Does the question refer to a publicly-accessible picnic table for use of passersby? Or whether or not any private persons possess a picnic table on their estate?
My wife and I had an amusing exchange in some little town. We were all set to cook our lunch on the Coleman stove, and were looking for a town park with a suitable table. We stopped a guy on the street, and asked “Where can we find a picnic table?” He proceeded to explain to us directions to the farmhouse of a local handyman who makes picnic tables for people who want to buy one to put in their backyard.
Turkmenistan comes to mind as a candidate for a country with no user-accessible picnic tables. Turkmenistan has fewer foreign travelers than North Korea, and does not issue tourist visas at all. But that, of course, says nothing at all about the proclivities of Turkmen citizens to enjoy a picnic in their leisure time.
Turkmenistan does issue visas to tourists, but you might be able to make a semantic argument that they are not “tourist visas” per se but “visas” that can be issued to tourists. You are right, however, that Turkmenistan receives very few foreign tourists.
Terminus Est, that picture looks pretty fancy to this American’s eyes. While our picnic tables are also often set up under some sort of shade structure (we call such a structure a pavilion), it’s not usually incorporated into the design of the table itself. More typical is something like this, or this, with a fixed freestanding structure with a roof, and a few separate tables placed under it. The tables are usually at least somewhat movable, though they might be chained down to prevent them from moving too far.
See, I assumed the OP meant something like this, which is, more-or-less, the classic American picnic table as used in parks and other public places. Wooden or concrete with attached bench seating that requires you to lift your legs to sit at (rather than just sliding over from the end).
What Terminus Est shows above is just an outdoor table with separate bench seating. If that qualifies, then, yes, you can probably find that everywhere.
They issue Transit Visa to “tourists”, but last I checked, there is no such thing as a “Tourist Visa”. A transit visa is issued for the estimated duration of time necessary for the traveler to pass through the country, generally 2-3 days. Most are issued to people driving through with their own car.
However, Russians are great picknickers, and recreational travel stops are a way of life there. Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic, would no doubt be influenced by this culture, and I’d expect plenty of rest stops in the country, if only for their own people.
Northern climates are no bar to picknicking. In Newfoundland, where there is a steep fee for using provincial parks, there is a popular meme of camping out in gravel pits near the highway, which become quite crowded on holiday weekends.
I won’t say that there are no picnic tables in Japan, but I have certainly never seen any and using a blanket is a tradition for hanami, plus the Japanese traditionally sit on the floor, so overall it seems unlikely that they would have many of these, if at all.
There aren’t nearly enough opportunities to mention Art Price Jr. and his exploits. For once it’s actually approbate, nay, mandatory, to the conversation in which I usually bring it up.
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Down the Google Hole. Apparently, this is the standard Japanese picnic table. And this is how you write picnic table (not sure if that is meant to be Chinese of Japanese, but it must be tattooed on an attractive young woman.)
Certainly not. The barbie is indeed ubiquitous, but typical outdoor furniture (as used to eat barbecued food) is an actual table and actual chairs or (where space is tight or chilldren are numerous) a table with free-standing benches. In either case, an “outdoor setting”.
It wasn’t really a challenge, since I didn’t contend that there are zero picnic tables in Japan.
But I think it’s reasonable to distinguish between ‘exists’ and ‘common’. The Japanese aren’t blond, for example, but I’m sure that I could find a person with Japanese citizenship who is blond.
There are quite a few in Hyogo-ken, Japan. The local park near me has one, the park down by the beach has 4, the local arborium has a few. Traditional/historical garden/parks don’t usually have them though.
Fun factoid I read somewhere: eco groups don’t like picnic tables anymore because they attract large numbers of crows, who have become accustomed to equating picnic tables with food.
