Abstract
Gohei Kawabata is known for his efforts on town planning in Omihachiman. This study analyzes his thoughts on tourism. His reasons for denying tourism included town-building based on trend-oriented needs, the town being treated as an object of sight-seeing, and avoiding tourism becoming an end in itself. It also became clear that he considered the following to be the ideal types of tourism and the relationship between town planning and tourism: matching the object of sight-seeing with that of town planning, defining tourism based on the objective of town planning, and striving to achieve consistency between the objective and purpose of town planning and the type of tourists.
