Kyoto walking tour, maimai kyoto

I have a memorable experience to join walking tours in Dublin and Inverness. In Dublin, there were many walking tours in autumn. If I rember correctly, winter had few of them. At Inverness in Scotland, I joined walking tour in frigid winter, and theme was someting like "hunt for ghost" or something related to ghost. It was good to hunt ghost in frigid winter.

This year, I found the walking tour is organized in Kyoto for everyone. Unlike Dublin or Inverness where English is spoken, this walking tour is in Japanese, so basically it is just for Japanese. The theme of each of this Kyoto walking tour is quite unique, or I can cay maniac. I have participated four walking tour so far, but none covered no famous temples and shrine, nor world heritage site. I, who has been living in Kyoto for a long time, kept discovering new facts and new theory while participating this walking tour.

Yesterday, the spring period of this walking tour was complete, so drinking party was organized. I dared to participate. I don't remeber the exact number, but about 160 walking tour was done in the spring period. I only participated 4 times, so most of the participants were new to me.

The tour guide is ordinary people, but they have deep interest and knowledge to particular area. If you have a chance to stay in Kyoto, and you like to experience unbeaten track, consider this.

This is called "maimai kyoto". "maimai" is "walking around" or "loiter" in Kyoto dialect. If you are interested and need translating, I will do translation depending on workload in my salaryman life.
http://www.maimai-kyoto.jp/

You get unique seal on every occasion. It's fun to collect these seals, too.