During cherry blossom season this year, I finally heard the line that I had been half expecting for months. A Tokyo-ite in her early fifties telling an Australian couple in their thirties visiting Japan for the first time not to bother with Kyoto at this time of year.
Did she really mean Kyoto was skippable? Hard to tell. In her heart, of course not; but based on what she has seen on TV and heard from her pals in Kyoto itself, it makes sense. She helpfully suggested other, less crowded places while invoking stories of vista-ruining, matcha-ice-cream-slurping foreign masses spoiling the ancient capital. Overtourism, she concluded sadly, has caught Japan by surprise.
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