Originally Posted by
Aventine
They know and don't care. I mean, it's the older gentlemen that paid good money to stay in the suites and do as they pleased with smoking. Other guests just have to suffer or don't stay there.
You're probably allergic to all the pollen in the air. Hayfever is common this time of year.
I don't doubt that, we've been to Fukuoka twice now. I think we'll take a break for a while there's plenty more places and Hyatt continues to open new hotels.
Originally Posted by
OsakaWino
The main spring pollen is cedar. After all the old growth timber had been cut fro the mountainsides 50+ years ago someone got the great idea of planting Japanese cedar everywhere because it grows fast and would replenish the timber. Unfortunately mature Japanese cedar gives off an abundance of pollen, and now about 25% of the population is allergic to it, which is why you see so many people with face masks this time of year.
That's what my research seemed to say as well - and it's not likely I was tested for it in the USA. I have a small Maple allergy but not enough to bug me, Ragweed is really bad though - that's a later summer / fall thing here in the States.
Once I stopped going to gardens and on all my allergy meds I was OK.