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What a commission cannot buy
We do not accept payment for placement. Comparison criteria are published on the methodology page, and every figure we cite — with its source, retrieval date and expiry — is listed on the sources page.
The clearest test of this is where we make nothing. A number of guides carry no affiliate link at all, because the only thing to buy is sold by the operator at the gate, allocated by a government ballot, or priced by a city:
- Kamikochi park-and-ride — the car park and the shuttle are sold at the gate
- Toyosu tuna auction lottery — free, allocated by ballot, and reselling a place is banned
- Himeji Castle admission — the city sells its own ticket, and that is the one to buy
- Nara Park deer rules — the only permitted food is the official cracker, whose proceeds fund deer protection
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