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Walks in Pontocho.
One walking route through Pontocho — a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk — plus nearby routes for the same morning.
Nearby
Other walks close to Pontocho.
Sorted by distance from the start of pontocho and kiyamachi: the lantern lanes. Good for stitching together a longer day.
heritagequirky2.7 km · 70 min · Easy· Claude-drafted
Gion: the lanes and the willows
Hanami-koji's teahouses, the willow-lined Shirakawa canal, and the shrine the district grew around.
marketfood-forward2.7 km · 75 min · Easy· Claude-drafted
Nishiki Market and the downtown arcades
Kyoto's kitchen, the covered market, the Teramachi arcades, and a shrine for scholars.
architectureheritage3 km · 80 min · Easy· Claude-drafted
Karasuma-Oike and the merchant machiya
The old merchant grid — surviving townhouses, a brick former bank, and the sake and textile shop-fronts.
monumentalparkland3.4 km · 85 min · Easy· Claude-drafted
Northern Higashiyama: the great torii and the canal
A giant vermilion torii, the Okazaki museums, and the canal that climbs to Nanzen-ji.