This Japanese town cancelled its cherry blossom festival to stop overtourism. It didn’t work

This Japanese town cancelled its cherry blossom festival to stop overtourism. It didn’t work

It took a decade of noise, trash and at least one tourist defecating on a resident’s lawn for the town of Fujiyoshida to declare a crisis.This small city at the base of Japan’s Mt. Fuji made international headlines earlier this

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