She’s among the Kyoto trip leaders who work for the standout operator Inside Japan Tours. As tourism to the country ... and it’s easy to believe Japan’s cultural capital is completely ...

After Japan lifted its COVID pandemic travel restrictions in the spring of 2023, no other country in the world saw a tourism explosion like theirs. It’s easy to see why travellers are drawn to ...

I took a map of Kyoto and overlaid it on the game ... “One thing that made it really easy is that there are so many tourist spots in Kyoto,” he explains. “You have all of these famous ...

Kyoto is so concerned about a return to the “overtourism” that plagued the ancient capital before the pandemic that it has launched an online map that charts the crowds at tourist hotspots.

The best way to get around Kyoto is by bus and on foot. The abundance of English-language signs and announcements make Kyoto's bus systems easy for visitors to navigate. But all those bus fares ...

KYOTO -- The Kyoto Municipal Government and the Kyoto City Tourism Association have launched an online map in English and Chinese showing crowding forecasts for the ancient Japanese capital's ...

Public anger is so acute that it helped propel Kyoto’s new mayor, whose campaign pledged to fight against the excesses of tourism, to victory in elections in February.