Maybe I’m too Usian to understand this but the article doesn’t call out tourists from any particular country. So it’s odd to me that China is being called out so much in the comments.
People know… If this news was from somewhere in Europe everyone would be blaming the Brits in the comments. It’s known…
Seems odd to me as well. I feel like we need proof other than strangers on the Internet just making claims.
Strangers making claims on the internet is all this place is. There’s no “proof” needed or available here.
oh ok, thanks for deciding that for the rest of us. lol
My impression overall here is that most tourists try to behave very well. I see people from my home country offer gentle gestures like carrying an elderly person’s bag up the stairs that they would not do at home.
The problem are the 3 fuckers among 10000 who behave like shit, and the fact that there are so many tourists especially in high season.
They do not “behave like shit”, they simply “shit”
Among them, “entering houses without permission to use the bathroom,” “break-ins,” “littering,” and people “defecating in private yards” and “complaining when residents catch them.”
I really don’t understand how a tourist can think any of this makes sense. Like, would they do this in their country too?
China. These are China-nese tourists. They used to do the same shit in Taiwan before the government banned them.
I saw a mom put their kid on the trashcan so he could pee into a trash can. This was an indoor mall.
It’s a frequent issue in Hong Kong too where people from the mainland will just shit right in the street and walk away like its no big deal.
I was not aware that mainland China had designated shitting streets.
Huh
how do they wipe?
They don’t.
Really though people carry toilet paper in China because public restrooms don’t have it.
Like, would they do this in their country too?
Absolutely
I live in Wyoming, near Yellowstone. The shit tourists do would blow your mind. Chinese tourists are hands down the worst. Comically bad.
Am also in Wyoming and can confirm.
They do
Some things are meant to be local and communal…just let it be.
Wouldn’t a bunch of porta potties solve this?
Someone shits in your yard and you’re going to set a porta potty out by the curb? No you’re not.
There are public bathrooms at the park. It was packed with tourists and their litter when I went in 2024 though.
As for the streets where people actually live, they shouldn’t need to have a bunch of ugly porta-potties occupying the streets in front of their home. It’s a place where people have always lived, not a place that exists solely to be a tourist attraction.
I guess I wrongly assumed all tourists would have the common sense to not defacate in someone else’s yard.
There are public bathrooms at the park. It was packed with tourists and their litter when I went in 2024 though.
Soooo, the festivals are probably put on by the city or area. If the bathrooms at the park were packed, then the city and area should provide more porta potties. It’s kind of simple. The cities probably wanted the tourism, but are now realizing that it might not be worth it? That I get. The pooping thing though, that I don’t get.
To be fair, they might’ve been expecting the trash, but probably weren’t expecting all of the renegade pooping. Even at Ueno Park in Tōkyō, which is probably one of the most crowded places during sakura season, you’ll see extra trash bins, but not porta-poddies.
I also didn’t go to Arakurayama during the festival. I went in February, and if it was already crowded with literring tourists then, it must be awful during sakura season. Japan has been receiving record overtourism for the past few years (ever since re-opening in late 2022). I saw it mentioned on NHK News like almost every day. Yeah, they might be a little tired of the extra tourists now.
Not with Chinese tourists it would seem.
lol… wtf
Worth reviewing what type of sanitation services are available. If people are completely ignoring adequate public recepticles and bathrooms then that can be addressed a variety of ways but that seems relatively less likely in my opinion.
Especially with people breaking into homes to use the bathroom. Hard to imagine anyone resorting to this except out of sheer desperation, which would suggest that the number of people being invited over is simply too many for the infrastructure to handle.
If the infrastructure is inadequate to handle the volume of people then cancelling the event or limiting visitors is the responsible thing to do. It will come with an economic hit (I imagine quite a few businesses see increased sales volume during the festival) but for the dignity of both the tourists and residents it’s important not to stretch the existing infrastructure beyond capacity.
Would be interesting to hear what the tourists perspective have been over the past few years, especially if the issue got this bad.
You have never been to Japan, have you? If any country in the world has excellent public bathroom infrastructure, it’s Japan. Always clean, generally free, and within 1-2 minutes walking range.
The already existing infrastructure may be of good quality but it doesn’t really matter if the capacity isn’t there to meet the volume of people.
In fact, let’s agree that your point is true. Wouldn’t people want to use those immaculately maintained facilities and, if they aren’t, could it be because the wait is too long?
I have trouble buying a narrative that any person chose to skip over a widely available well maintained public toilet to break into a person’s home and use their bathroom. You should too.
I agree that most people wouldn’t opt for that, but most tourists also don’t behave like that. The vast majority behaves very well, they are somewhat aware of Japanese manners and try to adapt (sometimes in sweet, dorky ways, but who am I to judge, I probably look the same).
There are a few people who do this and they ruin the image for everyone.
The issue is not the infrastructure, really. It is excellent and in excellent condition, across the country.
Imagine you have perfect toilets, some even designed by star architects, free to use for everyone and clean. And some fucker just decides to take a dump in someone’s garden, for whatever reason. Is that the problem of the infrastructure?
The infrastructure aren’t inadequate, tourist are entitled.
That’s not the first time Japan people have problem with tourists
Hard to imagine entitlement leading someone to break into a home in a foreign country to use a toilet though, right?
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