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Overconcentration to Tokyo and Reduction of the local destination travel

2013-05-02 22:16:03 | opinion
Overconcentration to Tokyo and Reduction of the local destination travel

The travel to Tokyo has been increasing in a Japanese domestic travel.
On the other hand, the travel to local areas is decreasing.
Owing to the economy concentration to Tokyo, the population of local city is decreased and JR abolish line or decreace line, buss company abolish line or decreace line, and also a shopping center is decreaced, and finaly the town will be a gohst town.
This bad circle is continued every year.
Convenience stores are decreased in rural area.
If there is a convenience store in the town, the town is prosperous.
In Tokyo, lots of building are constructing, and increase in a number of JR, station extension, and expansion of the shopping center are performed.
About 20 years ago, overconcentration to Tokyo was not carried out so much yet, and the local city was also prosperous.
Priority of profits becomes strong after the collapse of the 'Japanese bubble economy', JR company decide cut local train,and discontinued the line, and withdrawal of a store. This chain is repeated repeatedly.
We have to stop the Tokyo concentration.

Continued to this tendency, local cities turn into ruins.
Furthermore, Japan joins in TPP, and if agriculture receives a damage, local city population will be decreased sharply further.

The country as my ideal is Germany.

In Germany, about 500,000 people's city is located in each state.
Agriculture is also prosperous and is carrying out a potato, a cabbage, and wine cultivation widely.
Concirning the German population, Berline is 3,500,000, Hamburg 1,800,000, Munich 1,400,000, and Cologne 1 million, the city of a 500,000 to 600,000 people class is crowding in many big city. The infrastructure investment of each city is also equivalent.
Germany is distributing population in each state, the whole country is prosperous.

If it overconcentrates on Tokyo, a superfluous infrastructure will be supplied to Tokyo, other city can not recieve necessary infrastructures. Then other citie's population will be decreased.
The infrastructure also decreases in many local cities, train and bus are not existing, it becomes impossible to go travel to local erea except a private car.
We have to stop overconcentration to Tokyo.
I would like to plan lots of local travel for the local city to be prosperous.