Gion is known as the district where the Geisha ochaya are. We went during the day to go shopping, and came back at night to see if we could catch a glimpse of the "floating" girls. More on geisha later. The girls in our group found a cute little boy with his parents and when they asked to take his pictures, he was so shy he didn't smile, but we started seeing a shy smile creep on to his face and it was so cute he was trying to hide it!
Our tour director Rie, showed us a quirky shop to eat lunch. We had to keep our eyes away from the wall, because there were random pornographic comic art that would make you (at least it did for me) blush, but the food was great!
Notice the sign- there were hand-pulled cars everywhere. I don't know how they did it- we could barely stand to be outside in the heat and humid. They were pulling people up hills and all over town! 
This was outside a cute little shop we found in a side street. The owner makes little villages for tiny animal figures.So... we did get to see three live Geiko (Geisha). They were about to step into a taxi, so we only saw them for a few seconds. Emily was fast enough to take a blury photo from afar so I'll have to ask her for it. Just within those few seconds, you could see how beautiful and graceful the ladies were. They were attended by an older "mamasan." More recently they prefer to be called Geiko instead of Geisha because Geisha has incorrectly been defined as high class prostitutes by the rest of the world. In fact, they are prohibited to have any sexual relations and are stricly trained to preform Japanese high arts like playing instruments, singing, and dancing. They are also excellent conversationalists.
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