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Takase River Boat Festival
Takase River is now nothing more than a lovely small canal with clear water flowing along Kiyamachi street, but back in Edo era, it used to be an important transportation route in Kyoto. Today, between 10:30 and 16:00, maiko from Pontocho welcome visitors and by passers with green tea.
It was a beautiful day today, and [...]
Asatsuyugahara
It’s been a year since we moved to our new house, in the North Ward of Kyoto, near Kamigamo shrine. Just across the street, the Kamo River makes its way slowly through what is called Asatsuyugahara-cho.I found this particular name to be extremely poetic: imagine the rise of the sun over a green field wet [...]
