Nishiki Market

A way of approximately 2km that the Nishiki alley leads to the east and west from Nishiki Tenman-gu Shrine to Mibu. Approximately 400m from Teramachi Street to Takakura Street is Nishiki markets. The width is approximately 3.2m, and the shops approximately 140 form a line on both sides of the alley. A shop selling fresh fish from the Kamakura era is said that there was it, but ups and downs is repeated by Onin War and develops as a full-scale fish market from the Edo era, and it is said that it prospered as a shop of the Nishiki. Therefore there are still many shops handling a fish. It is crowded with the cook of the restaurant and local people in particular in a morning and the evening. Kombu and Kyoto vegetables, the specialty stores like the market including the adzuki bean form a line, and there are a restaurant and the cafe, too. It is fun to go out for walk of Kyoto after you buy a lunch here as there is the shop selling a side dish and a lunch. The pedestrian traffic extremely decreases at night as most shops close at about 18:00.