京の川床は、桃山時代後期、裕福な人々が鴨川の中州や浅瀬に床机を設け、遠方からの客をもてなしたのが始まりといわれています。
鴨川納涼床は、その起源を近世初頭まで遡ると言われ、
祇園祭とともに京の年中行事になりました。
数百年に亘る歴史の中で幾多の変遷を経て現在の姿となり、京都の伝統文化、夏の風物詩に欠かせないものとして、京都の暮らしの中に定着しています。
こうした歴史を持つ京の夏の風物詩である納涼床は、最近ではバーやカフェ等の新しい営業形態も登場しながら、その伝統文化が発展的に継承・保存されています。
It is said that Kawadoko(or Kawayuka)-dining on the decks over the river of Kyoto started at the end of Momoyama period by the wealthy merchants who placed low tables on the riverside of Kamogawa, which was sandback and shoal, to entertain their guests from afar.
The origin of Kamogawa Noryoyuka is said to be ascend to the early modern, and it became a yearly event with Gion Festival.
During its history of hundreds of years, it has shifted many times and turned into the Kawadoko(or Kawayuka)-dining that you could see now, and it became a traditional event which is necessary in summer time and fixed into Kyoto’s people’s life.
Such historical Noryoyuka is succeeded and preserved with flow of the days, that you could see another new Kawadoko(or Kawayuka) which bar and cafe started.

9月末までの「鴨川納涼床」、京都へお越しの際はぜひさまざまな納涼床を楽しんでみてくださいね。
“Kamogawa Noryoyuka” is set up until November, when you are coming during this period, please enjoy various Noryoyuka.

LST京都本店　和婚プランナー
山本　育子
LST Kyoto Salon Wakon planner
Ikuko Yamamoto