Every month on the 21st a huge market is held in the grounds of Toji Temple. Vendors set up their stalls starting at 6am. I've never been there that early, but one of my friends sells artwork there sometimes. There are food stalls and all kinds of crafts, antiques, junk, and vintage kimonos.
I've bought several kimonos there. I also bought my favorite bowl for just two hundred yen (It often appears in the photographs on my food blog.) My other Toji Market purchases include a head-scarf, dried fruit, fresh ginger root, and a pot plant.
The absolute strangest thing I saw there was a snake in a jar of alcohol. The alcohol is meant for drinking, not just to preserve the snake specimen. Someone told me it's an Okinawan thing. I wanted to take a photo, but the vendor wasn't happy about it.
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