Roger's Pictures

Muto City Bamboo Road

17 Jan 2026

It promised to get up into the 50s, so we headed to the Take no Michi or Bamboo Road in Muto City southwest of Kyoto, which runs past the Rakusai Bamboo Garden we'd visited in April 2025. The road runs for a couple of miles through bamboo groves that grow the regional specially of bamboo shoots. With fewer farmers, the groves and fences are now maintained by volunteers. There are 8 named fence styles along the path with brief descriptions on their origins. Unlike the hordes in the bamboo grove in Arashiyama, we generally had this path to ourselves!

backlit grasses	tended bamboo grove	Takehogaki fence of bundled bamboo branches	tended bamboo grove	tended bamboo grove
bamboo	edge of tended bamboo grove	tall cherry trees along the bamboo path	tended bamboo grove
	Kaguyagaki fence inspired by collar of 12-layer ceremonial kimono	Kaidogaki fence inspired by surging waves
	tended bamboo grove	tended bamboo grove	shadows	edge of tended bamboo grove
		cut bamboo branches for mending fences	distant mountains	broken fence and drying bamboo branches
distant mountains
	Teradogaki fence named after nearly town of Terado	Teradogaki fence named after nearly town of Terado	Mozumegaki fence inspired by walls of Mozume Castle	Teradogaki fence named after nearly town of Terado
Fukadagaki fence inspired by sparkling surface of nearby Fukada River
tended bamboo grove	berries along old fence
		tended bamboo grove	tended bamboo grove	tended bamboo grove
roots			Kofungaki in front of main part of ancient Terado Otsuka burial mound (kofun)
	shadows	untended bamboo grove	untended bamboo grove	side path
			Terado Cemetary	Terado Cemetary
	stack of bamboo

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