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Chinese tourists shun Japan over lunar new year holiday as rift deepens

  • February 17, 2026

Chinese tourists shun Japan over lunar new year holiday as rift deepens

by Jonnyboo234

30 comments

  1. No surprise there, the Chinese government has a huge influence over the life and activities of Chinese citizens. However, the Japanese were complaining about overtourism anyway. So that might be a rare win win, like a mutually agreed upon divorce.

  2. As an recent Australian tourist with my young family. Thanks for having us. Your country is beautiful and amazing.

  3. That’s to be expected when the government cancels huge amounts of flights into Japan and creates a propaganda campaign about “a surge in crimes targeting Chinese citizens”.

  6. PSA: do not come to Japan with connecting flight from China. My cousin connecting flight from China got canceled abruptly without any solution, her only option back then is to book flight to Taipei and go to Japan from there which she did. Even if you need to pay a little bit more you do that, save you the trouble and headache like my cousin had

  12. My flight going back to Japan from SEA in the spring and going out to the EU in the summer has been cancelled. Fxxx Takaichi.

  13. Didn’t Japan recently announce higher tourism rates despite cancellations by the Chinese?

    I guess when one door closes, another opens. For some countries, the dearth of Chinese tourists could actually be seen as a boon, since it means the place is now less crowded, in turn spurring more business from other places.

    I don’t think anyone is shedding any tears over this current situation.

  14. I swear I was just reading that flights from China to Japan were being canceled frequently. Isn’t this just highlighting an effect to an obvious cause.

    In other news, stepping in water makes your shoes wet.

  15. why are people so gung ho about.. wtf is this comment section. Some people are so weird about the Chinese. Is it some “小中華” complex? But I guess there’s a reason Kamiya and his band of idiots got 15 seats last Week.

  21. When I was in Japan last July, my wife and I joked that we heard more Chinese than Japanese.

    We just got back from visiting again and it was a completely different story.  Very few Chinese tourists, but quite a lot of Korean and Western.

  25. Time to travel to Japan then. It’s going to be a blessing without all the loud noises ans rude people cutting lines.

  27. I’m in Kyoto right now and it seems like there are Korean and Chinese tourists everywhere. Everyone seems to be getting along great with the locals.

    Btw Japanese strawberries are amazing.

  30. I visit Japan about twice a year for 2-3 week stretches and am currently back in Tokyo for my third and final week. This is by far the least amount of Chinese tourists i’ve ever seen in the ~10 years that i’ve been visiting my favorite country. Kyoto and Osaka were usually dominated by Chinese tourists but wow, I saw a lot more Indonesians as well as Taiwanese+Cantonese+Korean being spoken vs Mandarin. And yes I understand mainlanders from a regions also speak Cantonese but that is rather rare.

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