Japan warns that the merger of villages and towns will disappear, but Hakuba will grow bigger and more prosperous
Is Japan going extinct?The Japan Times published a report in March 2019 titled "The End of the World." Hiroshi Masuda, the former head of Iwate Prefecture, a Japanese intelligence agency, also provided a series of materials, which sparked a wide range of heated discussions in Japanese society. In fact, in his 2014 book Endemic Extinction, a Japanese think tank, Kanji Masuda warned that "896 villages and towns in Japan will be forced to close due to depopulation, and by 2040, 1,800 cities and villages will be forcibly closed."
Although Japan entered a developed society at an early age, the "demographic advantage" of the early years has become today's "burden", and the root cause of this is the gap between childbirth and old age. According to recent figures released by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 2013, 8.2 million of the more than 60 million homes were idle, and by the end of 2018, that number had exceeded 10 million.
The worst situation occurred in Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Kyushu, where more than 11 percent of the inhabitants lived in abandoned houses;The proportion of abandoned houses in Kochi Prefecture, Tokyo is 106%, most of which are located in villages and towns, and high property taxes are also an important reason for young Japanese to abandon their old homes and go to urban development. Moreover, on the streets of Kanazawa City, Japan, you can often see empty streets, and in some places, you can't see a pedestrian for more than ten minutes.
In addition, Masuda also cites the example of Hakuba Village, which has grown to more than 9,000 residents in just 50 years with the development of tourism and the rural economy. Including migrant workers and investors, it is about 13,000. Hakuba Village is famous for its popularity in winter and summer, and it is said that 800,000 of Japan's 20 million visitors come to Hakuba Village.
Therefore, the development direction of Hakuba Village is "reverse"?In terms of scale, Baima Village has developed from a village at the beginning to an "international village" of 189 square kilometers, and a Beijinger who has opened a "family hotel" in Baima Village for three years said that he knows more than a dozen foreign investors from Germany, France, Switzerland, China, India, and Pakistan, not to mention those remote tourist resorts and ski resorts.
The "reverse" development of Baima Village is based on the premise of 2 months of snowfall and 11 cm of snowfall per year, and the most famous snow town in China has less than 2m of snow per year. Therefore, in the early part of the last century, the Swiss accidentally found Hakuba Village and named it the Japanese Alps, and today, the nine villages around Hakuba Village, as well as Omachi Castle, are all named Hakuba Village by tourists, and even the ** Mountain National Park established in 1934 has also been "replaced".
As the home of the Winter Olympics, Hakuba Village is naturally the best place to compete, so the Japanese government has been using Hakuba Village as the venue for the competition since 1936, and it was later canceled in World War II until Hakuba Village won the right to host the 18th Winter Olympics in 1998, and Hakuba's status in the Olympic Committee has also been greatly improved.
Now, Hakuba Village, the only village in the world, offers high-altitude skiing for all visitors, and for 30 yuan, you can climb two large platforms costing 8.5 billion yen (about 5 billion yuan) to experience the glory of the Olympic Movement and overlook more than 200 running tracks in Hakuba Village.
After arriving in Japan, Gu Ning booked a room at the Tujia Hotel, and in the rooms of the Tujia Hotel, it was written whether the hotel had a Chinese language, as well as breakfast and parking. And the most important point is that Hakuba Village, as a famous ski resort, is still a "vacuum zone" for Chinese tourism, at least not too much now.
It seems that I was right in Hakuba Village, Tujia, and this Dongshan resort, and there are more than 3,000 in total.
In late March, winter in Hakuba is coming to an end, but there are still plenty of people who come here to ski and buy a three-day (freestyle ski resort, around 600 yuan) at a hotel, while in China, similar ski resorts cost at least twice as much. However, the most surprising thing is that this hotel is actually designed according to the warm family style, not only refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, water dispensers and other household appliances, but also kitchenware and kitchenware, so that those who like to eat on the street can walk by themselves.
It is said that the Japanese-style alleys are narrow, but the guest rooms in Higashiyama are large and equipped with humidifiers and air purifiers. Take a closer look, I think this hotel is quite clean, after all, the owner's family is drinking water here with the guests, how can people not feel at ease with the clean air?
For a family or family, Hakuba also has a lot of individual houses to rent, just like their family's house, which can accommodate seven people to eat, but each person is less than two hundred yuan. The reason why Hakuba Village can "swim upstream" is because Japan lacks sufficient manpower and material resources on the one hand, and on the other hand, because the local tourism industry is very formal and cheap.
Tip: To get to Hakuba from central Tokyo, take the high-speed train to Nagano Station, then transfer to Hakuba and be picked up by a local host in a million-dollar limousine, or during peak travel periods, take a bus directly from Tokyo Airport to Hakuba.