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KYOTO, JAPAN. MAY 2024

Nishiki Market, Nishiki-Tenmangu Shrine

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Kyoto’s Nishiki Market

This 400m-long (1312ft) arcade street, several paces wide, has more than one hundred shops and stalls selling everything from kitchenware and powdered matcha to pufferfish sashimi, and an ocean floor’s worth of seaweed.

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