A Kyoto bottleneck reveals Japan's wider tourism challenges

Japan must design policies to handle consequences of record visitor numbers

International tourists crowd the streets of Kyoto, Japan, on March 10. (Photo by Atsushi Oka)

Benjamin Boas is a Tokyo-based cultural policy consultant and author of From Cool Japan to Your Japan.At Kyoto Station recently, I found myself in an odd queue: not waiting to board the Shinkansen, but waiting to leave the Shinkansen area.

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