Before COVID hit, the ancient city's 17 world heritage sites and 2,000 temples and shrines helped to draw tens of millions of tourists every year. But it still can't pay the bills.

Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and a popular tourist destination, is taking measures to address complaints about misbehaving visitors in its famous geisha district.

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The moon in Japan is not like our moon. There is no man in there, for one thing. No man, no horn, no cow. It’s nighttime in Kyoto, and Shima Enomoto, one of my guides, is pointing up at the sky ...

Ms. Sugiyama, 39, was born in Mie Prefecture, in the central part of Japan’s main island of Honshu, but moved to Kyoto for college and then became a clerk in a wagashi shop.