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To fend off tourists, a town in Japan is building a big screen blocking the view of Mount Fuji (apnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by gedaliyah to c/nottheonion

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The neighborhood suddenly became a popular spot about two years ago, apparently after a photo taken in a particular angle showing Mount Fuji in the background of a local convenience store, became a social media sensation.

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[–] expatriado 109 points 6 months ago (3 children)

where i am from, when a place becomes a turist hotspot, we just think on ways to milk their 💵

[–] Dagnet 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So many places, even in japan, are dying to get some tourist 💵 attention and these guys just dont give a fuck. So weird, just start a takoyaki stand near the photo spot and rack in the cash. Eventually the fad will die anyway

[–] CosmoNova 6 points 6 months ago

It‘s a sure way to throw your actual profession down the gutter for what might be a short hype. The mass tourism we see globally today completely dwarfs everything anyone ever anticipated and it sure as hell isn‘t sustainable just by it‘s nature to cannibalize itself.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

It depends on the place. If there are places that are filled with independently wealthy people, they will try to make their home town as unfriendly as possible to tourists to reduce traffic.

[–] CosmoNova 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Japan has a strong and well educated middle class that isn‘t reliant enough on tourism to abandon their professions. Of course it’s a big part of their national economy today, but not every town is that needy or greedy for cash. Some just want to live their lives instead of opening and running a souvenir shop for the rest of their days or until tourists stop coming.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The article talks about how tourism is important to the town, literally being built on it, but it's just this spot is especially bad because tourists are behaving badly by illegally crossing the street and trespassing, among other things.

What you said is 100% just made up bullshit. Why?