Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Where are the geishas?

So, we checked in at the ryokan, and asked the nice lady there "Where are these geishas and maikos that everyone talks about all the time?" and she told us exactly on which street we could find them. Also we learned that maikos and geishas could be distinguished by which lip they paint. Seriously. I think beginner maikos only paint their lower lip no pun intended. And the fully trained ones paint both lips red.
So we went out and started looking for that street. As you can see, the streets were pretty empty around that time.
Only people we could see were a couple of young girls with severe iron deficiency judging by their extremely pale faces.
So I asked them where that road is which the ryokan lady told us about. They had no idea.

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