京都観光は安全だよ！
While the crisis continues to unfold in Tohoku in northeast Japan, the rest of Japan remains much as it always has been.
Images of Japan have of course been of the disaster and now recovery effort.
The recent announcement that the nuclear crisis on the coast of Fukushima has been raised to level 7 does not inspire confidence in Tokyo Power.
However, at the risk of sounding like George W. Bush following 9/11, Japan needs a strong economy in order to rebuild.
Part of that income comes in the form of tourist dollars, euros, won, etc.
And there is actually no better time to come than now.
A few
factoids:
Kyoto is
521 kilometers (324 miles) from Fukushima City, and a bit further to the actual power plants
Prevailing winds blow out to the Pacific (away from Kyoto and Tokyo)
0.0041:
Level of Radiation (Average range: 0.033-0.087) on April 13, according to the Ministry of Education
22: Number of murders in Kyoto in 2009
306: Number of murders in Philadelphia with the same population of 1.5 million
17: Number of
World Heritage Sites
7: Number of
3-star Michelin guide restaurants (Kyoto has the third most stars of any city in the world, following Tokyo and Paris)
Hotels are begging for guests, temples are seeing light traffic, and spring has arrived.
There are no shortages, and everything is working as it always has.
Kiyomizu Temple - pictured at right - awaits.
京都へよこそう！Welcome to Kyoto.
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