In the absence of tourists, locals reclaim their cities

"I am not against tourism but I am against its excesses. This crisis is proof that it is dangerous to rely completely on one single industry."

Agreed. The tourist boom has spoiled so many formerly lovely places. Places I used to love disappeared and were replaced by overcrowded Disneyland versions of themselves - with all the real people and activities that made it great pretty much gone and replaced by loud and unappreciative tourists.

Right now, it's like stepping back in time - in a good way.

Time to hit the tokyo museums.

Tourism per se is not a problem, the lack of management of the sheer volume of tourists causes the problem. Tourists, when viewed from a policy perspective are a logistics problem and should be managed as such.

Any monoculture be it in industry or agriculture is intrinsically unstable and prone to catastrophic collapse when subject to unexpected events.

If they like it back to themselves, WHY NOT ???.