Tourism body takes wheelchair athlete on Oita barrier-free facilities tour

Officials from the government-backed tourism body toured Oita Prefecture on Sunday to study local barrier-free facilities, as the government is looking to attract tourists with disabilities ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.Officials from the Japan National Tourism Organization visited the prefecture in the southwestern island of Kyushu with South African Pieter du Preez, who went on to win the T51 classification in Sunday's Oita International Wheelchair Marathon.Preez traveled by lift-equipped bus and took a dip in one of the famous hot springs in the city of Beppu that was …READ FULL ARTICLE