A bowl of ramen costs 3，000 yen！ Prices rise in Hakuba Village in Nagano due to a surge in inbound tourists．．．Hotel prices also soar， confusing Japanese people and making it into the “second Niseko．”
0001Capital Region Tiger ★.Oct. 23, 2024 (Wed) 20:27:29.96ID:e5YslX6Z9
Big changes are currently taking place in Hakuba Village, Nagano, one of Japan’s leading snow resort areas. At the Tourist Information Center in front of JR Hakuba Station, “Hakuba Base Camp” is written in English in larger letters than the Japanese. This corner, filled with English words, feels like a foreign landscape. Furthermore, as you walk around the station, the signs in the shopping district are also full of Roman letters. Why is the whole village “Westernized”? When I asked the owner of “Uncle’s Shop,” a souvenir shop in front of the station, why, he said, “(In winter) it’s almost full of foreigners. “I can barely understand Japanese,” he replied. With the ski season fast approaching, Hakuba Village will be filled with foreign tourists. For the full text, see source. Last updated: 10/22 (Tue) 19:25.
The food stalls at the foot of the Tsugaike lift were definitely expensive. The restaurant in front of the bus stop had curry for about 3500 yen. Last year.
>>10 Since Australia has reversed summer and winter, ski lovers come to Japan. Also, China doesn’t get much snow (this was a concern for the Beijing Winter Olympics, but they got by with artificial snow), so skating is synonymous with Japan.
Even if we live in a world where inbound travel is no longer an option, I definitely don’t want subsidies or tax money to be poured into the tourism industry again, and there’s already less and less Japanese capital in the industry.
It’s fine. Suck money from inbound tourists as much as you can from a management perspective. And unlike in the past, Japanese people don’t really need to ski. I’d make money when I can, and prepare for when inbound tourists subside.
They probably don’t even bother with Japanese people anymore. From the store’s point of view, they don’t need poor customers who hesitate to pay 3000 yen, and in the meantime, foreigners keep paying.
I booked a hotel in Kyoto for November, but it’s 40,000 yen for a room only. I decided to pay it because I was worried that a foreigner would take it while I was hesitating.
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