The ban covers just several blocks of Gion. The district’s public streets will remain open to tourists, so the area and the rest of Kyoto will still be teeming with visitors, both from Japan and ...

In Kyoto, tourists flock to the picturesque Gion district to glimpse Geisha clip-clopping along cobbled streets. It's one of the most photographed parts of the ancient capital. But now the people ...

Kyoto is the cultural capital of Japan, so it is no ... in Kyoto for Culture: Gion District and Higashiyama The Gion neighborhood and Higashiyama are the most historic areas of Kyoto.

The structure in question is the Gion-kaku tower built in 1927 by industrialist ... of the World Heritage registration of Kyoto’s historic monuments. Seven other sites are also open to the ...

But nowhere are the perceptions more disparate than in Japan ... streets of Gion has been the geisha district of Kyoto for centuries. Hans Sautter / Aurora Select "So much in this historic ...