Hanatoro ('Flower and Light Road') is in its foundling stage, designed to try and lure tourists before the Cherry Blossom Season. Shrines are illuminated, candle lanterns line the curving lanes of Higashi-yama, and free samples of traditional music and flower arrangements scatter the hillside parks, restaurants and shopping streets from Sanjo to Gojo. Warm, crowded, welcoming, bustling, a taste of the best of Kyoto's seasons.
