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KYOTO, JAPAN – APR. 28: The government began a 12-day public opening of the Kyoto State Guest House on Thursday as a trial run before year-round access begins in July. The government is opening up the Japanese-style facility used to accommodate heads of states, prime ministers and other guests from foreign countries in a bid to help boost tourism at a time when the number of foreign visitors to the country is increasing. Visitors can enter using tickets provided at the facility for free on a first-come-first-served basis, without any prior reservation, and tour four of the guesthouse's rooms and part of its garden. When distribution of the first set of tickets began at 9 a.m., around 400 people were in a queue at the entrance gate. The guesthouse established in 2005 had previously been open to visitors only for a limited period of around 10 days a year.