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Geisha sighting
There isn't much to say about today, we spent half the day on a train going from Takayama to Nagoya, then transferred briefly to a Shinkansen going to Kyoto.
After checking in and getting some lunch we wandered around a shopping arcade, before going back to the hotel to rest before dinner.
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Kyoto Castles and Jamming under the Bridge
We rolled into Kyoto on the Willers bus around 7am...feeling reasonably ok, for a 9 hour trip siting upright. Breakfast (I am terribly ashamed to say) was a quick bite at Maccas and then we dropped our gear off at the Kyoto Hana Hostel/Ryokan.
This place was awesome- really friendly...only 10 minutes walk from the train station and not …
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Geisha...
We called in at Himeji on our way to Kyoto, as it is home to Japan's most impressive castle. We only just got there in time though as the last admissions were at 4pm - I kept forgetting that we were still in off season. It worked out fine though as we ...
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Sakura...
... very briefly. Gion is the place where most of the geishas can be found, especially in and around a tiny, narrow old street called Pontocho, and I walked up and down it a couple of times. It was quite eerie wandering around some of the old streets as ...
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Kyoto 2nd day
... , we had a little stroll and randomly ended up in the place I'd wanted to go all day! A little tiny, gorgeous street called Pontocho. It is a tiny little back street that runs for about half a mile, and is famed as being the most beautiful and most ...
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Further Adventures of a Canadian in Kyoto
... back out to Gion for a night of window shopping and searching for souvenirs. The Gion shopping district is famous for Pontocho alley, where souvenir shops are stacked one after the other between haute couture and pachinko parlors. We must have walked ...
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Shrine after Shrine
... ? Since it was Mother's Day and all, we took my Mom out for dinner at a restaurant along the river. We ate along Pontocho Street. It is a street famous for Geishas. There were a lot of fancy restaurants along the street and we settled on Japanese food. I ...
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Kyoto
... Around Gion there are lots of narrow streets with small traditional buildings on them which are shops or inns. From here we went up Pontocho-dori which looks very traditional and perhaps is how I imagined the Kyoto of old would have looked, and as if to ...
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Ausgetempelt
... with Mrs Hirota. Dinner tonight is in a tofu restaurant, which I struggle to find in a narrow street near the river in the Pontocho district. The waitresses are a bit snotty but the food is great. All tofu: creamy tofu as a starter, boiled tofu for ...
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Sakura in the old capital
... a couple hours, we decided to head back to Gion for dinner. I originally thought we'd stop in the same atmospheric kushikatsu-ya on Pontocho that my mom and brother and I visited a few years back, but it was more pricey than I recalled. So, instead we ...
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Temple City, part 1
... Weltkulturerbe). Beide Tempel werden derzeit leider restauriert und sind nur partiell zu besichtigen. War ausserdem in Pontocho, dem Nachtviertel von Kyoto und im International Manga Museum, welches mehr als 400000 Mangas beherbergt. In Japan sind ...
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Kyoto
... mais ca devenait inquietant.. Heureusement elles sont arrivees juste avant qu'on decide de partir en ville.. elles s'etaient perdues a Pontocho! On a mange ds un resto ou toutes les boissons etaient a moitie prix ... pour les filles seulement!.et on a ...
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- Teramachi
- Nishiki Market
- Nijo Jinya
- Nishijin Textile Center
- Kyoto Imperial Palace
- Silver Pavilion (Ginkaku-ji)
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
- Arashiyama
- WAK Japan
- Takashimaya
- Gion Kaburenjo Theater
- Gion
- Maruyama Park
- Otani Honbyo (Otani Mausoleum)
- Philosopher's Walk
- Ryozen Kannon
- Yasaka Shrine
- Hosomi Museum
- Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts
- Museum of Kyoto