Kyoto Nishiki Market and Pontocho Self-Guided Audio Walk: Nishiki Tenmangu, Pontocho Alley and the Kamo River

<ul><li value="1" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Walk from Nishiki Market through the Shinkyogoku arcade and along the Takase canal into Pontocho, ending on the Kamo River.</span></li><li value="2" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">See Nishiki's food shops, a shrine gate pressed into the shops, Seigan-ji, the Sanjo bridge and the Pontocho Kaburenjo.</span></li><li value="3" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hear how a painter saved Kyoto's kitchen in court, a merchant paid to dig a canal, and 1872 reinvented the city's nights out.</span></li><li value="4" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">End on the Shijo bridge over the Kamo, looking across the water at Minami-za and its licensed-theater tower.</span></li><li value="5" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">10 stops over 1.9 km, about 75 minutes, with English audio you start whenever you like.</span></li></ul>