flights and hotel prices and signs
everywhere but they are not necessarily
in English very crowded city some of the
regular tourists are actually avoiding
heat strokes littering smart Olympics
volunteer rent and everything goes up
after effects on the economy hey guys
and gals on ice Japanese it's Cathy cat
this time we're going to talk about ten
things we are worried about when the
Olympics come to Japan
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number one flights and hotel prices go
up and we don't know how much they're
gonna get up I mean the beginning of the
year it was kind of fun actually flights
were pretty cheap but we can't tell how
it's gonna be once the Olympics actually
start in Japan and hotels here in Japan
generally you do not pay per room you
pay per person which means if you
thought this is a good deal if you
however come with a friend or with a
partner it might be double the price
because you pay per person also be
careful about that when you book your
hotel so quite a lot of ways of staying
and coming here might change money-wise
so don't forget to get yourself a Japan
Rail Pass before you come to say if your
life self a little bit on the travel
inside of Japan yes Japan has a system
for everything a system for standing in
line and system in which line you're
supposed to stand in a system in which
area is supposed to walk there are s and
signs everywhere but they are not
necessarily in English and we are
worried about that some of the
instructions that are giving to people
on the different places might not be in
English or if they are there might not
be as easy to understand the general
worry is that the foreigners who come to
Japan for the first time might not be
able to understand some of the systems
that are here in place so I hope it will
be easy to understand but even with the
ticking booked ticket booking system I
went through that when I booked or tried
to book and didn't get them the tickets
for the Olympic Games that was kind of
also very complicated I found so yeah I
hope yeah called no so not such
complicated systems will be in place by
the time the Olympics are here Tokyo is
already a very very crowded city and it
will be a lot more crowded when the
Olympics come to Japan however the thing
we are worried about is there will be
foreigners who are not used to crowds
meaning they won't know what to deal
with when they get there
how to deal in that kind of environment
if you come here after a while you
realize how do you have to you have to
behave in a crowd and things like and on
that note and there might people who not
stand in line there might be people who
panic there might be people who push and
that's what you don't get usually so I
hope when we get those more crowds
people will be fine and we'll be able to
deal with it and it's just hope everyone
will be safe the people that generally
come to Japan seems to be not coming
which means some of the regular tourists
are actually avoiding the Olympics which
means you're gonna get a very different
crowd of foreigners coming in most of
the foreigners that we found here and
that we interviewed to you said they
said they on purpose are trying not to
come here during the Olympics cuz they
want to avoid the panics the crowds and
the people who are not aware of Japanese
culture so yeah it's not actually
attracting the usual tourists heat
strokes during 2018 we had a heat wave
right at the time when the Olympic Games
were supposed to be in it was so much
hotter than expected which means we
might get that again luckily we didn't
get that 2019 so this year we might be
safe but 2018 was incredibly hot even
like around 12 it was already way over
30 degrees with high humidity which
means athletes that are athletes are
from countries that don't have that
climate will struggle and guests who
will be sitting there they will not be
able to maybe cope with that hate the
director isn't a really good word today
they might not be able to cope with that
heat also the big Olympic Stadium in
Tokyo doesn't have air conditioning so
I'm worried all about people getting
heatstroke so it's probably gonna be
quite a lot of signs to raise awareness
to tell people do not get heat drugs
tried to drink a lot of water try to
keep your body cool but you know
everyone will listen to that so
hopefully everyone will be fine
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littering no saying isn't a happy voice
but it's really really not good
Tokyo doesn't have many trash cans and
that has been a recent problem because
with all the tapioca boo miss tourists
will drink the tapioca milites and then
don't know where to put them because
there are no trash cans so what will
happen is that they will actually just
throw them somewhere in the 100 points
and they will throw them somewhere like
in the area I'll just put them on a wall
and put them in places it's like in the
whole city will struggle with that
because there are not enough trash cans
you're supposed to carry that thing back
home not to your hotel or you're
supposed to how is the focus on is Vidya
the director you are supposed to at
least if you have trash carry it with
you all day or return it to the store
you got it from if you can't find it Ben
so how is that gonna be our people are
you gonna buy that are we gonna have a
really dirty Tokyo well I'm gonna find
out in the pretty month time this time
the theme is smart Olympics meaning not
spending too much time on the Olympics
but already quite a lot of money has
been spent a lot of money has actually
been spent and so money has been spent
on areas that didn't really need it
spending on and then it didn't work out
in the end so money has already been
spent in the wrong places however and
some areas money is not being spent
enough as what we can see online so how
is that gonna affect the actual Olympics
have things been safe that shouldn't
have been saved
like I mentioned this stadium the big
big Olympic Stadium does not have air
conditioning they're gonna try and get
like winded blow wind in somehow to keep
it cool but I'm not sure if that was
such a smart decision we will find out
though when the games are on and it's
really hot
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which leads to the next problem
volunteer exploitation quite a lot of
people have been asked to volunteer
during the Olympics and generally if you
have time and you want to do that it's
fine but it has almost been a little bit
expected and there's been a little bit
of pressure on certain people to do
things for free for the Olympics even
though they don't really have that time
they're actually too busy don't forget
in Japan being able to take a week of
work is a big deal so taking a week of
work but then having to help the
Olympics
that's your holiday for the whole year
you know getting that back there's been
quite a lot of people who have
criticized the way of it's just like
yeah yeah all of you come come volunteer
for us because you know we need we need
volunteers and that's a good thing if
you have people with the time we want to
do it but some people I kind of almost
pushed into doing it and it sounds a
little bit like they're making use of
free workers and also the schedule seems
to be really strict like eight hours of
work if this you have this gift this so
yeah exploitation is a big issue there I
hope there won't be so many bad stories
from the volunteers once the Olympics
come I hope they have a good time and
I'm are really very very grateful for
everyone who wants to volunteer but I
think expecting it so much and
exploiting the volunteers might be an
issue during that time with the Olympics
coming up certain areas of Tokyo getting
more and more popular for example the
area where I usually wear my fashion
Harajuku now the downside to that is
that certain areas now are getting so
popular with so many tourists that the
rent and everything goes up more and
more and more and more and the general
stores who actually used to represent
her suku they have to move out the whole
area on takács the street for example
that rent is so expensive but many of
the stores really has struggling making
do and in rent is going up more and more
and more because it's almost if like a
flax tip ship store you know it looks
pretty if you have a store on takács de
turk esta is the place everyone goes for
Turkish to hundreds and thousands of
people every day
so the rent goes up the actual
establishments that used to represent
hard Zook who struggle to stay and we're
losing a little bit of that culture that
used to be there and that's just an
example of Harajuku I'm sure there are
other places in Tokyo well the same
thing is happening and that's a real
shame you know when you want to come to
Japan you want to steal the real
Harajuku you don't want to have just
tourist drums shops because those ones
keep popping up so how is hard you could
gonna look and how has certain pods of
Tokyo gonna look after de Lyon thinks
like once you know things change again
well we're gonna get I don't know and
finally if the after effects on the
economy pretty much every country who
has the Olympics afterwards gets into a
big economical down how it took you're
gonna deal with it I mean they tried to
cover it with the smart Olympics but it
looks like they still had to spend a lot
more money than they thought they would
have to so how is the economy of Japan
of Tokyo looking after that we are gonna
find out once we get there I guess so
those are some of the things we are very
very worried about when the Olympics
come to Tokyo is there anything else you
would like to add that you're worried
about when the Olympics come let us know
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