16 Restaurants Around Gion for Touristy Lunch Breaks!
Renowned as an elegant red-light district, Gion has been a popular tourist hotspot ever since ancient times. Easily accessible from Kyoto Station, it is home to lots of famous attractions like Kamo River, Yasaka Shrine and Minamiza, and offers a lovely Japanese townscape at any time of the year, so tourists come and go endlessly from all parts of the world! The machiya street (lined with old merchant's houses) crowded with geisha, may seem a bit unapproachable, but it also hosts plenty of restaurants where you'll feel the local hospitality. This article collects a few spots in Gion where you can enjoy a casual lunch.