KYOTO—Residents fed up with bad ... The approximately 90-meter-long street leads to Hanami-Koji street, a popular sightseeing spot where geisha and “maiko” geisha apprentices can be seen.

Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto ... alleys in its famous geisha district because of complaints about misbehaving visitors. Tourists crowd the narrow, quaint streets of the area called Gion ...

The professional artists were being chased down private streets in the district ... Peter Macintosh, a Kyoto-based Canadian ...

In Kyoto, tourists flock to the picturesque Gion district to glimpse Geisha clip-clopping along cobbled streets. It's one of the most photographed parts of the ancient capital. But now the people ...

Gion, Japan's popular geisha district in Kyoto, will be barring tourists from ... told the AFP that tourists won't be allowed to enter specified streets from April onwards. The district council ...

The reason most people visit Kyoto is to see the historic Gion district, hoping to catch a glimpse of a geisha. But my Intrepid local leader Yuki points out that most of the “geisha” that tourists ...

Known as the center of Kyoto’s geisha culture, Gion is filled with traditional wooden machiya houses and narrow streets that transport you back in time. It’s a wonderful place to explore on ...