Kyomachiya is Kyoto style house. When you wald down the street, you will find unique old streets.
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Jizobon
When you walk down the street maybe you will find some really little shrine facing to the street hidden by a building or other thing.
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Kanji
Kanji is kind of an ideograph, which is developed from a pictograph. Actually there are 45,000 letters of Kanji in Japan. It says a normal university graduate knows about 8,000 letters.
Katakana
Katakana was invented during Heianperiod (794-1185) in Kyoto. It is a kind of syllabic letters which was developed from Kanji. Katakana was used for stiff style document such as government official document. Actually it still uses for legal expression and law.
Hiragana
It says the origin of Hiragana is little later of Katakana. Hiragana was developed from character written in running style. It was used for unofficial documents such as poem, letter, etc between women of Kyoto. After that it became popular even for men as its simplicity and ease. Hiragana is different from Katakana which is aimed for writing with brush. It uses for Shodo (calligraphy), too.