One of the beautiful streets or area in Kyoto that you musn't miss when in Kyoto is definitely Gion.
Gion is Kyoto's most famous geisha district, located around Shijo Avenue between Yasaka Shrine in the east and the Kamo River in the west. It is filled with shops, restaurants and ochaya (teahouses), where geiko (Kyoto dialect for geisha) and maiko (geiko apprentices) entertain. SOURCE.
Gion attracts tourists with its high concentration of traditional wooden machiya merchant houses. Due to the fact that property taxes were formerly based upon street frontage, the houses were built with narrow facades only five to six meters wide, but extend up to twenty meters in from the street.
A walk through this street is pretty amazing.
The most popular area of Gion is Hanami-koji Street from Shijo Avenue to Kenninji Temple. Will post more about it soon.
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