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It might be the circles that I move in, but it seems like Japan fell out of favour as a tourist destination? I know lots of people who went in the early 2000s,
by benjaminwootton 3y ago
It might be the circles that I move in, but it seems like Japan fell out of favour as a tourist destination?
I know lots of people who went in the early 2000s, and I also visited myself a handful of times. It doesn’t seem to be quite so on the radar nowadays, which is strange considering how interesting it is.
- askafriend 3y agoHm, might just be your circles? Anecdotally, lots of people I know have been to Japan in the past decade. I do notice less people talking about going in the past couple years (but that's due to COVID restrictions, etc)
- reustle 3y agoI think this is an interesting piece of semi-related anecdata from 2021 [0] > The Japanese cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto have earned the first, second and third spots respectively on Condé Nast Traveler’s 2021 list of the best major cities in the world. > The cities were selected in a poll of over 800,000 Condé Nast readers as part of the publication’s prestigious, long-running Reader’s Choice Awards, and won particular acclaim for their world-class cuisine, inspiring cultural attractions and seamless blending of tradition and modernity. [0] https://theincentivist.com/japanese-cities-conde-nast-best-major-cities-2021/ https://theincentivist.com/japanese-cities-conde-nast-best-m...
- decafninja 3y agoI wonder if that is less about Tokyo/Japan falling out of favor versus other Asian cities falling into favor? Since the early 2000s, many Chinese cities, as well as other Asian cities like Seoul, rapidly developed in both scale and modernity. Tokyo sort of remained the same.