Show Horizons Packages planned to help Japanese increase traditional tourism By MAYUMI TANAKA San Francisco Examiner i ' " ’ - wa TOKYO — Almost 10 million Japanese went overseas last year mostly to the United States With land prices soaring at home and the yen still powerful abroad many people have given up the dream of owning a home and are spend- ing their money on foreign travel California has been the traditional gateway to international travel for many Japanese with an estimated 800000 visiting the state this year ac-- cording to the state of California's office in i Tokyo Now California travel promoters here are looking for something new to woo affluent Japa-- £ ncse tourists who've already seen California once — £ and w ho want to step out of the traditional ' Japanese travel mode of package tour Japanese- language service famous landmarks and long bouts of shopping at the Chanel boutiques “Japanese still haven't fully enjoyed the out-- 1 door recreation and natural beauty that are available in California" said Toshiharu Nishika- travel guide “I want wa editor of a tourists learn take their time to to to Japanese enjoy nature instead of just sightseeing” Nishikawa is encouraging Japanese tourists to sign up for local tours — w hale watching off the Baja coast camping at Yosemite white-watrafting in the Grand Canyon — in the United States activities that are less expensive than the package tours offered by Japanese travel agen- - t best-selli- 1 1 er cies For some stressed-ou- t Japanese though it may " be adventuresome enough just to sit in a back-- ! yard lounge chair Z I Orlando Sentnel becue party in the garden or at the beach" said “Even a melon tastes different when you eat it looking at nature and feeling the dry w ind of California on your face” Abe said some Japanese still feel it's wasteful to stay in one place and do nothing But gradually the idea that relaxing is OK is taking hold especially among the young The largest market for travel agencies now is young women office workers who may travel abroad once or twice a y ear to dispel their frustration with the corporate society at home While short-terstudy tours in the United States are booming among students and “office ladies" many are content with just a taste of American university life "They are y earning to feel the free atmosphere there so different from Japanese schools with rules and uniforms" Abe said “Gulliver" a new travel magazine aimed at young affluent Japanese published a special edition last spring titled “The California That Nobody Knows" One article describes driving down the Baja Peninsula from San Diego imagining the “dreams of lawless Americans” taking note of the “abundant alcohol gambling passport forgers shops for travel clothing $12 whores and s dark seedy hotels: selling passage anything you need to cross the border" in Tijuana and in the desert a “cactus illusion” and heat that makes ‘food for the soul" “There is another California gloomy and 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