Chinese tourists buy up Japan village's supplies

(china.org) Several thousand Chinese tourists bought up all the goods in a fishing village in Japan over the course of several hours, temporarily inconveniencing locals, recent reports say.

In early July, around 4,000 Chinese tourists on a cruise ship disembarked at a small fishing village in southeast Japan's Tottori Prefecture to go sightseeing. They bought up eye drops, cosmetic products, rice cookers, and other products in the village in the several hours during which they stayed there, causing a great deal of inconvenience to local residents, reports say.

The village is home to only 3,455 residents and has never received such a big tourist group before. 

Despite their preparations for the group, including putting up signs in Chinese and employing 50 interpreters, the villagers still found themselves unable to handle the crowd of tourists.

The Chinese cruise ship left Shanghai June 29 and was scheduled to visit Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture and South Korea's Busan, but it changed its itinerary due to the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea.

This is not the first time that Chinese tourists have bought mass quantities of goods in Japan. Much debate was aroused in China over the swarms of Chinese tourists that descended onto stores in Japan to buy high-tech toilet seats during the Chinese Lunar New Year in February.

A record 2.4 million Chinese traveled to Japan in 2014 and spent around 28.1 billion yuan (about US$4.53 billion), making China one of the largest contributors to tourism and related consumption in Japan.

Source: CRI by Zhang Lulu

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