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TrevorPeace
What's the point, when the country's government is still vacillating about free and open visa-less visitors?
TrevorPeace
And a photo, for an 'international' expo, with only Japanese signage? How dumb is that?
Cricky
Onion picking?
shogun36
With tourism at an all time low?
Makes sense……….
Sanjinosebleed
Seriously these guys are not in the real world! There are no tourists allowed into Japan unless they jump through more hoops than a circus lion! Wake up to yourselves JGOV!
Sven Asai
Island onions, guitar music and Spanish sherry at a Japanese tourism event, that’s by far the weirdest and unfitting combination I’ve heard in my whole life. lol
gogogo
An expo to show tour companies where to send their tourists? This stinks like we want foreigner money. The tour package requirement needs to be removed so people are not limited to X places.
Fighto!
Those Awaji onions look delicious! Sweetest in the world they say, almost like candy. Would love to visit Awajishima some day.
BertieWooster
"All you can grab" onions!
Wow! That's going to bring the foreign tourists in in droves!
Wonder what bright committee in what government office came up with that gem!
Disco Biscuit
These people have no idea, onion picking, if I travelled across the world to experience Japanese tourism innovation I’d be less then thrilled.
Next year we’ll all be taught about fries.
Tomato sauce on the agenda for 2030
Christopher Robert Noland
For what tourists ???
tora
...four French Tourists....With a Japanese chaperon. The phrases "so cheap" is said a lot.
Are you sure they're French? Not English?
gogogo
Even the Japanese government hasn't read their own website. No tour package = no tourist... No one wants to be part of a fixed tour. Read the MOFA website
Cricky
That’s not much of a display for an expected 150,000 people? I love the tape on the back corners holding the cloth on. Looks more like a science project display at a high school.
Patricia Yarrow
Let me know when the masks come off. Then I will be interested in going to places in Japan.
thepersoniamnow
Thats laughable.
When people gonna figure out that other people arent like you? Other people dont want/need a preset agenda set by the locals on what to buy. They explore on their own.
Japanese manGareth Myles
I am a tourist waiting to visit. No intention of doing so while chaperones and organised tours are involved. Only visa-free travel will induce me to travel.
Strangerland
Cool story bro.
Hiro
So many ignorant reader comments. You do know that if you travel to a different prefecture within a country, you can still be considered a tourist right? A tourist is basically someone who travel and visit places for pleasure and spend money.
gogogo
Read the MOFA website, you have to be part of a tour group. You can't wonder around all Japan. You get bused to a location have 2 hours to do whatever you want (with rules) then have to get back on your bus and go back to your hotel. That is the reason for this expo... Please bus your tourists here.