If you want to see more detailed shots of the room and such, you can go to the "Everyday Things In Japan" gallery....or just click here http://www.pbase.com/image/20170809 and look at the next few pictures.

Their website is: http://hotel.newhankyu.co.jp/kyoto-j/welcome-j.html
There's a link for the English reading folks too.

This is pretty much the only sign that had a funny typo. You'll probably see more typos in my text here than I did in all of Japan.

Big difference - Japanese vs. Western!

These convenient little yellow "markers" were there, I devised, for several reasons. One was traffic control - if you kept to the left you were more than likely OK. These yellow markers were also raised so that a sight-impared person could "feel" along and know where they were. See how the bar goes across the way where the steps start? Another guide for the sight-impared. Pretty clever!

These yellow markers were on every street and in every subway/train station.

(text from the program) The art of puppet performing developed in Japan in the 8th century. Since that time, Japan has a long tradition of traveling storytellers and traveling puppeteers. At some point, these two art forms joined. Bunraku is a highly sophisticated form of puppet theatre featuring large puppets, maninpulated by up to three men, narrators or tayu, and shamisen musicians. However, the beginning of what is now called Bunraku was 1684, when Takemoto Gidayu set up his own theatre in Osaka. Indeed, much of the Bunraku repertoire consists of stores about the merchant class, many of which are still popular today. Japan's National Bunraku Theatre is located in Osaka.

No, I didn't try one. Saw this during my wanderings around looking at the floats. There were tons of food vendors and carnival type games. The food was fried octopus, some type of meats grilled (could've been chicken or pork or beef or something else), plenty of noodles, and lots of other goodies!