If you are wise enough to avoid these times, consider spending the night in one of some 60 temple lodgings (shukubo) that offer surprisingly comfortable traditional accommodation to visitors and travelers.
Shukubo is a type of temple lodging.
Two males on a cherry picker type of elevator, one wearing a khaki colored shirt and the other a yellow one, working on a cracked side of a building, with red flowers in the window next to them.