Kamigamo Shrine
- Food
- Demachi Futaba’s mame mochi
- Sports
- A university match near Kitaōji
Crowd level: Easy. Busy only at the obvious hour
Best season Morning, outside the May festival unless the festival is why you came. Weekdays in winter are nearly empty and very fine.
Kamigamo is one of the city’s oldest shrines, with a wide gravel approach and two sand cones that look like abstract art and are older than that idea. It is usually calmer than the torii tunnel. Go when the festival is not the reason.
The short version
Kamigamo Jinja, with Shimogamo, is a UNESCO site and a guardian of the city’s north. The shrine predates the capital’s grid. Aoi Matsuri in May fills it with purpose. Any other morning, the gravel is the sound of the visit.
Food nearby
Demachi Futaba’s mame mochi
After the shrine, eat toward Demachiyanagi. Demachi Futaba’s bean mochi is a sweet the neighborhood queues for, briefly and honestly. A soba shop nearby is the meal if you need one.
A game nearby
A university match near Kitaōji
Northern campuses are close. A posted university game beats a pro baseball night in Osaka. If nothing is on, the gravel walk was the exercise.
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