The Kyoto Travel Congestion Forecast online site predicts which tourist attractions in the Japanese city are likely to be the busiest in a bid to spread visitors more evenly among its hotspots.

Masataka Hosoo is the 12th-generation head of his family’s bespoke textile-and-kimono house, HOSOO.His home is the traditional artisanal capital of Japan, Kyoto, and as a local whose family goes ...