An elderly woman pushes a walking aid as she walks on a street at Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, in Tokyo in this January 14, 2015 file photo. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People holding umbrellas wait in a queue to buy goods in Tokyo, Japan September 8, 2015. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A businessman crosses a road at Tokyo's business district October 1, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A worker of Japan Post Co collects postal items from a post box outside a post office in Tokyo, Japan, November 2, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People line up to buy tickets for the Year-end Jumbo Lottery in a shopping district in Tokyo, November 26, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman carries a Pomeranian dog on a sunny autumn day in Tokyo, November 27, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A couple walk in the garden of the Hikawa shrine during their traditional Shinto wedding ceremony in Tokyo December 1, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man takes a photo beneath yellow ginkgo leaves in Tokyo, Japan, December 1, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man walks past Christmas illumination outside a karaoke bar in central Tokyo, Japan, December 1, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





An employee shouts slogans outside a Pachinko slot machine parlour to attract customers in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo November 30, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





An employee dances outside a Pachinko slot machine parlour to attract customers in central Tokyo November 30, 2015. Japanese wages rose for the fourth straight month in October on an annual and inflation-adjusted basis, data showed on December 4, 2015, offering some hope a gradual increase in household income will underpin private consumption. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man takes pictures of trees in autumn colours in a park in Tokyo December 4, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man reads a newspaper as he sits underneath trees in autumn colours in a park in Tokyo December 4, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman plays basketball on a sunny autumn day in a park in Tokyo December 4, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A taxi driver smokes in a taxi pool at a business district in Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A worker climbs a power pole in Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2015. Japan's government hopes that raising the minimum wage will 'trickle up' into a broader rise in pay and consumption, but the smaller businesses who account for most Japanese jobs are in no shape to square that virtuous circle. Picture taken December 8, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Workers climb a tree to decorate it with Christmas lights at a park in Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man pushes a cart loaded with his belongings outside the Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo in this November 26, 2012 file photo. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)





People crowd Ameyoko market as they shop for food and goods for the upcoming New Year holidays in Tokyo, Japan, December 30, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A vendor advertises bags for sale as people crowd Ameyoko market to shop for food and goods ahead of the New Year holidays in Tokyo, Japan, December 30, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A police officer directs the crowd as people shop for food and goods at Ameyoko market ahead of the New Year holidays in Tokyo, Japan, December 30, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A dog wearing sunglasses and a hat in the colours of the Union Jack sits on a bike that a man pushes across a street in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman reads an "Ema", a wooden plaque with people's wishes or prayers, during New Year celebrations at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2015. The monkeys on the back of the plaque stand for the zodiac sign for 2016, according to the Chinese calendar. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A shrine security official takes off his hat as workers fix decorations ahead of New Year celebrations at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man cleans the floor of a prayer hall after a Shinto New Year ritual at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman in a kimono arrives at the main shrine for prayers ahead of the New Year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Shinto priests walk to the main shrine for a ritual to usher in the New Year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People wait at the gate of the Shinto Meiji Shrine to pray on the first day of the new year in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People pray on the first day of the new year at the Shinto Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman arrives at the Shinto Meiji Shrine to pray on the first day of the new year in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man holds Hamaya arrows, sold on New Year at the shrine as good-luck charms at the Shinto Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Tourists walk through the famous Sagano Bamboo Forest on September 6, 2015 in Kyoto, Japan. The famous city of Kyoto is going through a massive tourism boom. It recently won the title of World's Best City 2015, for the second consecutive year, in the consumer travel magazine Travel+Leisure, World's Best Awards. The total number of visitors to the city continues to climb year on year and the city has set a goal of achieving 3 million foreign tourists, equating to a tourist spend of 1 trillion yen (approx. $12 billion USD) by the time the Olympics arrive in 2020. However, such a surge in tourist numbers does not come without problems and recently, Kyoto city released two etiquette manuals to help tourists behave respectfully. The manuals, one for ' How to use a toilet' and the Akimahen (Don'ts of Kyoto) use cartoons and emoji's to explain 18 rules of correct tourist behavior, some of which include, where to smoke, when to take your shoes off, where and when you are able to take photographs and how to act appropriately at temples and shrines. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)