自転車で京都堀川通りの横へ日本語ご希望の方。
This Kyoto cycling route is short, sweet and, if you look down, scenic.
Horikawa, a large north-south boulevard in Kyoto, has had a canal running parallel to it for hundreds of years.
By the 1950s, the river/canal had become a bubbling polluted slow-moving body of water. The culprit(s) was dyeing. Workers from nearby Nishijin, the center of Kyoto's weaving industry, used to use the river to rinse dyes from cloth in the river.
The river has been cleaned up and planted.
For cyclists though the real attraction is the road that runs above and to the east of it (to the left in the photo), which is smooth sailing from Imadegawa all the way down to Oike. Few cars use this road.
Ride Horikawa Kyoto ride.
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