Hokkaido city posts guards at tourist hotspot ahead of Lunar New Year

If it's a "popular tourist spot" why don't the authorities build public-viewing infrastructure there like a platform? Bringing tourists to a provincial town is the same as bringing business. Embrace it, don't fight it.

"People are even entering private property without permission to take photos," said Hidetoshi Itagaki, an 80-year-old local resident.

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Nice to be able to have a chat and a cup of tea with overseas visitors isn’t it?

Charge them a fee to enter, make money from it, don't sit and gripe about it! They will come anyway, why not profit from it.

Happy Lunar New Year everyone.

The Year of the Snake begins.

May it be a good one for us all.

If it's a "popular tourist spot" why don't the authorities build public-viewing infrastructure there like a platform?

The lady walked down the train line to the one spot you can take a photo of sky, sea, and snow in the foreground with no building in the way. Its normal to expect people to not walk down train lines or to stand in the middle of a road.

Minor sakura spots or toritetsu spots have similar problems with Japanese people taking photos. My suggestion would be to allow police to instantly punish trespassing and traffic obstruction by confiscating cameras and phones. Give em one warning and a two minute countdown to confiscation.

Well, if you're dumb enough to stand on train tracks that have running trains, then this might be a case of Darwin's idea of natural selection.

Tokyo-mToday  09:26 am JST

Come to Japan. Don't come to Japan.

I think it's more like Come to Japan. But not so many at once. And please don't do D/A things.

This issue goes back a decade at least.

"Wang Yang, one of China's four vice-premiers, said the "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists was harming the country's image."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22573572

"Narratives of exceptionalism and nationalism are crucial ingredients in making an “ugly Chinese” tourist."

https://thediplomat.com/2016/10/why-are-chinese-tourists-so-badly-behaved/

Although I think that for the most part we are past that, and instead are now buried with tourists (from China, SKorea and elsewhere) who are influenced by SNS and have to video/photograph/upload everything and will do anything to get a good shot.

Japanese need to remember 99.9999% of the tourist are amazing people. Stop causing trouble for a few. Even Japanese overseas have the same rude and disrespectful behavior.

Last night we enjoyed the Lunar New Year with Chinese friends and a Chinese hot pot. No snakes.

Although I think that for the most part we are past that, and instead are now buried with tourists (from China, SKorea and elsewhere) who are influenced by SNS and have to video/photograph/upload everything and will do anything to get a good shot.

As with toritetsu, its rules and morality out of the window so long as I get my photograph.

This appears to be the main problem now, more than graffiti, littering, suitcases on trains etc.

The move comes as the city has been grappling with increasingly troublesome behavior from foreign tourists on film location tours, including a recent incident where a Chinese woman died after being hit by a train while taking photos on the train tracks.

Darwin's theory at work. Amazing how many of these irritating "influencers" just keep demonstrating it to us.

JeffLee - once again you make a very good point.

Japanese need to remember 99.9999% of the tourist are amazing people. Stop causing trouble for a few. Even Japanese overseas have the same rude and disrespectful behavior.

Well said!

Good that they are doing something , security guards are a positive measure , and creating jobs for some overseas people no doubt !

Just start charging tourists for everything. Might as well since they are such a nuisance for the lives of people who live in Japan but don’t benefit from tourism. Which is basically most of the population.