The Street of Kyoto (2) ; Higashioji-dori 1

It is Higashioji-street which runs north and south before the Yasaka-jinjya Shrine is at the end of Shijo-dori where I gave an account last time. Its another name is Higashiyama-dori. Shijo-dori has been since Heian era, but Higashioji-dori which was built after 1889 is a new trunk road. Especially I don't think that it interested me. And there is terribly traffic jam in the tourist season. Because it is one of main routes of bus which connects Kyoto Station and main tourist attractions, and it has a lot of sightseeing points which tourists visit enough to say always, for example Gion and Kiyomizu-dera Temple etc..This time I strolled around Higashioji-dori. I started from the intersection of Shijo-dori and Higashioji-dori.

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2007-01-29 17:43:07