TOKYO, Sep 18 (News On Japan) –
Over the three-day weekend, crowds had been drawn to numerous occasions throughout Japan, together with the “Kishiwada Danjiri Festival” in Osaka Prefecture, the “Imoni Stew Festival” in Yamagata, and the “Asakusa Samba Carnival” in Tokyo, highlighting the rising drawback of overtourism.
At Asakusa Temple, a preferred vacationer spot in Tokyo, international vacationers had been seen touching the lanterns and washing their faces within the temizuya (a water pavilion for ritual purification), which is a breach of etiquette, based on workers on the temple.
In Kamakura, a preferred vacationer spot in Kanagawa Prefecture, there was a big crowd at a railroad crossing often known as the sacred place of the favored manga “Slam Dunk.”
Crowds of vacationers had been noticed fortunately taking photographs on the railroad crossing, nonetheless, as it’s positioned on a roadway, locals concern harmful habits might result in accidents.
Japan grapples with ‘overtourism’
News On Japan – Sep 18
Over the three-day weekend, crowds had been drawn to numerous occasions throughout Japan, together with the “Kishiwada Danjiri Festival” in Osaka Prefecture, the “Imoni Stew Festival” in Yamagata, and the “Asakusa Samba Carnival” in Tokyo, highlighting the rising drawback of overtourism.
Tokyo’s Asakusa Samba Carnival returns after 4-year COVID hiatus
Kyodo – Sep 18
The Asakusa Samba Carnival, a late-summer Tokyo spotlight, returned Sunday following a four-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with sounds of passionate Brazilian music and explosive percussion filling a avenue in downtown Asakusa, drawing 300,000 spectators.
Tokyo beckons with Ginza and all its prospects
manilatimes.internet – Sep 16
Ginza is a district near the middle of Tokyo. It is a small neighborhood close to the fashionable Tsukiji fish market. Besides the glitz, the world is world-renowned for its unimaginable buying and leisure.
World’s largest fireworks illuminate Niigata sky
News On Japan – Sep 11
A panoramic show of Yonshakudama (Four Shaku Ball) fireworks — an 800-meter “gigantic flower” within the sky, weighing 420kg — befell on the Katagai Festival in Niigata over the weekend.
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