There are a few different experiences you can have while you’re in Gion. The streets between Sanjo and Shijo are where most people go in the evenings for bar hopping in Gion, but the district ...

Core Kyoto narrator Gary Tegler gets a close-up look at the Gion Matsuri, which began over ... which stands at the eastern end of Shijo-dori, a main thoroughfare that runs east-west.

The Gion Festival has two climactic parts to it ... and preservation associations will hire guards and post them along Shijo-dori street and other locations during the Yoiyama periods to prevent ...