Should i come back to Japan this year as an Tourist

[worn mirage]

as much as possible, such as being quiet on trains, not eating on the streets, and being quiet and respectful wherever I am.

When I come to Japan, I genuinely feel slightly at home because it’s how I wish Australia was. A lot of respect, no one being overly loud and it is just a beautiful place.

I like going back to appreciate the streets of Japan and how it genuinely feels be with so much happiness and it’s why I keep going back because day-to-day life is stressful and it’s nice to get away from it all. I love Japan so much I’d probably have relocated years ago if it wasn’t for the fact that my career and partner are here and don’t want to move to Japan.

I keep seeing how there’s a lot of tourists, a lot of Americans especially, but tourist in general who are disrespecting the culture and not researching it prior to going. It genuinely makes me sad and I am also reading a lot about how Japan is filled with tourist.

The last thing I’d want to do is being an inconvenience and to be someone that when I’m in Japan people assume that I am negative or I shouldn’t be there. I generally love Japan because it’s so welcoming and so beautiful but with everything I’m saying I don’t want to come back and realise that I’m no longer welcomed.

I’m hoping someone who is from Japan could assist me with understanding if I’m there respectful quiet and genuinely try to assimilate as much as possible for my trip, if that type of tourist is accepted or if at the moment maybe I should just give it a few years before I come back .

[signal shoal]

haha it's fineeee

You're reading too much into it

If you want to come back as a tourist, come

Media focuses most on the rowdy tourists, so it will make the situation look particularly awful

also will focus on negative aspects as well, like locals getting frustrated and annoyed, not wanting tourists here etc.

It will never really focus on the positive aspects

There are people who have different opinions on the matter

but you shouldn't care.

They can think what they wanna think

you are here to have a vacation, you are trying your best to be respectful

You're golden

[thorn hollow]

So where in Japan do you plan to go next time? Japan is a big country, not every place there is very crowded and have lots of tourists. Maybe going to the less traveled parts would appeal to you and give you the experience you're looking for 🙂

[latent ferry]

Yeah don't worry about it. Don't let all those negativity content farmers on Youtube or IG or whatever paint such a bad picture of tourism.
It's nowhere as bad as they make it out to be, and generally Japanese people don't tend to dwell on the few incidents of bad tourists (actually a lot of times these incidents aren't even widely known about) any more than in other countries and understand that those misbehaving are just bad apples.
Those influencers just blow it out of proportion to sensationalize because drama = views/profit.