Take-no-michi 竹の径
Eighteen hundred metres between bamboo fences woven by hand in eight designs.
A road of about 1,800 metres that cuts through the bamboo groves on the Mukō hill, lined with eight types of woven bamboo fence: takeho-gaki, kofun-gaki, terado-gaki, mozume-gaki, kaguya-gaki, raigōji-gaki, fukada-gaki and kaidō-gaki. Work began in fiscal year 2000. The route has received the ministerial award 手づくり郷土賞 and is on the list of the ‘five hundred beautiful roads of Japan that make you want to walk’. Every year in October the lantern illumination 竹の径・かぐやの夕べ is held.
Kyoto
Higashi-muko
