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Mitarashi Matsuri 7/24-27
at Shimogamo Shrine
The ceremony is informal and anyone can join. Holding a candle in one hand and your shoes in the other, you step into the icy-cold, clear stream that flows through the shrine. detail>>
Enjoy your time on the old capital with an English-speaking guide. For further information click here>> or visit each website.
Thank you for your interest in Kyoto and the Kyoto
Visitor's Guide.
The
Kyoto Visitor's Guide (in print since 1987) offers visitors to Kyoto
a great source of up-to-date tourist and travel information: in clear, easy-to-understand English.
In this excellent guide (and online) you will find useful information about:
1) Kyoto's
best hotels, ryokans, youth hostels, bed and breakfasts, etc.
2) Kyoto's
finest restaurants, bars and cafes
3) places
to buy and see Japanese handicrafts
4)
suggestions for recommended local walking tours (and great maps in the
print version)
5) places
to experience tea ceremony and other popular Japanese cultural forms
6) detailed
monthly information on ceremonies, rituals, and festivals at Kyoto countless
temples and shrines
7) detailed
information on what is on at Kyoto many museums
8) tour and personal guide and business service options
9) post offices, internet
access, how
to use phones, and contact numbers for embassies and airlines
10) essential Japanese. For a truly memorable stay in Kyoto,
visit the Kyoto Visitor's Guide
homepage @ www.kyotoguide.com !!!
2008 July
Published on the 1st
of every month.
The 222th issue, since 1987.