Poring over the ledger at her more than 230-year-old liquor shop in Kyoto, Yasuko Fujii has mixed feelings about the return of foreign tourists who would crowd the streets of Japan’s ancient capital before the pandemic – and buy lots of whisky and wine.
hard-hit hotels and traditional sweet shops should have been bracing for a tourism surge. Instead, only some visitors have trickled in as Japan is allowing a small number ofPrime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose ruling party is expected to win an upper house election on July 10, is seen sticking to a gradual easing of measures after he won public support for keeping borders shut last year. He would face a backlash if visitors sparked fresh COVID cases.
The number of hotels that shut down nationwide rose to a five-year high in 2021 and the local tourism industry in Kyoto has been badly hit, according to research firm Teikoku Databank. “The damage is quite significant,” said Teikoku analyst Keisuke Noda. Demand has dried up for businesses like rental kimono shops, aimed mostly at foreigners.tourists“Kyoto is a tourist city and without foreignwe’re really in trouble,” said Hiroshi Fujie, the 70-year-old director of Hakuba, adding he was not sure if the store could survive a third year without foreignFor Ms. Fujii, the liquor shop owner, business is back to 60-70% of pre-pandemic levels thanks to JapaneseRoughly 5.
Back at the fish shop, workers in rubber boots and aprons were cutting up salmon and tuna, which they arranged carefully alongside clams and oysters at the store front. Ms. Kimura said she still wanted people from “all walks of life” to try their fish. “The queue, though, is a nightmare”. –
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