What can you see along the GionShijo area of Kyoto ?

Kenninji Temple is just situated at the end of Hanami Lane, at the Gion-Shijo station area. This temple was never in our itinerary. We didn't check it out, even though it was just close by. There are really too many temples in Japan, if we will try to visit every one of them, I believe, we will need more than one whole year to complete this major task.

We also didn't take the main road , which was just packed with tourist when we were there, to return to Kawaramachi station area, we took a back lane instead. This back lane turned out to be equally interesting, and happened to encounter a lot of mini front porch gardens.


This shop is found near to the Hanami Lane of Kyoto,which claims its business hours lasts till 26:00hrs. I initially thought, this must be the Japanese way to express their working hours, and started to pay close attention to other business hours and found out there are actually no other shops that has the same operation hours as this particular one.



Near the Gion-Shijo station



English road signs are available, all Japanese road signs are in Kanji, which is actually Chinese characters. At times, I even thought that I was in China, if only the Japanese will start to speak more louder.



Young rider enjoying herself on a Sunday evening, along Kamo River...I did not see other riders at this area.





Just immediately further down, I came across this sign on the river bank, it clearly states that bicycle riding is prohibited. And Japanese are highly law-abiding people , can't explain why did I still see rider,  She is not  a Japanese, any possibility ?




At the river banks of Kamo river, young couples are often seen around here..both local residents and tourists  like to take a walk along the river banks in the evenings. The yellow building in the backdrop is a century-old Chinese restaurant. We chose to have Japanese food anyhow,.



It was getting dark. So, we didn't try to go over to the other side of the river. It would definitely be mush colder if we would to go very near to the water. I was feeling a bit chilly ,even though I was having my pull-over on.

There are plenty of restaurants on Kawaramachi station area of the Kamo river. We actually had our dinner at the nearby kiyamachi street.

A tired traveller or just another homeless local.  Read an article sometimes ago, which reported that homeless people in Japan are increasing in number in the last few years, due to economy downturn.