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Japan to offer families 1 million yen per child to relocate from overcrowded TokyoPeople walk through a shopping street in Omotesando area of Tokyo YUICHI YAMAZAKI / Contributor/ Getty Images ...
In recent years, Kyoto has been buckling under the strain of overtourism, with congestion, bad behavior, and etiquette problems becoming so widely reported in news reports that some people in Japan ...
Once weary of hordes of foreign tourists crowding its narrow streets and ignoring etiquette, many in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto are longing for their return — missing the revenue ...
By Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN Japan is offering to pay families to move out of its overcrowded capital, in an effort to revitalize countryside towns and boost the falling birth rate ...
There’s one complaint visitors to Tokyo rarely make, and that is “not enough people.” With a population of 36 million, the Tokyo metropolitan area stuffs an average 6,800 people in each ...
The new toll won't do as much to limit overtourism at Japan's Mount Fuji as the daily cap and restricted access during late hours will.
But as Japan's rural regions empty out, it is getting more crowded in Tokyo, where the number of Japanese citizens grew the most - to 13.2 million.
(Bloomberg) -- Once weary of hordes of foreign tourists crowding its narrow streets and ignoring etiquette, many in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto are longing for their return -- missing the ...
The Japanese government is offering families 1 million yen (~$7,700) per child if they move out of Tokyo, the country's capital, CNN reports. The incentive is part of an effort to get residents to ...