Entering Hotel Sowaka in Kyoto's famous Gion district feels like stepping onto the set of the Disney+ series "Shōgun". Guests ...

For more inquiries, please call the Gion Corner theater at 075-561-1119 (available between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.) (Japanese original by Hiroshi Odanaka, Kyoto Bureau) ...

The geishas are well respected in Japan, especially in Kyoto which has several geisha districts, most famous of which is the Gion Corner. The word geisha is made up of two characters: meaning art ...

The "Gion Corner" stage was first held at Yasaka Hall in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward in 1962, and has been popular in recent years, attracting 80,000 visitors each year including tourists from abroad.

Gion is Kyoto’s geisha district and offers Instagram gold with its ancient wooden teahouses in narrow laneways. Chances are, the geishas are actually foreign visitors dressing up as the famed ...

Finally, with one big push, they turn the corner and begin moving forward again. Decorated with a towering central pole, some of the floats in Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri reach up to 25 metres in height.