The Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko has erected a giant black net to block views of Mount Fuji, a reaction to the town’s huge popularity on Instagram and other social media platforms.
“It is regrettable that we had to take such measures,” a local official told CNN last month, when the town’s council decided to block the most popular Fuji views with a 66-foot-long (20-meter) black screen, which was erected on May 21.
The small town in Yamanashi prefecture has become the center of an international controversy in recent weeks. A specific viewpoint in Fujikawaguchiko, which is at the foot of Mount Fuji and near the starting point for one of the most-used trails up the mountain, became so popular with visitors that it was causing problems for locals.
Which they tell you about before you ever step on the trail, and tell you to take everything you bring in back out. It’s not hard in the slightest to put your garbage in your pack/pockets till you leave, but people are selfish, lazy fucks who can’t even do the minimum and respect the space.
Which is why they don’t have them in a lot of places. Because being there and full is worse than not having them at all, since people just keep throwing shit on the pile.
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They got rid of trashcans because of a terror incident and they saved a lot money by doing so (less workers).
Who wouldn’t pile their trash? Who knows where&when the next empty trashcan comes along in Japan.
So the fix is to have people changing them more often + even having more available, but that would require more work and money… blaming foreigners are just easier @
Mini rant Japan also has a lot of unnecessary packaging and the birds can be very aggressive when trash is exposed, which doesn’t help.
It has nothing to do with blaming foreigners, my local parks here in the US are all carry in/carry out parks with lots of signs posted stating as such, and it’s not a massive problem.
I’m absolutely going to blame lazy fucks who can’t hold onto a bit of trash long enough to get to a trashcan or who can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves. Blaming it on lack of trash cans merely offsets responsibility and ignores that park cams are a magnet for wildlife and lead to trash blowing out of them
So the fix is to clean up your own goddamned trash and take it with you when you leave.
Not a hard concept…
The concept isn’t hard I agree, but it’s clearly a on going problem so, have more options is more convenient and could solve the issue.
Long enough to get a trashcan? Well see that’s one of problems. A) finding one. B) an empty one.
I visited last year. The way they handle trash is just black magic. There are almost no bins on the street. Everything is in disposable packaging. Yet, there is absolutely no litter.
The craziest example was Asakusa. I was walking around for 30 mins.holding about 10 food wrappers in my hand. Eventually a nice merchant offered me a plastic bag to put it all in when I purchased a drink.
Yeah things can get bit tricky 😂 Especially when you buy a lot food & drinks. The average japanese person doesn’t buy a lot.
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Which all of us who live in Japan have no issue handling, including when we travel. This is a shit excuse.
Yeah Japanese are known to be the best tourists abroad. It something someone learns by their society/culture (though I see odd balls here and there)
Tourists are not going to learn over short term and some are pigs aure. By having more available transcans will improve the situation.
What’s your solution then? Just telling them?
I mean, littering is illegal basically everywhere. If there are no trashcans, just hold the thing until you get to one. At least during festivals and such, you will see people piling trash next to full trashcans as neatly as possible, to cover your other case. “Don’t litter” doesn’t sound like a huge ask. As stated in the article, many of these people aren’t even staying in town and I know that station has (or at least had every time I went there) trashcans on the train platform. Convenience stores also have trashcans in front of and/or in the store that customers are welcome to use.
Yeah You would think people had better manners.
Sadly only a few convenient store has them. And I haven’t seen any trashcans at stations for a long time.
If you are in Japan and up for a challenge. I’ll buy you an ice cream, then you have find transcan before it melts and creates a mess.
Convenience stores nearly all have trashcans in my experience. I guess maybe not a street vendor? But, in most cases, what you buy is going to come in some bag that you can use or, in the case of certain parks, will actually have trashcans. I do live in Japan, but rural northern Japan as of a few months ago.
Okay let me know when you come to Tokyo. I’ll buy an ice cream 😂