TOKYO/KYOTO -- Yuko Kato, a 50-year-old housewife, was raised in Kyoto and has lived there all her life. Going to the 1,300-year-old Nishiki Market, known as "Kyoto's Kitchen," to buy fish, pickles and seasonings used to be a weekly habit for her, but that has changed over the past five years.
Tourists stream through the iconic torii gates of Fushimi Inari shrine, in Kyoto in March. Foreign visitors to the city jumped more than fivefold between 2012 and 2017. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
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