In “Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005), young Chiyo runs beneath the thousands of vermilion torii gates of Fushimi Inari Shrine.
Spared from bombing, Kyoto was struck off the atomic target list on June 30, 1945, by direct order of War Secretary Stimson.
At dusk, slip into Pontocho alley: 17th-century wooden tea houses and lanterns running alongside the Kamo River.