Due to the concentration of visitors from Japan and abroad, annoying behavior toward "Ochaya," or tea houses where guests are entertained by geisha, and Geiko and Maiko, or geisha and apprentice geisha, has become a problem around Hanami-koji Street in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto. As a result, various measures will be...

The Private Lodging Business Act, known as "Minpaku-ho," which permits owners to lodge tourists in residences for a fee, marked its 1st anniversary on June 15. According to results compiled by Japan Tourism Agency as of June 7, there are 555 vacation rentals in Kyoto City, an increase of 25...

This year marks the 10th year since Kusatsu City Tourist Association in Shiga Prefecture and other organizations started their annual summer-time event to experience hot-air balloon flight at Karasuma Peninsula in Oroshimo-cho, Kusatsu City. The flight time is short, lasting about five minutes, but it is popular as tourists can...

Green maple leaves are at their best in Rurikoin in Takano, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto. In the mountain and valley surrounded temple, green gradation composed of the many trees is fascinating people. Over the moss carpet rolled out in "Ruri-no-niwa," a Japanese-style garden, more than 100 "Takao Momiji" and other kinds...

On May 4, Greenery Day, a slow-moving train for enjoying the scenery of fresh green leaves along the railway was operated in the "Maple Tree Tunnel" section between Eizan Railway's Ichihara and Ninose Stations in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto. Passengers were quite pleased with the scenery from the train windows of...

A photo of a sign titled "Dear Loyal Customers" has become a hot topic on Twitter. It was uploaded by "Kyoto-tamanoyu," a long-established public bathhouse in Kyoto. The sign requests that patrons not speak harshly to nor rebuke first-time or young customers who do not have good manners, but rather...

The Aoi Festival, the first of Kyoto's three major festivals, was held on May 15 in Kyoto City, for the first time in the Reiwa Era, or the name of the symbolic reign of the present emperor. The graceful procession reenacting the court refinement of the Heian Period proceeded through...