Danica Davidson
May 12, 2025 
Thanks to everything from anime to its ancient culture, Japan is a country that attracts a lot of tourism. The Japan Tourism Agency likes this and wants to keep up the tourists coming, so it decided to survey foreign tourists as they were about to fly home from airports in Kansai, Fukuoka, Narita, Haneda, and New Chitose.
4,189 tourists took part in the survey, which was implemented between July and December 2024. While many people and places wanting to bring in tourists will concentrate on what people want to see, the Japan Tourism Agency also wanted to know what people didn’t like about their stay in the country. And the results were recently made public.
6.1% of people were distressed about finding free WiFi. 8.6% did not enjoy their experience going through immigration processing, mainly thinking that it took an excessive amount of time.
While there are many signs in Japan with both Japanese and other languages on them, 10.8% percent of tourists had difficulty reading their language on the signs. It could be that the print was too tiny, or that it wasn’t translated properly.
13.1% opined that the tourist attractions they went to were too jam-packed with people. 15.2% of people had difficulty communicating once they were in Japan, like with people working at their hotel.
Now we’re up to the top two things that tourists say bothered them about Japan. Coming in at 21.9%, tourists complained about the dearth of trash cans. It’s part of the culture in Japan for many people to not bring trash out on the streets, and to take any trash home to discard it there. So numerous tourists were unsure of what to do with their trash when they didn’t see any easy place to dispose of it.
Now we’ve reached the top thing tourists say troubled them in Japan. The majority answered this way, with 51 .1% saying the same thing. Can you guess?
The answer was simply “Nothing.” Nothing bothered them about Japan. Which certainly sounds like good news to the Japan Tourism Agency!
Source: SoraNews24
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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