Kyoto: Nishiki Market in the morning

After taking our time waking up and having a good breakfast at the hotel, we went to (re)visit Nishiki Market (錦市場) 🗾. This time, we were there earlier in the day, so more shops were open, and we had more time to look around.

Nishiki Market Scenes

The shops offered everything from food and sake to knives, sweets, tea, gifts, cosmetics, and more. We checked out many stores and food stalls, some of which were:

• THE CITY BAKERY Kyoto Nishiki Kouji (THE CITY BAKERY 京都錦小路) 🗾. This bakery, originally from New York City and founded by Maury Rubin, offers many kinds of breads, pastries, and cakes. Among them are various flavors of babka.
• Hanayori Kiyoe (錦市場 花よりキヨエ) 🗾. Croquettes fried in special olive oil.
• Yamasho (錦市場 山庄) 🗾. This fresh fish store has lots of skewers out front. It offered Tako tamago: baby octopus, simmered and glazed in soy sauce, with a hard-boiled quail’s egg stuffed into its head, served on a stick. Wash it down with a beer!
• Sawawa Japanese Matcha Sweets (抹茶スイーツ館 茶和々 錦店) 🗾. A sweets shop (wagashi), or traditional confections) displaying a pyramid of matcha-flavored warabi mochi. Their specialty is sweets made with Uji matcha.
• Nishiki Market KAI (錦市場 櫂 KAI) 🗾. A grocery store, where we bought Furikake.
• Tako to Highball (タコハイ京都錦市場店) 🗾. Takoyaki (fried dough balls with octopus inside).

After strolling the market, we set out to find lunch.