Tourism Industry
Most of the capital coming into the area comes from the tourism industry. Approximately 100,000,000,000 yen is spent by 9,000,000 sightseers every year. The main attractions of the area include:
- Mount Fuji
- Onsens
- Fujikyu Highland - an amusement park featuring one of the world's highest roller coasters.
- The lakes - sightseeing, sailing, and fishing.
- Hiking and mountain climbing.
- Village of Healing (いやしの里 iyashinosato)- a historically accurate, rebuilt Japanese village.
Read more about this topic: Fuji Five Lakes
Famous quotes containing the words tourism and/or industry:
“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)
“For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.”
—Ralph Nader (b. 1934)