Sightseeing venues and other tourism businesses are expanding preparations for tours that cater to people with physical disabilities and elderly people ahead of the Summer Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020.
"I was able to visit places I have wanted to see," a woman in her 70s from Thailand said at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto late last year. The woman uses a wheelchair.
"There were few gravel paths or differences in level in the course, so it was helpful," said a Japanese tour guide attending to the Thai woman.