[Kyoto] Kiyomizu-dera and Gion Morning Private Walking Tour

Kyoto's famous temples are worth seeing and almost unbearable at midday. This walk starts before the crowds: empty stone lanes, morning light on the hillside, monks doing their actual work rather than performing it. Then down through Gion while the district is still waking up - teahouses shuttered, deliveries arriving, the machiya facades visible without a wall of people in front of them.