The Importance Of Tourism To Japan

Most foreign tourists visiting Japan come to Tokyo, Kyoto and sometimes Hiroshima. In your opinion, how can tourism to less famous cities be increased?

There are many foreigners visiting Japan every year. On TV programs or newspapers, I sometimes see foreigners taking part in interviews, but most of them are at Tokyo or Kyoto. They do not have the chance to visit other places maybe because they are well not known to them. Anyway, to increase the tourism to less famous cities, the city should cooperate with the residents, advertise the city using various medias and make signs written in two or more languages.

First, to have more foreigners visit less famous cities, the city should strength bonds between the citizens. To attract foreigners and

Today, there are many local stuffed animal suit characters that are loved by many people. For instance, Kumamoto prefecture's local character Kumamon is particularly famous. These stuffed animal suit characters are called “yuru-chara” and they are efficient tool to attract people. Also, to make films or comic book related to the city is another way. For instance, recently, there is a Japanese animation film called “”Kokoro-ga-sakebitagatterunda” (My heart wants to scream) and the scene of this story is at Chichibu city on Saitama prefecture. These films or comic books encourage people to visit the city to take photo as the characters did in the stories. In addition, making unique commercials is a practical way to fascinate people to visit the city. For example, TV Saitama is known for it’s funny commercials and as often been featured on other popular TV programs. Above all, giving the city considerable publicity is one way to raise the number of people from

As you know, many foreigners visit Japan every year and number of it is expanding. However, I once heard in the news that tourists that come to Japan have difficulties reading the information written on marks on the road or the machines to buy tickets for the trains. Before I saw it, I could not have recognized that most marks are written in Japanese or romaji, and of course foreigners cannot understand the meaning, it was useless for them. To make the visitors comfortable and want to visit there again, the city must be kind to them. Also, making signs in various languages will help Japan to become globalized so that more and more people would like to visit there. As you can see, to increase tourists from abroad, the city must change boards and marks that visitors can understand