Locals in a Japanese town frustrated by overtourism had a plan to keep unruly sightseers away, but people are already poking holes in it. Literally.
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00:00 [Busy street noise]
00:06 Probably not the best solution, but probably if it is just about road safety,
00:10 building barriers, kind of, barriers to avoid people stepping on the road,
00:15 and making it safer as well, but a wall to avoid pictures,
00:21 I don't think it's the right solution.
00:23 There is not that much, like, very special here to be honest,
00:26 it's just the low sun and the Mount Fuji in the background.
00:29 And I think there is probably a, kind of, how to say,
00:36 a viral thing behind it, behind this picture.
00:40 I can understand why they want to do it,
00:42 I think that tourism has really ramped up here in Japan from what we've seen.
00:46 We've actually been in sort of four or five different places in Japan the last two weeks,
00:49 and there was a lot of tourism.
00:51 So I can see why for people who live and work here,
00:53 why they might want to do something about that, just to deter the tourists a little bit.
00:57 I noticed today that Mount Fuji is not even in the view,
01:00 and people are still taking pictures.
01:02 So that's the power of social media I think.
01:05 I never thought that the locals would have to go through all this trouble
01:10 just to get to this place.
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