Kyoto in April4

If you don't have time to visit Kyoto soon, rent "Maiko Haaan!!!" It is a fast-paced screwball comedy about a Japanese business man obsessed with Maiko. It is written by the extremely talented Kankuro Kudo.
Maiko Haaan!!! (literally 'Miss Maiko' -- 'han' is the honorific 'san' in the Kyoto dialect) stars comedian Sadao Abe as the business man who dumps his office worker girlfriend (who eventually apprentices as a Geisha in order to win him back) when he got transferred to a branch office in Kyoto so he can pursue his dream of playing a 'strip baseball' drinking game with a real Maiko. His quest exposes all sorts of traditional class divisions and contradictions in Japanese society that still exsits. Along the way Abe runs afoul of an arrogant baseball player (Shinichi Tsutsumi) and the two engage in a ferocious competition that makes the movie very funny.

Kyoto in April 3

Kyoto in April 2

There are 27 universities in the city of Kyoto and many other vocational schools.


Population of the city is about 1.47million so colleage students make up large part of the population.

School year starts in April in Japan.
University courses end around February and those who graduate from colleage start moving out and thus the city gets gradually quiet. In April new students move in to start their college life and the city is vibrant again.


The synchronicity of the cycle of school life and nature makes Cherry blossoms even more special to us.

Kyoto in April

Hi! from Enough Heart Shrine staff in Japan.

Who we are and what we do will be revailed soon ;)
We are planing to give you a small piece of interesting infomation on Japanese culture everyday.
Starting today we are posting some photos my boss took in Kyoto at the begining of April.

Did you know that cherry trees in Washingon DC were sent to the U.S. as a symbol of friendship in 1912 by the then mayor of Tokyo?

We hope these photos that we are posting also works as such.