Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple, Pottery Market on Gojo Street, and Fruits Sandwich

Today, August 10 was the last day of Rokudo-mairi and the pottery market on the Gojo Street. Rokudo-mairi is one of the events of Bon .
Bon or Obon(August 13～16) is the period to welcome our  ancestor’s spirits, and most of Japanese take long holidays for family gathering or to go traveling.
In Kyoto, many people go to Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple to do welcoming-ancestors-event； getting Koyamaki(green leaves branch), writing ancestors’ names, ringing a bell,etc.

These are called Rokudo-mairi.
I went to Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple for the first time. This time I couldn’t join the event because I didn’t understand the rule. So I only prayed in front of the temple and went to the pottery market.

On the way to the Gojo Street, there is Rokuhara-Mitsuji Temple.

There is a candy shop near Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple. I bought a pack of Yurei Kosodate-ame(a ghost mother’s candy to bring up a child ). The name of this candy came  from a sad story of a mother. She died when she delivered a baby. As she couldn't give her baby her breast milk and wanted to give her baby nutrition, she became a ghost and went to buy candies everyday  to give them
to her baby and brought up her baby.
After 20 minutes walk, I got to Gojo-zaka, the road to Kiyomizu Temple.
Kiyomizu Temple is a very famous tourist destination, but I didn't visit there because
today’s my purpose was visiting the pottery market. It was held on the sidewalk on the Gojo Street near Gojo-zaka.

I bought two cups at this shop.
I went back to Randen Shijo Omiya Station
and bought fruits sandwiches at a fruits shop, Yaoiso. Fruits sandwiches were very delicious.

I got on the Randen train at Omiya Station and went home.