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Kyoto Nishiki Market Food and Culture Walking Tour
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Kansai, Japan
$88.00
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Overview
Get an introduction to Kyoto’s renowned cuisine on this small-group guided tour of the city's best food spots. Start at the vast 400-year-old Nishiki Market, nicknamed 'Kyoto's Kitchen,' where hundreds of food shops and stalls beckon. Stroll through the market with your guide, learning about Kyoto’s culinary history and sampling dishes unique to Kyoto.
・Spend time wandering around Nishiki Market, home to 130 food stalls
・Enjoy 5 carefully selected local specialties like tofu skin, WAGYU steak skewers, and Hamo tempura
・Get insider knowledge from a local Guide
・Spend time wandering around Nishiki Market, home to 130 food stalls
・Enjoy 5 carefully selected local specialties like tofu skin, WAGYU steak skewers, and Hamo tempura
・Get insider knowledge from a local Guide
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Nishiki Market Cultural Walking Food Tour
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 3 hours
- Food tasting
- Local guide
- 5 Special Street Food(Tofu skin, Local home cooking, Hamo Tempura, WAGYU steak skewers, and more)
Meeting point
[Meetup]10:15 am in front of the South West Main entrance of DAIMARU KYOTO.
*In front of the "Shijo Takakura bus stop" along big Shijo street.
*This is NOT FUJII Daimaru.
Return details
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Nishiki Market Shopping DistrictSoak up the sights, sounds, and smells, and learn about local food culture in this 400-year-old market with 130 shops all along a narrow five-block long street. This market still functions as an important place for both locals and professional chefs. Many chefs of Michelin-star restaurants and hotels/ryokans buy their ingredients from this market everyday. Locals come to the market when they want real atuhentic ingredients with best quality. While wandering through the market and sampling various kind of foods, you will learn about Japanese foods, local specialties, and food culture. Let's enjoy the market, not only foods but also all food related shops such as kitchen knives, tableware, and chopsticks.
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Nishiki TenmanguVisiting a local Shinto shrine. You will learn about things you often find at a shrine and how to pray at a Japanese Shinto shrine. Also, you could know the basics about the worships among Japanese People. If you like, you can try a fortune paper.
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Shinkyogoku Shopping DistrictThis pedestrian-only shopping arcade street is a great spot for tourists as it blends traditional Kyoto culture with modern commercial trend. You will feel the life of the local people while walking through this local shopping street, where various shops from long-established shops to the latest shops line up.
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Takoyakushido Eifukuji TempleA small Buddhist temple located at the corner of the shopping street. There are temples everywhere in Kyoto, so this is something local experience that you can feel temples close to you in everyday life.
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Teramachi-dori StreetYou will feel the life of the local people while walking through this local shopping street, where various shops from long-established shops to the latest shops line up.
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Takashimaya Kyoto StoreKyoto-based department store offering a wide range of shopping options. You will explore the basement food floor, unique to Japanese department stores, filled with a wide variety including delicious pastries, gourmet snacks, ready-to-eat meals, and traditional Japanese delicacies. Your guide will also tell you hidden photo spots for Nintendo fans.
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Kyoto Nishiki Market Food and Culture Walking Tour
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Kansai, Japan
$88.00
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!