Anyone who has traveled to Kyoto is sure to remember the streets and alleyways lined with elegant and well-maintained traditional Japanese-style residences in which people still live. Strolling those streets one feels the spirit of Japanese literature. These spaces are perhaps unsuitable to financial calculations of their worth. But their value in terms of cultural history is something that even greater economic power could not buy.
去過日本京都的旅人，一定不會忘記京都巷弄中那古樸幽雅、維護完好，還有人居住的大片日式房舍，散步其間，日本文學的情境油然而生，那些空間，可能不符合經濟利益的估算，然而在文化歷史上的人文價值，可是再多的經濟力也買不來的。