Kuromon Market
Century-old covered fish and food arcade of some one hundred fifty stalls, now packed with street-eating tourists.
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This guide to Kuromon Market in Osaka traces its start around 1822 as a humble fish market by the gate of the temple Enmyoji, through its rise as the city's kitchen by 1902, to the pandemic that emptied its aisles overnight. You'll hear how vendors who had inherited their stalls from their parents wondered whether the market would survive, and how the crowds that eventually returned changed who the market serves. The guide follows land prices and shopper habits around the market since then.
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