Talk:Gion

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Japanese houses

Gion remains dotted with old-style Japanese houses called ochaya...

Not every business in an old-style house is an ochaya. The classic wooden row-houses are collectively called machinami ("city rows"), and the individual unit is a machiya ("city house").

Claw789 07:05, 22 July 2007 (UTC)