On a walk through the woods near my house nearly every large tree has names or initials carved into it. I even found a swastika on one.
Disgusting and depressing. Humans can be so disgusting sometimes.
I think we all make impulsive poor choices sometimes. It really sucks, though, when that impulsive poor choice is permanent and publicly visible.
Same with tourists defacing and stealing bones from the Paris catacombs.
When we visited several years back they had to have guides trailing in the dark watching everyone to ensure tourists didn’t smash or steal or carve their initials into the old bones. We saw quite a bit of (what looked like) recent damage and defacing.
People who feel the need to vandalise stuff just for fun need significant consequences. I think reciprocity would work well. Carved your name on something? This is going to hurt. Kicked and broke a femur? Oh dear.
Why do people have to be shit?
Per Wikipedia:
Prior to 2015, there was a charge to access the forest.[2]
Maybe reinstate the entry fee?
According to a different source (german) I found, they plan to restrict access at certain times, cordon off some areas, and provide more active staff.
This is the way. Kyoto is incredibly rich and can easily afford to protect itself.
Doesn’t bamboo grow like insanely fast
Insanely
straight to jail
I’ve been there - it’s a small theme park made for tourists and it’s absolutely packed unless you go really early. It’s a shame that tourists act shit but it’s a basic probability if you allow such masses of people without seriously investing into infrastructure and protections.
There really isn’t anything exception about this issue and the rise of “tourists bad in Japan” is making me really think about alt-right propaganda machine kicking into gear in Japan.
Take them one stop further to Hozukyō and throw them into the gorge.
Wait, what?
I suspect there must be an additional missing background information here, as the bamboo-knife-carving really is oddly specific somehow…It’s people carving shit on the surface of a plant. This shouldn’t have to be a conspiracy theory level mystery. People are fuck heads and that’s all it is.
