After visiting the Imperial Palace we are quite hungry and we are not sure where to find food. But actually finding lunch isn’t that different as the gift shop right next to the palace also a small restaurant where we eat a good and filling lunch before continuing on through the park.
The park actually was the private garden of the emperor previously but is now a public park even though you can still see the path that the emperor and foreign dignitaries were brought in. There are also mosquitoes here so we don’t linger and find a subway station so we can go to our next destination – Pontocho street.
Pontocho street is a narrow street running in parallel to the Kamo-gawa river with many traditional restaurants and shops and is quite famous.
We do some window shopping up and down the streets, mainly looking at restaurant dishes, before walking to the nearby arcade for a more modern take on shopping.
The arcade and shops are full of people which is a change from the park where there were relatively few people. We buy a few things before returning back to the subway that we take back to our hotel. On the way back we also do some supermarket shopping so we have provisions for the next days, we are now ready for Shikoku the next island we are going to visit.
