Japan’s Most Stunning Hot Spring Town Limits Tourists | @AbroadinJapan #126
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I literally went to Ginzan Onsen last year in the winter……..this is sad
You visit Kurashiki City. Its a beautiful little historic canal city.
You should treat Pete like the child he is and take him to the Zoo. I don't remember you ever visiting a zoo for your channel.
kinda sad knowing ginzan limiting the entry of tourist to the area, booking the hotel itself is already challenging and i plan to visit there for a while if i couldnt get the booking. still planning for the trips but i hope all other foreign tourist not causing more trouble so we can enjoy all good things in japan peacefully.
I would love to see Japan in the Winter. Love me a good cozy winter landscape.
Definitely visit Fukui! I lived there for 11 years, and it is incredible! Check out Isaribi Onsen in Echizen Town, visit the Tojinbo Cliffs, and take a tour of Eiheiji Temple! Ono City also reminds me a lot of Takayama, but without all of the tourists.
@ 11:10 are these people completel idiots? Have they not lived life before? The US does it, the Japanese do it obviously, and many other countries do. Public transportation for prisoners is common. Very common. I've been extradited for BS and God has delivered me, I was proven innocent. All on public flights and then public transportation. US Marshals and then local city cops. Cut jacket to "hide" cuffed top to bottom. Don't be self-righteous and holier than thou, people lie all the time. That could be you on a plane next time.
Ginzan was one of the places featured in the old drama Oshin. Oshin was wildly popular in Asia in the 80s. The name Oshin entered Chinese popular culture to mean a woman who make sacrifices for others.
The next step is to limit the amount of breathing by tourists
The overwork culture in japan is just a normal thing in other countries as well. People would say that japan's work culture is bad this and there because japan got the cake on that argument. If you go to any other country, there are also good and bad companies. Companies who pay you for below minimum wage and make you work you until 2 AM or 3 AM. It's the same everywhere.
Tsunami doco pt. 2, if for just an update, perhaps?
Bro I am tired of all these western tourists ruining the fun for people, just be a respectful person it’s not that hard, by the time some of us get to visit, Japan will have locked everything away from foreigners 😢.
It’s sad that everything is getting slowly locked down.
I keep thinking these are old episodes because they always have really similar titles, "something something tourists"
I wish Tourists, regardless of the country they come from, were respectful no matter what country they're visiting.
And I'm not even angry. I'm sad that this has been happening more frequently.
Do, do, do the funky gibbon. We are here to show you how, Ooo, ooo, ooo
The Sewerage Science Museum is great!
None of these tourist limitations would be necessary if people would stop behaving like assholes. Or in the Japanese polite version, From December 23, 2024, to March 31, 2025, an advance reservation will be needed by non-staying visitors to enter Ginzan Onsen between 4pm and 9am to prevent overcrowding and a reduction of accidents and troubles caused by poorly prepared visitors. Poorly prepared visitors…ie. Assholes.
I'm beyond excited for Pete to be back in Japan with Chris. The two episodes on the original Journey Across Japan, with you two, are some of my favorites of all time. Hope you guys end up around in the middle of a city at night again 😂😁
Happy and safe travels, Pete!
Edit: Chris, let Pete go on any and all crazy adventures he thinks of!! Not only will it create great memories for you both (and Natsuki lol), but also be a fun/refreshing video 😀
Suprise suprise the chinese tourists being rude, entitled amd ruining another thing 🙄🙄🙄
An Icelandic geezer?
Just got to Kyoto today and it's horrible. Tourists seem to outnumber the locals. The people here surely just want to live their lives and it honestly makes me feel bad for wanting to visit.
Do the studio ghibli museum or nijigen no mori fun times 🎉
Are some streets in kyoto still tourist banned or did they lift all bans?
If everyone visits Ginzan hot spring chained to someone else, maybe each pairing counts as one person, so there may be ways around the limit 😉 I actually have a night booked in February at the Onjuku Yanadaya hotel – the special gourmet plan. I’d have tried for 2 nights, but unfortunately the limit is one.
Time seems to go fast. I feel that it was just a moment ago when Pete visited Japan and then Chris said that it was 2020 🙂
By the time I travel to Japan everything will be closed/limited except the LOST bar 😅
Hey Chris – loving the Pablo Escobar look 😂
the onsens in Ginzan onsen is notoriously hot.. it can reach 50C…even in their paid public bath.. once again mainland Chinese tourists are to blame.. they created way too many controversies in Japan due to their behaviors, like kicking cherry blossom trees for petals to fall for selfies, or kicking the deers in Nara.. I was in Aomori lining up for almost an hour with some Japanese elderly and kids in the line for an infrequent JR Tohoku bus at Lake Towada bus terminal back to Aomori station… then when the scheduled bus came.. a group of Chinese tourists came out of nowhere and just ran to the door in order to cut in line to try to grab the seats, not minding that there are Japanese people, elderly, kids that lined up early for almost an hour.. just to get a seat in the bus to avoid standing in the entire journey…and the thing is, Japanese people are too polite to scold them and just shook their heads and grumbled.
Fukui!
Tojinbo Cliffs, Dinosaur Museum, Echizen Daibutsu, Daihonzan Eiheiji Temple!
Your side kick talks too much
If your destination is Fukui I'd recommend Eiheiji (major Zen buddist temple complex), Tojimbo, Echizen washi sato Takefu Knife village. I've also heard Arawa Onsen is supposed to be good. What to eat: seafood and soba.
Honestly, those restrictions sound very reasonable. They were experiencing a problem with too many people in one area, so they identified the biggest source of that problem and instituted restrictions. Its not a blanket ban, just a reduction. Obviously, the way its implemented will make a big difference, but even 100 people entering an hour — 100 people who do not live in or have hotels in the neighborhood (village?)– still sounds like a lot of people for what seems like a very small area.
Will it improve the crowds? Eh…maybe? I guess they'll find out.
I, personally, wouldn't mind being able to visit as a tourist at some point, but as a hater of crowds, doing something to limit the number of tourists to the area will probably be better for those who actually do get in. I just imagine having crowds of people all taking pictures of the buildings kind of spoils the mood that they're all there for, you know? There are plenty of places in the world to see, many just as magical as Ginzan. You can't see them all, so maybe pass on the ones that are going to be too crowded to actually enjoy.
I tried booking a room at any of the Ginzan Onsen ryokan, but no go. I ended up staying at Yamagata-shi and took a day trip there. Would've been really nice to stay overnight. This was pre-Covid. The local bus that travel from the station to Ginzan Onsen is small, gets really crowded and runs infrequently. It'd be better if there's a separate bus for tourists, so the locals who are mainly elderly would be able to use them comfortably without jockeying for seats with the day trippers.
I'm not professional in turism, but during turism classes at university we discussed the problem of people visiting places for one day only. In this case the locals/government/institutions should come up with a full package of services or any idea to convince the tourists to stay for more than one day. So instead of limiting the amount of tourists coming to Ginza, they should ask themselves: What can we do to convince people to stay here for a couple of days?