Toji Kobo Monthly Market ★ 4.5
Monthly market on the 21st at Toji Temple in Kyoto, the city's most-loved food market. 1,200 stalls; pickles, sake, wagashi and street snacks fill the temple.
Kamogawa Kawayuka Season is a food festival in Kyoto.
Editorially verified June 1, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: Kamogawa River banks, Pontocho and Kiyamachi, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
Monthly market on the 21st at Toji Temple in Kyoto, the city's most-loved food market. 1,200 stalls; pickles, sake, wagashi and street snacks fill the temple.
Japan's most famous festival, July in Kyoto since 869. Yamaboko Junko float parades July 17 and 24; yoiyama evenings of yatai food stalls in Nakagyo nights.
The Hollyhock Festival in Kyoto, dating to the 6th century and held annually May 15, runs a Heian-court procession from the Imperial Palace to Kamo Shrines.
Kyoto's Festival of Ages, October 22 each year since 1895. 2,000-strong period-costumed procession from the Imperial Palace to Heian Shrine with food stalls.
Kyoto's biggest Setsubun bean-throwing festival, early February each year at Yoshida-jinja. Roasted soybean and amazake stalls line the shrine grounds.
Kyoto Marathon weekend food village at Heian Shrine in mid-February. Kyoto street food and matcha stalls open for race spectators alongside the finish line.