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Small inconveniences like these are stacking up in a country that has rapidly become one of the world’s premier tourism destinations. Having lived for nearly 15 years in Shibuya — home to the famed Scramble Crossing where every new arrival is seemingly required by international law to take a picture — I have a keener sense than most of the change tourism has wrought.
Yes, tourists crowd out some of my favorite restaurants and bars, letting their kids run around in a manner no self-respecting Japanese parent would allow. Yes, people stop for selfies in the middle of the crossing, impeding the flow of an intersection that’s used by half a million people a day.
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All of which is to say, I get it. Public frustration with overtourism is understandable. But there’s a growing backlash that threatens to lose touch with the benefits they’re bringing. And for all the hassle, I’m still fully in favor of the government’s goal to boost visitors to 60 million by the end of the decade.
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