To-ji Temple Kobo-san Market

Friday was a trip to the market at the To-ji temple. This is held every month on the 21st.

Full of lots of small stalls of people selling second-hand kimonos, pottery, odds and ends, things others might consider as rubbish, etc etc.

Two of the girls got kimonos, really lovely. If you have the time and patience you can find one to your liking for even as little as 9 pounds...not of the best quality but lovely anyway. There are some really beautiful ones to be found for a bit more money too. Some of the patterns and textiles are just incredible.

There are plenty of food stalls too, which we had to take advantage of. Yummy sweet potato with sugar on... I also sampled a kind-of pancake sandwich thing with custard inside, tasty!

Although there were quite a lot of foreigners around, we were quite a highlight for the locals, these two ladies had to take pictures of us:

And were quite interested in me (no idea why, was quite odd!) and even followed us around taking snaps of us! A little creepy, definitely know I would not like to be famous... but they were quite sweet anyway.

Although I didn´t buy anything except food, I really liked some of the stuff they had, it is great to look at what people think might be worth to sell, and what people actually buy.

Japanese toys

There are other markets in Kyoto, so will definitely be going again, see if I can pick up a bargain.