Might be off topic but I live to think about how well Japan has leveraged tourism. Eight years ago Japanese tourism was near 100% domestic. Japanese would visit mountains, onsen, and rural family. The idea that foreigners might be interested seemed absurd.

Yet around the time of the great earthquake the Abe government say tourism as a possible plug for the massive negative current account balance. The shutdown of nuclear reactors left Japan importing vast volumes of fossil fuels. Tourism leveraged existing capital, the hotels shrines and transport networks japan has always had, while bringing foreign money.

Since then Japan has been signing visa free travel treaties with every non-hostile nation imaginable. As a side effect the Japanese passport is now the most "powerful" passport in the world.

Tokyo and Osaka can handle the foreign hordes no problem, but Kyoto has could not. It is as if Japan has sacrificed the old capital to supply the rest of the nation with fuel.

The government is still playing a 40% increase over the next many years. It will be interesting to see how Kyoto manages, and if other tourist destinations can arise.