>>81693893kyoto is probably my favourite place but not the main part and certainly not gion
if you know much about japan then you should have a good idea - i did before i ever visited but a few things surprised me
>japs were friendlier than i expectedthey would strike up conversations with me regularly
some are absolutely hostile but mostly old people and i would say more were very open than were unpleasant
>it is cheapthen yen is worth nothing
>there was a lot more jinglish than i expectedand i do not like to see or hear it
idk what to tell you really since idk what you think japan would be like
i've spent a good amount of time there so it isn't like my opinion is baseless
kyoto has a lot of tourists but also a lot of japanese tourists and there are still parts where you see zero foreigners
heck this one girl was all panicked trying to deal with me even though i spoke enough japanese that she didn't need to use english, she was really cute