Overseas visitors to Kyoto’s newly opened Nintendo Museum don’t seem to be able to “read the air” as the Japanese say, and are breaking the house rules. A booming, highly incentivized influx of USD- and euro-packing tourists has been in local news more and more, as wannabe social media stars and sightseers shun local cultural sensitivity to gain engagement.
As recently reported by Cryptopolitan, Nintendo’s long-awaited Nintendo Museum just opened at the beginning of this month in Kyoto, Japan. However, there have been some problems reported with foreign visitors breaking the rules.
Visitors to the museum take prohibited photos, unplug exhibit controllers
Japanese outlet nintendoevery reports that overseas visitors are taking photos in prohibited areas and uploading them to social media. What’s more, incidents of people unplugging fixed cords to investigate whether or not games are running on emulators have been documented .
A Japanese user on X criticizes a post by a foreign visitor, where he struggles to unplug a controller with a fixed plug, on an exhibit at the museum.
As tensions run high globally about issues of immigration, economy, and tourism, local Japanese have been finding themselves unable to afford to travel in their own country. Hotel prices are skyrocketing, ostensibly due to hospitality services jacking up rates to capitalize on foreign-currency-toting gaijin able to afford the cost.
Tourists are now also encouraged to visit Japan via free domestic flights once in-country, and reports of similar problems around Mt. Fuji, involving destruction of property and illegal parking for the sake of taking photos, have also been reported.
Nintendoevery emphasizes (translated by Google): “In any case, anyone planning to visit the Nintendo Museum in the future should make sure to read the precautions and be aware of them the day before.”
A popular social media post of a photo taken in an area where photography is not allowed.
Nintendo controversy continues with fans criticizing lack of innovation
The urge to obnoxiously investigate emulators and break private museum property, versus Japan’s wonderful, but sometimes-suffocating “social harmony,” has resulted in a strange and problematic mix indeed, but that’s not Nintendo’s only problem.
People are also miffed about the Palworld lawsuit .
As Nintendo backs up The Pokémon Company in its legal suit against comedic human-farming game Palworld creator Pocketpair, longtime fans are disappointed in the corporate giant for trying to quash innovation to protect archaic “intellectual property” (IP).
Indeed, there’s a growing sense that more and more, Japanese gaming companies and other giants in the industry are relying on yesterday’s hits to milk fans for all they’re worth.
So, as the politicians try to turn us all against each other by force-separating and force-integrating us on our respective tax farms , complete with failing, rigged economies , and monolithic gaming giants of yesteryear exploit IP laws, perhaps it would do us all some good to be a little more kind to each other and have a little more common sense.
As one Japanese social media user noted : “Why would you try to pull out a plug that is completely fixed in place? If you can’t remove it even after applying a fair amount of force, don’t you understand that it’s designed to prevent it from coming out?”
