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Lack of parking in Tokyo’s shopping districts a headache for Chinese tour buses and residents
Buses for Chinese tourists park in one of the streets in Tokyo's glitzy Ginza shopping district last month. | KYODO
KYODO – Stores love them, but the patience of residents is wearing thin. Complaints have been pouring in about tour buses parking where they shouldn’t in Tokyo’s most popular shopping districts.
Police ticket the buses sometimes, but mostly they just field complaints from locals and motorists.
A surge in foreign tourists has brought massive dividends for stores where Chinese tourists splurge and head for the airport lugging rice cookers and hair care products. The problem is, there is nowhere for the buses to park in the parts of Tokyo the shoppers want to visit.
One day in early January, eight stationary tour buses were seen occupying the left-hand lane of a four-lane road on a main street in the upscale Ginza shopping district.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/11/national/lack-parking-tokyos-shopping-districts-headache-chinese-tour-buses-residents/#.VrzVD08s_Mo
