The subway systems in Japan’s major cities are very convenient for getting around. Sometimes, however, you just wanna hail a ride back to your hotel. Fortunately, various Japan taxi services now make it easier not only to get a ride but even communicate with your driver.
Want to travel Japan in style? JR Tokai announced it'll be adding more luxury options to its Tokaido line between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka. On top of full private rooms coming in 2026, it says it'll introduce six "half-private" seats on some Tokaido trains in 2027 (pricing TBD).
https://unseen-japan.com/tokaido-shinkansen-semi-private-seats/
@Black_Flag@syzito.xyzAmerica has an interesting tourism policy: arrest the tourists.
They do it because ICE are staffed by private companies who get paid to arrest people. (Essentially they are bounty hunters.)
Forget justice. It's not part of the system.
BOYCOTT THE USA.
@dbattistella@todon.euThere goes America's #tourism industry!
Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian from Vancouver, was imprisoned by #US border officials for 12 days.
She was arrested by #ICE as she crossed the border from Mexico at the San Diego border, sending her and her family into an #immigration system rarely seen from the inside by #Canadians.
“Next thing you know, I’m taken. And for two weeks, I haven’t been told anything. Moved in different cells. Sleeping on cement, sleeping in different jail cells.”
“No one deserves to go through that, what I witnessed,” Mooney said, adding that women from all over the world were there, all with different backgrounds and different stories.
Love books? Looking for a place to hang out in Tokyo that's quiet and puts your book-loving heart at ease? Good news: book cafes in Tokyo are the new black (coffee). Here are a few of our favorites in great neighborhoods with unique concepts.
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Vulturul Negru - Black Eagle Palace in Oradea at Sunset
Traveling with kids can create a wonderful experience for your children. However, it can also leave you feeling like you have no time for yourself. A new daytime childcare service aims to help parents visiting Japan bring some balance to their time in Tokyo.
https://unseen-japan.com/tokyo-new-childcare-service-tourists/
Go to any “tourist-y” location in Tokyo these days and, depending on the day and time, you’re bound to find yourself stuck in pedestrian traffic jams and long cafe lines. That’s not true, however, of a relatively new tourist trap located near the Toyosu fish market.
https://unseen-japan.com/senkyaku-banrai-toyosu-few-foreigners/
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An incident involving Japanese travelers in China shows that tourist idiocy is universal. It came out this week that a Japanese man and woman were arrested - and subsequently deported - in January after he pulled down his trousers at the Great Wall while she recorded it.
https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-tourists-great-wall-arrested/
The village of Shirakawa has long been a worldwide tourist attraction. It’s gotten even busier as Japan prepares to welcome 40 million tourists in 2025. In response, the tiny village says it’ll greatly increase parking fees starting in October.
https://unseen-japan.com/shirakawa-parking-rates-overtourism/
National Park privatisation by stealth?
Luxury lodges and raised boardwalks developments?
"The primary purpose of national parks is to conserve nature and cultural heritage. A secondary purpose is for people to engage with and enjoy nature...Tourism development in protected areas, however, needs a social license and local community engagement is an important sustainability principle...National parks belong to everyone and their management must reflect this. While tourism developments can offer benefits, they must not come at the cost of accessibility, affordability, or most importantly, environmental integrity."
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https://theconversation.com/luxury-hiking-developments-look-picture-perfect-but-could-stop-everyday-australians-from-accessing-national-parks-250626
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Want to take your next Japan trip to the next level? TIME Magazine just announced its 100 great places to visit around the world - and four spots in Japan made the list. Check out their picks, as well as some of our past Japan travel recs, in our latest.
@Crispius@infosec.exchangeInstead of being detained in an #ICE run concentration camp, why not #ComeAndSeeCanada instead?
“Just north of a Canadian national park famous for its blue waters sits Jasper National Park — the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. Much like its neighbor, Jasper is home to pristine blue lakes and an unimaginable number of hiking trails, which has turned it into an iconic destination for all sorts of outdoor enthusiasts. It also happens to be the second largest Dark Sky Preserve in the entire world, granting otherworldly views of the night sky that you can't find in many other places.”
“Last month, the number of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—representing the majority of Canadians who visit—dropped by 23% compared to February 2024, … while Canadian air travel to the U.S. was down by 2.4% over the same period.
… a sustained decline of more than 20% in Canadian visitors would translate to more than $4 billion in losses to the U.S. economy in 2025.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/03/10/canada-travel-boycott-4-billion-loss/
Traveling to Tokyo? Need a break from your kids? Traveling with young ones can be stressful and exhausting - which is why a new service in Yurakucho, ANO NE Kids Club, is giving children a chance to play in a kid-friendly two-floor space while their parents see the sights.
@QasimRashid Meanwhile #ICE detains even #tourists from Europe, I wait for travel warnings against the USA by foreign embassies!
Only some cases:
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/german-tourists-detained-otay-mesa-detention-center/3770608/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/ice-german-tourist-detained-immigration
The village of Shirakawa, home to tourist draw Shirakawa-go, will hike parking rates to help it manage traffic. In October, parking for cars near Shirakawa-go will go from 1K to 2K yen (USD $13.50), with tour bus charges going from 3K yen all the way up to 10K yen ($67).
https://unseen-japan.com/shirakawa-parking-rates-overtourism/
Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks
"This paper studies how the relations between nature and society are constructed in disaster governance frameworks. Dominant disaster governance frameworks present nature and society as separate realms, and the organisation of society is increasingly seen as the key cause of hazards and disasters. Disaster impacts are similarly framed around adverse societal consequences, while other-than-human nature is merely the background across which disasters unfold, as property lost, or a means of disaster governance. Although the centrality of human impacts is troubled when biodiversity or a disaster flagship species is threatened, neither situation challenges the nature–society dualism embedded in dominant disaster governance frameworks. The attention and resources of disaster governance target the societal side of nature–society dualism. This study finds, though, that in peripheries characterised by remoteness from centres of power, a sparse human population, and large spaces of other-than-human nature, the vulnerabilities facing humans and other-than-human nature risk being ungoverned."
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Meriläinen, E. (2025). Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks. Disasters, 49(2), e12678. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12678
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