Located on the bustling Shijo-dori near Yasaka Shrine, Kagizen Yoshifusa has been selling this dessert in Gion since the mid-Edo period (1603-1867), making it an enduring presence in Kyoto’s ...

Around the Gion district in the city's Higashiyama Ward, 14 bins have been installed to replace all the existing ones, at seven locations such as by the Minamiza Theatre to the west and Yasaka ...

The restrictions to Kyoto's Gion neighborhood ... to visit popular tourist attractions such as the 1,300-year-old Yasaka Shrine and the scenic Tatsumi Bridge. One hundred fifty miles from Kyoto ...

Core Kyoto narrator Gary Tegler gets a close-up look at the Gion Matsuri, which began over ... the parish neighborhoods stretching west from Yasaka Jinja. before the deities in their palanquins ...