Nishiki food market stretches a few blocks long in a straight line. Amazing purveyors of food and culinary paraphernalia. Each stall specializes in something, sesame, cutlery, rice, a rainbow of pickles... I highly recommend.

Incredible marketplace, stretches on for blocks, and packed full of any food item you can imagine. Be sure to stop in at the historic knife shop.

Stumbled on this Shabu place, with the best beef I've ever tasted.

Really great obanzai cuisine down a quiet alley in Gion. Inventive dishes and discrete atmosphere. Make sure you try the egg soufflé, something of a house special that was truly memorable.

Obanzai cuisine