Cycling Fushimi Canal Kyoto

伏見運河宇治川

Close to the Gekkeikan Museum and brewery, in Fushimi south Kyoto, is an elegant canal.

It snakes its way near several of the area's sake breweries.

In the past the canal was built so that boats carrying the sake to Kyoto, Uji, and Osaka, could sidle right up to the breweries.

Today it is possible to take a ride on canal.

The area has other sites as well, many of them related to Sakamoto Ryoma, a 19th-century revolutionary who was nearly assassinated at the nearbyTeradaya Inn.

Today the inn is a museum.

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Fushimi Canal

伏見運河

In the southern end of Fushimi, in deep south Kyoto, a narrow canal runs close to several of the sake breweries.

In days of old, this canal was used by barges that moved the barrels of sake north to Kyoto and south to Osaka.

Today the canal has tourist boats, tied to the sides of the canal.

The canal is lined with cherry trees and a short walk from the Gekkeikan Museum.

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