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Miyajima | Japan To Impose A Tourist Tax

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TOKOYO: Visiting a bucket list destination is getting slightly more expensive as the Japanese island of Miyajima has voted to charge tourists more money to visit.

The island, also known as Itsukushima, is a short ferry ride away from Hiroshima and a popular day trip site for visitors to the area.

It is known for its orange torii gate, a popular photo spot due to the fact that it appears semi-sunken at high tide, and for the 12th-century Itsukushima Shrine.

Taro Matsumoto is the newly elected mayor of Hatsukaichi city, which is in Hiroshima prefecture. He ran on a successful campaign issue of a tourist tax.

At a press conference, Matsumoto told reporters that “it is necessary to secure new financial resources in order to continuously maintain quality of the Island as a tourist spot,” and that he hopes the tax will be implemented by spring of 2021.

There are three possible methods for imposing and collecting the tax: charging each visitor traveling by ferry, increasing the tax for the ferry operators or charging tax to directly to the visitors when they use facilities on the island.

Japan is currently in an interesting state of flux. Foreign tourism has skyrocketed ahead of Tokyo’s hosting of the Olympic Games in 2020, while the population is both aging and urbanizing, leaving more rural areas of the country struggling to catch up.

Miyajima is not exempt — the island has an issue of aging population and faces a tax revenue shortfall.

As of 2015, there were 1,674 residents living on the island, which is about 1,000 fewer people than ten years ago.

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