Hmm, not sure what I think of this one. If it's flash photography that's the problem Japanese tourists are at least equally unaware of how to turn off their damn flash as "foreign tourists" Should be all tourists or none as far as I'm concerned.
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What kind of person brothers a hard working guy at a dock? Hell, I really want to go down there but not at the expense of a group of hard working people.
Create a special "showcase" area for tourists. Retired fishmongers would volunteer to guide people through the special area. An admission fee could be charged. Build a cute fish-themed train that tourists could ride through the special area. The cars could be designed in the shape of nigirizushi. Tourists could have their pictures taken while seated in the anago carriage, or put on a big shrimp head costume in the ebi-car. The train's whistle would sound like dolphins. At the end of the tour, tourists could try free whale meat.
LOL someone's angling (get it? get it? nudge nudge) for a job with the new Japan Tourism Bureau!
You're fishing for comments.
This actually is insulting to non-Japanese, once again. All tourists will be banned, but the blame falls on foreigners. Japanese from all over the country also go to Tsukiji. But I guess Japanese never snap flash photos – with their cellphones and the variety of snapshot sounds - that alone would drive someone crazy. Japanese also do not get in the way of the fishmongers.
With a communication culture that favors indirectness over directness, the ease in which Metro officials spouted off the foreigners-are-creating-problems angle smells fishy to me. Smacks of scapegoatism.
It just seems that the government of Japan is a little lazy to find real reasons and solutions to problem like these way too often. They would rather play on what works.
`The Japanese would never do anything wrong so it must be those damn gaijin making trouble.`
Conclusion: the place is a functioning business. Therefore, unless an area for tourists is specifically designated and manned, no tourists at all should be allowed. I think at Debito, the point was made that it is the same as walking onto the floor of an automobile production line. I assume auto factories provide guided tours. Tsukiji could do that. Seems it's time to formalize the rules.