Japan's beautiful, traditional inns are lying empty as tourists kept out over Covid fears

🇯🇵 Kyoto enjoyed its brief respite from over-tourism, but with shops shuttering and hotels struggling, local businesses are begging to bring back visitors

Hanami-koji Street in Gion, a well-known travel destination for traditional geisha culture in Japan which now mostly lies empty due to Covid restrictions Gazing disconsolately at a £6,000 Japanese cedar bathtub is the svelte figure of kimono-clad general manager Taisuke Yajima.

This particular century-old machiya, once a genteel geisha-totting eatery, is now a bantam-sized luxury hotel. But its survival is in question. Such strict border controls are approved of by a mainly elderly electorate and citizens who still deliver a stink-eye to those who remove their mask in the street.

Now it hosts just a handful. Staycations, unlike in other regions of the planet, did not take up the slack during the pandemic.

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