Cherry blossoms just around the corner

In these days, getting warm so coming Hanami season.
Many tourist is going to get together in Kyoto.
If you stay in our hostel, you can see beautiful Cherry blossomes near here(just 1min by walk ) and it's very good location on old style of houses, stream and stone path.
I see many photographer there when i coming through.

light up in the night time!

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The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net

Illuminated Night of Kyoto

Starting from the entrance of a famous temple, I walked down in an illumination event, named Hnatouro(花灯路). The sunset didn't come yet. The sky was getting dark and dark.

I looked down at the famous street. There's a line of lights from lanterns and shops.

Here's Kiyomizu-dera temple. The blue light heading to the sky was one of the characteristic, when it's illuminated.

Inside the dark passage was something mysterious.  

And the balcony of the temple was fantastic.

There's a famous Japanese proverb about the balcony. Leaping from the balcony of Kiyomizu-dera temple, which mean Doing something bravely. Because it's located so high. Leaping from the balcony to the ground, it's scaring!

But, this time it's maybe fantastic! Yeah, of course with a　parachute!

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The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net

Guests from Hungary

We welcomed a group of nine Hungarians.


In this photo there are 11 people, but two girls at the lower left are not our guests.
They are local Japanese and they were guiding these Hungarian guests.


They came to Japan to take part in a special course at a Japanese university for two weeks.
They were studying Japanese in Hungary, so some of them spoke English very well.


They seemed to be very good friends.
However they had some troubles when they decide plans.


Each of them had different opinions, so they were discussing what to do and where to go for a long time.
I wanted to give them some advice, but I did not understand Hungarian at all...


Finally they always came to some agreements, and were getting along with themselves.


I hope they enjoyed Japan.

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The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net

markets infomation

While you stay in Kyoto, you may have chance to go for some flea markets and they usually happen once every month each market.

every first Saturday = hand-made market @ Umekoji-park
every first Sunday = garakuta-ichi(junk antique and hand-made) @ To-ji(temple)
every first Sunday = Komachi hand-made market @ zuishin-in(temple)
every second Sunday = Tora-ichi(hand-made) @ Bishamonten(temple)
every 15th = Hyakumanben-san hand-made market @ Chion-ji(temple)
every 21st = Kobo market(antique) @ To-ji(temple)
every 25th = Tenjin-san @ Kitanotenmangu(shrine)....etc

You ask for staffs, you don't miss it! you will get priceless things!!

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The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net

How to Learn Japanese More Efficiently

About how to Learn Japanese More Efficiently, it's very simple. There's no method. You can follow the following rules.
1. Do not hesitate to speak in it
2. Do not mind a small mistake or big mitake
3. Understand the difficulty of Japanese kanji.

Yeah, if you learn Japanese, you have to memorize 3 types of letters. One of them is Hiragana and Katakana. They are much simple than kanji, which is the most difficult part to learn Japanese language, also for Japanese native speakers. Of course, me too.

I went to a castle in Kyoto. That is beautiful. This time I don't talk about the beauty of the castle. In the photo, there's a blue street sign with a street's name, "Bifuku dori".

It's written "美福通り" in Japanese. It looks very difficult, if you don't know the kanji. BUT,

The kanji is really difficult also for Japanese. Because there're more that 10,000 kanji in a dictionary. And also, they have some pronunciations each. "美" is normally "Bi ". But it can be pronounced as "Mi".　And if in the end of 美 there's しい, you have to pronounce "Utukushii", which is "美しい".

Yeah, that is difficult. But, don't worry. A city officer or government officer made the mistake. If you watch the sign carefully, you will find "M" behind "B". It was erased. And on the "M" a officer print "B".

Of course, a human being makes a mistake, not all the time, but sometimes.
Don't worry about it, when you learn the difficult language!

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The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net

regional events in Kyoto

Regional community sometimes have events each to make the town cheer up.
some eating and drinking establishments around the town get together and make fest.
sometimes for a international interaction.
You could have fun!
the other day, I went for a local beers fest that you can taste several beer little by little for cheep price and every people was getting drunk from noon.
Red faces around the park was great!

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The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net

Kurama(鞍馬) Area for the Beauty of Nature and Tengu

This city, Kyoto has two parts, which is the city side and the countryside. Both have their own characters. The city side has very historical temples and shrines and busy streets good for drinking at night. It's sometimes very chaotic, yet worth staying.

About the countryside you can enjoy the beauty of nature. I took the photo from train. The mountain and maple trees in March.

Just the mountain. Actually with some houses. Streets are wide. Compering to the city side, it's also comfortable.

Oh, this area is called "Kurama(鞍馬)", which is very famous for Tengu(天狗). Tengu is a Japanese imaginary creature. It's said they are very smart and had super natural powers. They could fly and thy could make winds.

The masks are Tengu masks. You can buy as the souvenir. Their faces are normally red and their noses are very toll. They have the mustache. And the eyes is like starling something. 

The building is Kurama-dera temple. That's one of the famous things in the area.

Very big wooden sign board like 4 meters.

Inside the temple, there's some big trees. This is a sort of gods. The tree has a magic power. So if you make a wish, it will come true!

From the upstairs. You see ropes in the both photos. The ropes are sacred ropes for a god tree.

In the evening, I went up the mountain in Kurama-dera temple. The shade and shadow was very deep.

And the sunshine before sunset was glaring, yet it was really comfortable.

In the nature, and in the old temple, you may feel something special and new. That's located the north side of Kyoto. From our hostel it's a bit far, like 40 minutes by train.

But, the place is still super nice!! Please try visiting!

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The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net