Pontochou park

On the day I visited here, restaurants facing to Kamo river are setting up the platforms called Yuka. Yuka is like a wide veranda on which many tables and chairs are placed, where customers eat and drink something, looking over Kamo river.
It is a summer feature of Kyoto, but it costs high to eat on Yuka. Therefore I entered the diner without Yuka in Pontocho, so I have not experienced it yet. Surely it is hot and humid, and mosquitoes fly; and I am sorry to say there will not be the great thing.
Restaurants, bars, and food shops form a line in this Pontocho along the alley of a narrow stone pavement. I was hanging around Machiya and an old style Japanese building and crossing a maiko… I realized that I was in Kyoto. There are also narrower alleys separated from the main street, where small restaurants stand but you can enter them only with regular customer’s recommendation.
If you walk the path, you will find Pontocho Park where the drunken customers may get rid of their intoxication. From here you can see Kamo river, which is also nice! Around the Pontocho area lunch is provided, too, but I want you to come by all means here at night.