The problem is no one wants to believe they're the problem.

I'm not sure what it is about Kyoto, but it definitely has a greater share of poorly-behaved English-speaking tourists than other places I've been to in Japan. It's probably partially that so many tourists there seem to be in large groups (class trips, adult tour groups), which makes it easier to feel like you're in a traveling bubble of your own culture, not somebody else's. As both a westerner and someone who's used to tourists in my own hometown (New York), *I* get annoyed at a lot of the western tourists in Kyoto and how they behave. So I can only imagine what the residents there must think.