Guide of Kyoto


It is a pleasure for me to introduce Kyoto to you, who read this page. I am an Assistant Professor of Kyoto University. I have lived in Kyoto for 17 years. I hope this page help you to make a good time when you take a part in this symposium.

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Briefly,
Name: Yukitaka Kimura
36 years old, male, married


Firstly, it is very important to know a traffic system and some famous spots. Here are the information to be linked.

Kyoto City Bus and Subway Guide
Kyoto city tourism and culture information system by Department of Industry and Tourism Tourist Section, Kyoto City Government
Sight Seeing Guide for Kyoto Pref.
Secondly here come some information which I would like to show.
　　Mt. Daimonji(You can see a good view of Kyot o City.)
Museum of Kansetsu Hashimoto
Steam locomotion
Night spots
Mt. Daimonji

You can find Mt. Daimonji (Nyoigatake) in Northern-East on the map of Kyoto City. You also can see a Chinese character, "Dai" (means "Big" and the shape of the character is similar to a person who stands up with keeping the hands to the sides.), on it when you come to the city. It is very famous as one of the five mountains for a ceremony to send spirits of dead people on 16th of Aug. every year..... You can read the story in a typical Japanese guidebook.
I recommend you to climb up the mountain in the daytime instead of watching up it because you have a nice view of Kyoto city after an hour-good exercise.

The way: The starting point is the gate of Ginkakuji temple, one of the famous temples. I hope you can find the way to the gate in a guide book for Kyoto city because the temple is very famous.
Please go to the left when you look at the gate. Turn to the right in a 40m-walk when you get a gate of shrine. Keep a walk along a small stream for 15 minutes. Go across the stream through a small bridge when you come to the terminal of the way along the stream. Clime up with a 45 minutes-walk. You had better bring water and a map. Good luck!
Museum of Kansetsu Hashimoto
　Kansetsu Hashimoto is a famous painter of Japanese paint. This museum has the house, which he lived in, with a wonderful Japanese garden. There is a restaurant. you can have a lunch with a good view of the garden. Need reservation for the lunch. No reservation to enter the garden and the museum, however, it costs 800-1,000 yen.
Place: Just near the fist traffic signal from coming down from Ginkakuji mentioned above.

Steam locomotion

　Umekoji steam locomotion museum has about 10 locomotion. One of them work s at 11:00,13:30,15:30. I think there is only one demonstration in an ordinary day.
But I am afraid that they have no English explanation.

Place: West of Kyoto Station. It takes 20 minutes on foot. Alternatively, take a bus and get off at the stop, Umekoji Koen (Park) Mae. Fee: 400 yen. Tel: 075-314-2996
Closed: Monday
Night spots
Here you have good bars. They have many foreigners as bartenders and customers. I hope you can get much better information of Kyoto there.

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This bar has a wide space, where a hundred can be, I think. All of food and drink cost 500 yen. No fee to enter it on the ordinary days but you need small fee on Saturday and Sunday.

Spot：Go two blocks to the south from the southern-east corner of Kawaramach i-Sanjo. Take a 20-meter walk to the east. You can find the bar on BF.

Africa
Here are also a lot of foreigners. You should buy a ticket for drink and food first.
Spot：Go three blocks to the south from the southern-east corner of Kawarama chi-Sanjo. Take a 20-meter walk to the east. You can find the bar on 1st floor of Rokkaku terrace building.