Japanese tourists take UK field trips
An increasing number of Japanese tourists are travelling to the UK – to sit in fields.
Miki Travel has launched a new tour offering visits to Britain’s bright yellow rapeseed fields.
According to the UK’s Daily Telegraph, the tours were launched after guides noticed coach tour passengers flocking to the windows to photograph the fields. To capitalise on this interest, Miki has opened a new tour to East Lodge Farm on the Gloucestershire-Worcestershire border in the west of England.
“We normally stop at castles and old towns and villages. This is the only field we have stopped at and it is a nice change. It has been very popular – a beautiful sight,” the newspaper reported tourist Junko Daimon as saying.
Miki is planning 20 farm visits this summer, rising to 70 in 2013.