• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I highly recommend visiting Kyoto despite these news. The city is absolutely beautiful and well worth the tourist tax. I hadn’t experience any prejudice there as a tourist and the local generally like foreigners.

    You can also avoid the tax with a day trip as Kyoto is right next to Osaka which is quite cheap.

    The overtourism issue is mostly entirely a skill issue as it’s free income that can be controlled through tourist taxes like this one. So this tax is fundamentally a good thing.