← Japan & Korea
Kyoto, at Walking Pace
Temples before the gates open, a machiya instead of a hotel, one dinner arranged through a relationship rather than a platform.
Kyoto punishes ambition. Six nights with two fixed points a day will show you more of the city than four nights with five, and the difference is felt on the fourth morning when you are still willing to walk.
You stay in a machiya rather than a hotel — a townhouse with a courtyard, in a neighbourhood where the shops know the house. It comes with a housekeeper who arrives before breakfast and leaves without being noticed.
- Region
- Japan & Korea
- Length
- Six nights
- Best season
- Late November for maple, or the first week of April
- Pace
- Two fixed points a day, never three.