ECO SPT NA Namic Every Month on the 25th, Kyoto Does Something It Has Done for Over a Thousand Years Most visitors to Kyoto do the same loop. Fushimi Inari at dawn. Arashiyama in the morning. Kinkakuji — the Golden Pavilion — in the…
HUM SPT NA Namic Gion Matsuri Is Not One Event. It’s an Entire Month — and Most Visitors Miss the Best Parts. Most people who come to Kyoto for Gion Matsuri see the same thing: the floats on July 17th. They line the streets of Shijo-dori, photograph…
HUM SPT NA Namic The Night Gion Matsuri Shows You What It Really Is: Fire, Water, and the Mikoshi Arai A first-hand account of July 10 in Kyoto — the lantern procession, the great torches, and the river purification that most visitors never…
HUM TCH NA Namic Osendo: The Ceremony That Quietly Opens Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri Gion Matsuri, Kyoto’s largest festival, does not begin with the parade everyone photographs in mid-July. It begins on the morning of July…
HUM NA Namic What Kyoto’s Geisha Do During Gion Festival That Nobody Sees Every July, during one of Japan’s largest festivals, a small number of women walk a short route through the crowds each night for seven…
