Kyoto has about 13,000 alleys with a total distance of 940km, and an increasing number of their houses are unoccupied. People ...

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Pontocho Alley, perhaps Kyoto's most famous street, was so clogged with visitors during high season that you almost couldn't breathe. Then the pandemic hit. Tourism as Kyoto knew it ended — and ...