era border restrictions were lifted, and the government has been working hard to boost visitor numbers.
But this has not been universally welcomed -- including in Kyoto where locals have complained of snap-happy tourists harassing the city's immaculately dressed geisha.
And this summer, hikers using the most popular route to climb Mount Fuji will be charged 2,000 yen each, with numbers capped to ease congestion.
Other top destinations worldwide are also struggling with visitor numbers, and on Thursday Venice began charging day-trippers for entry to tackle mass tourism.

24/04/2024

Tokyo Tsukiji fish market site to be redeveloped with 50,000-seat stadium, hotel, shopping center
TOKYO
In 2018, Tokyo’s aging Tsukiji Fish Market closed down and its wholesale operations relocated to the Toyosu district of the city. This wasn’t because Tsukiji was a bad location, however. If anything, the location was too good, as being in a developed, transportation-connected part of downtown meant there wasn’t space to build a new facility for the fish market to move directly into, and so the Toyosu site was constructed while the Tsukiji one was still in business.
That means that since the wholesale market left Tsukiji, there’s been a huge plot of unused land sitting at the edge of the neighborhood next to the Sumida River. The Tokyo metropolitan government has finally announced what’s going to be done with it: it’s going to serve as the site of a brand-new stadium, along with adjacent hotel, commercial, and office developments.
▼ Concept renderings of the new development for the old Tsukiji wholesale market site

Eleven different companies are currently involved in the project, including Mitsui Real Estate and the Yomiuri Newspaper group. The roughly 19-hectare plot sits adjacent to the Hama-rikyu Gardents.
▼ Currently a parking lot is pretty much all Google Maps shows for the site.

The developers are referring to the stadium as a “multi-stadium,” suitable for a variety of sporting, musical, and other entertainment events and expositions, with a capacity of roughly 50,000 visitors, roughly on par with Tokyo Dome, which opened 36 years ago, and much larger than the approximately 14,500-seat Budokan (though still smaller than the Japan National Stadium built for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021). The involvement of Yomiuri has some speculating that the Giants, the professional baseball team owned by the publisher that currently plays its home games at Tokyo Dome, will be associated but the team has made no public statement to that effect at this time.
Despite the Tsukiji wholesale market closing, the neighborhood continues to be a major leisure and tourism destination. Tsukiji’s “outer market,” the dense collection of restaurants and seafood shops on the streets in front of the wholesale facility, have remained in business, and those were the always the primary attraction for non-restaurant industry visitors in the first place. Especially with the Toyosu market having gained a reputation as a place catering to particularly deep-pocketed foreign tourists, Tsukiji has remained a vibrant part of the city, so building on that energy with a stadium and hotel isn’t a bad bet.
The first sections of the development are projected to open in 2029, with most of the place up and running by 2032.
Source: Yomiuri Shimbun, NHK News Web