Though Kyoto at night have been known by some people such as local people and hotel guests, different from the daytime with relatively high number of tourists, a narrow path in and around Higashiyama had never been a place to walk except downtown areas, partly because of the limit of opening hours of most temples and shrines.
比較的、観光客の多い日中と異なり、夜の京都は地元や宿泊客などの一部に知られるものの、寺社のほとんどは拝観時間の制限もあり、繁華街を除けば東山周辺の小路などが散策の対象になることは少なかった。