Every guide tagged culture, for a trip to Japan.
Two religions, two sets of buildings and two sets of manners, visited by the same people on the same afternoon without anybody finding it strange.
The old teahouse quarter of Kyoto, its lanes and canal, what a geiko and a maiko actually are, and the etiquette the district now enforces on its private streets.
The Japanese manners a visitor genuinely needs: shoes, chopsticks, trains, queues, cash trays, temples and tipping, plus the ones you can safely ignore.
How to do Kyoto without the crowds swallowing you: the temples worth your time, the geisha district of Gion, a day-by-day plan, and the etiquette to get right.