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But worse than that, residents had started to complain about their city. Tourists were often loud and disrespectful, and there were too many of them. Kyoto didn't want to go back to that after the ...

TOKYO, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Kyoto City in western Japan unveiled a plan to raise the ceiling of its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations to 10,000 yen (about 64 U.S.