Spatial Character of Tokyo’s Famous Tourist Attractions

Authors

  • Odilia Renaningtyas Manifesty Universitas Gadjah Mada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21776/ub.ruas.2019.017.01.1

Keywords:

urban tourism, spatial character, urban architecture

Abstract

Various competitiveness reports on tourism have ranked Japan as one of the most visited countries in Asia. Along with South Korea and Singapore, Japan offers many unique traits to the tourists. Since the establishment of “Kihinkai†(lit. Welcome Society), Japan’s first organization to engage with foreign tourists, the country has succeeded in developing various sector of tourism such as heritage sites, nature-based tourism, religious sites, and urban tourism. Tokyo Metropolis, as the capital of Japan, is one of the best examples in urban tourism sector. Hotel occupancy in Tokyo has risen around 80% in the last decade, showing high growth of tourism in the city. The aforementioned growth is supported by many factors, with one of them being the enhancement of tourist attractions. The paper examines Tokyo’s nine most famous tourist attractions specifically at their spatial aspects. The complexity of place, accessibility and the presence of surrounding amenities, as well as the ambience or atmosphere offered by the attractions are the components analyzed to form a set of characteristics that define the character of Tokyo’s tourist attractions. The compiled data can be a precedent study or preliminary guideline for other big cities in Japan or Asia to develop their potential of urban tourism.    

Author Biography

Odilia Renaningtyas Manifesty, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Lecturer at Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

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Published

2019-07-04

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Manifesty, O. R. (2019). Spatial Character of Tokyo’s Famous Tourist Attractions. RUAS, 17(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.21776/ub.ruas.2019.017.01.1

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2019)

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