Want to be treated like a VIP while watching a procession during Kyoto's famed Gion Matsuri Festival? For 400,000 yen per person, premium seats with special benefits are being offered for the event to be held July 17.
Mainly targeting tourists from overseas, the 84 seats were put on sale from Monday by the Kyoto City Tourism Association.
The premium seats will be set up at the Kawaramachi Oike intersection for an up-close view of the Gion Matsuri's float procession called "yamahoko junko."