Berühmter Bambushain in Kyoto beschnitten, um Graffiti-Schnitzereien zu verhindern

Kind of sad to see this happen.

I visited my brother in law in Kami Katsura last week and went together to Okochi Sanso Garden in Arashiyama . Passing by the bamboo forest, a skinny westerner stood on a folding chair and posed with a bamboo stem. Then he took out a pair of scissors and started carving into it. Immediately a few people started berating him and one Japanese guy tried to pull him away from the stem. He started yelling at him, shouting „fuck off, yap!“ and became visibly aggressive towards the Japanese man and another woman. Such behavior is absolutely despicable and, unfortunately, an everyday occurrence. If no one tries to take control of the situation and simply looks the other way, nothing will change. But if new rules are introduced and tourists are punished, then everyone cries foul and accuses the citizens of xenophobia. Whichever way you look at it, it’s wrong. That things can also turn out differently, to the detriment of the tourist, was demonstrated in Uji, where three Spanish visitors were having a picnic on the steps in front of a house and left all the trash behind. The owner dragged one of them into the street and slapped another. I don’t know if the police were involved. In any case, more and more residents are no longer willing to tolerate such behavior.