Enjoy Yasaka-jinja shrine (八坂神社, やさかじんじゃ)

The view from the gate way of Ysaka-jinja shrine (八坂神社, やさかじんじゃ) is a little bit tricky like this.

You can look down a busiest street of Kyoto from there. The name of that street is Shijo-dori street (四条通り, しじょうどおり). And that corner is almost center of Gion (祇園, ぎおん) area. In front of the gate way you will find Gion bus stop.

And almost all the time it’s so crowded. There are small sidewalks and so many people, travelers and local people. If a traffic light to go to Yasaka-jinja shrine from a front sidewalk changes, you have to cross a street to get to the orange gateway, pushing people and pushed by people, especially at a new year.

It’s also a cultural characteristic aspect of Japan!!
We enjoy that crowdedness!!

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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

Eel rice bowl in a summer day

If you loss your vigor to do work or play, you should eat the eel rice bowl.

In Japan, we eat this cuisine before we are suffered from the tiredness from high temperature.

It looks tasty! On rice there is a grilled eel. That seasoning is, of course, soy sauce.

I've eaten it and got back the vigor!
Going out to enjoy this city, Kyoto is nice to walk in the hot summer!

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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

Nishijin Textile Center

What's your image of Japan?

I think that one of your image should be kimono.
In Kyoto, there is a place where you can see a kimono fashion show.
The place is "Nishijin Textile Center"(20 mins from A-yado by bus)

When you go there, an elegant kimono fashion show which last 15 mins is held 7 times a day.
Also if you have advance reservations, you could be a model in a kimono fashion show.

It's nice place, isn't it?

When you come to Kyoto,you must go there.
It must be a good experience for you!!

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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

A rainy season has been finished

A rainy season of this year has been finished! Then we can go out without worrying about rain which continues in the whole of a day. But this beautiful flower has been finished too. 

Yes, in the picture there are some hydrangea flowers. The pink and blue will come next year. It’s written in a book about hydrangea flowers that acidic substances of the soil are taken up and affect colors of those flowers. The pH is the most related to decide colors: pink, blue, red and purple. 

If pH of the soil changes, you will find other colors of hydrangea flowers at the same place. It’s interesting!

The flowers died down for next year. See you for now! I’ll come back there next year!!

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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

Our business card

We are staff of a hostel. So we have good knowledge about Kyoto, hospitality for every guest and our business cards in the following picture. What should that color be? 

It's red!! In my opinion, Kyoto has some colors, and one of them is red. Because almost all shrine gateways are red or orange! You may find thousands of gateways of that colors.

In our business card, there are, of course, some information about us and a map around Gion, Kyoto. If you get lost, please show our business card, and ask where it is. People in Japan are, normally, so polite to show how to get to the place where you want to go.

No worries. No need to learn Japanese, because everybody can point something like a street on a map, and let you follow them!!

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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

The Minamiza Theater

Do you know Kabuki?

Kabuki is a popular traditional stage drama in Japan performed exclusively by men alnog with songs and music.

Here is the Minamiza theater which you can enjoy kabuki.

There were seven kabuki stages in the 17th century in Kyoto, but only the Minamiza theater remains to this day. so it's great historical value.

Please expose to traditional Japanese culuture in the Minamiza theater when you come to Kyoto.

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

info@ayado.net

Monkeys in Arashiyama area again

We show monkeys in a monkey park in Arashiyama area. They are so cute. And during summer they look so lazy. We have the tendency not to like laziness rather than loving it. But looking at the following photo, I may love the laziness.

Well, they are So Cute!! Without doubt, they are lazy, but that kind of tendency is, sometimes, lovable.

O.K, I will go to that park again, and lay down besides them!
Hey, lovable monkeys, do NOT bite me!!

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The backpacker's hostel is in Kyoto, located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access with buses and train lines. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.

info@ayado.net