京都で芸者を発見According to better informed sources than CycleKyoto, this lovely woman is a maiko, or apprentice geisha. She is not yet a geisha.
We were leading a small group of tourists on the Kyoto Station to Kiyamachi route, and decided to get off the bikes and wander on the adjacent alley way known as Pontocho.
Pontocho is a narrow car-free (and bike-free) street with restaurants and tea houses where the maiko and geisha entertain.
In front of the theater, just south of Sanjo on Pontocho, the maiko called Ichiraku was seated surrounded by fans.
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