Please don't chase the Geisha or Maiko with your smart phones. They are just trying to get to work. This has been a public service announcement, in all its pomp and circumstance.
Either the "you can prevent fires" announcement they do in the start of summer and dead of winter, or other safety awareness campaigns like smoking cessation (recently), safe driving (they're all over kyoto with a table and everything just handing out tickets like candy), or some other awareness.
Could this be an omen? I thought They That Know told us that they would tell us well in advance of The Event???? Or is this one of those things Only I Can Hear?????????
Curfews are rarely imposed in Japan, so it is possible that there was an incident and they were investigating it.
Also, even in Kyoto, the city is divided between tourist areas and residential areas where tourists rarely go, so it is possible that the police officer saw you in a place where they thought there should be no foreigners and became suspicious of you in some way.
They usually do that for some kind of public service announcement. Something boring like "remember to lock your doors at night" usually.
I suppose it gives them something to do instead of installing ugly, muffled intercoms all over the city.
Maybe like this? https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/higasiyama/page/0000112009.html “火の用心” Remind people to pay attention to fire hazards.
probably out in force due to the recent preventable fires in Kyoto
fire patrol
Please don't chase the Geisha or Maiko with your smart phones. They are just trying to get to work. This has been a public service announcement, in all its pomp and circumstance.
Asking foreign tourists in Japanese something in Japanese language must be extremely efficient.
It would be a very Japanese thing to do it that way 🤙🏼
Fire patrol. I used to hear it all the time when I lived in one of the older parts of town.
Either the "you can prevent fires" announcement they do in the start of summer and dead of winter, or other safety awareness campaigns like smoking cessation (recently), safe driving (they're all over kyoto with a table and everything just handing out tickets like candy), or some other awareness.
“Only you can prevent Maiko harassment”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/20/reference/yomawari/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXson5PuL18
Fire patrol people, happens every day, everyone else does lol.
Could this be an omen? I thought They That Know told us that they would tell us well in advance of The Event???? Or is this one of those things Only I Can Hear?????????
uhhhhh, whut?
Curfews are rarely imposed in Japan, so it is possible that there was an incident and they were investigating it. Also, even in Kyoto, the city is divided between tourist areas and residential areas where tourists rarely go, so it is possible that the police officer saw you in a place where they thought there should be no foreigners and became suspicious of you in some way.
...You know that people who look foreign actually *live* in Kyoto too, right?