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Pontochō Alley Dinner

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Pontochō Alley Dinner

A single lantern-lit alley between Sanjō and Shijō, restaurants stacked shoulder to shoulder. In summer many open kawadoko terraces over the Kamo River — book those ahead.

Photo: Sergiy Galyonkin from Raleigh, USA, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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