By YOKO HIBINO/ Staff Writer
November 7, 2025 at 16:40 JST
A city government employee wraps red tape around the bamboo stalks that sit within reach of tourists at the Chikurin no Komichi bamboo grove trail in Kyoto's Arashiyama district on Nov. 6. (Yoshiaki Arai)
KYOTO—The city government here is experimenting with how to stop tourists from carving graffiti into the Chikurin no Komichi bamboo grove by cutting it out of reach. [Read More]
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