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nese who were too tired to cook when they got home. of Japanese souvenirs, arts and crafts and everyday stuff like
Just a block or two from Chuo-dori street, the retail mix cosmetics and chopsticks.
changes dramatically. Tiny eateries are interspersed with One of our most interesting shopping experiences was in
mom and pop specialty shops, selling everything from Kyoto at the Nishiki Market, also known as “Kyoto’s Kitchen.”
kimonos to antique samurai swords. Soon or later, in almost The crowded five-block market was a cacophony of sights
every city we visited, we would run into a covered shopping and sounds with smallish stalls selling every kind of Japanese
arcade sprawling for blocks and blocks selling a combination food imaginable along with kitchenware, t-shirts and ornate
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