Travel

Japan remains a stable and popular tourist destination. Currently, due to the weakened Japanese yen, the number of overseas visitors is rapidly increasing. Among the tourist destinations visited by tourists traveling to Japan, Kamakura is gradually gaining popularity. In May 2023, the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture announced that the number of visitors in 2022 was 11.96 million, an increase of approximately 182% compared to the previous year's 6.56 million. The number of tourists is recovering to levels before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the lifting of the entry ban for foreign tourists in October 2022, the number of tourists has further increased, and the negative impact of "over-tourism" (tourist pollution) on daily life has become a hot topic, leading to increasingly severe conditions for local residents.