{"id":62430,"date":"2024-03-08T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/08\/kyoto-geisha-district-tourist-ban-gion"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T04:26:57","slug":"kyoto-bans-tourists-from-parts-of-geisha-district-amid-reports-of-bad-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62430","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto bans tourists from parts of geisha district amid reports of bad behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gion residents asked city council to crack down after rise in tourist numbers leads to increased harassment of traditional entertainers<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2005\/dec\/06\/japan.gender\">geisha<\/a> district of Gion \u2013 one of Kyoto\u2019s most popular sightseeing spots \u2013 will be banned from entering its picturesque alleyways as authorities in Japan attempt to tackle a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/03\/a-free-for-all-japan-divided-as-return-of-tourists-brings-instagrammers-and-litter\">dramatic rise in tourism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan\u2019<\/a>s ancient capital have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/02\/covid-robbed-kyoto-of-foreign-tourists\">struggled to reconcile<\/a> the financial boost from a return to pre-pandemic visitor numbers with overcrowding and incidents of bad behaviour among tourists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/08\/kyoto-geisha-district-tourist-ban-gion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gion residents asked city council to crack down after rise in tourist numbers leads to increased harassment of traditional entertainersVisitors to the geisha district of Gion \u2013 one of Kyoto\u2019s most popular sightseeing spots \u2013 will be banned from enterin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62431,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430\/revisions\/62431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}