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Il Ghiottone Cucineria

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

The main branch of Il Ghiottone is famously booked up weeks in advance. In 2008, chef Sasajima ...

A Womb

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

A restaurant this far from the action needs to be special to survive. A Womb’s formula is ...

Toji

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

World Heritage site Toji is best known for its landmark pagoda, Japan’s tallest, but is also ...

Tofuku-ji

Recommended
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

This temple, south-west of Kyoto Station, boasts one of Japan’s top-rated Zen gardens, as well ...

Suntory Yamazaki Whisky Distillery

FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Japanese whisky has been booming in the last decade, winning medals and market share worldwide. ...

Shugaku-in Rikyu

FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Emperor Go-mizuno abdicated his throne at the tender age of 34 to focus on aesthetic pursuits, ...

Miho Museum

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

One of the tenets of the ‘new religion’ Church of World Messianity is that art and beauty can ...

Kyoto Botanical Garden

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

In any other city this would be a major attraction: 12,000 plants occupying 24ha, with ...

Koke-dera (Saiho-ji)

Recommended Major venue
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

This major league attraction doesn’t make things easy for visitors. You’ll need to apply in ...

Katsura Rikyu

Recommended FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Perhaps the greatest garden in Kyoto. As you stroll through the 7ha site, an enchanting ...

Kamigamo Jinja

FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Even though it’s a trek to reach from the city centre, this World Heritage site is worth the ...

Fushimi Inari Taisha

Recommended FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

You may have seen the photographs of Fushimi Inari, but you won’t be prepared for the scale of ...

Daitoku-ji

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Like so much of Kyoto, Zen temple Daitoku-ji was destroyed in the Onin War (1467-77). The monk ...

Hozu River Boats

Art & Leisure  |  Sep 22 2009

Take the aptly named Sagano Scenic Railway from Saga Torokko Station (adjacent to JR Saga ...

Yoshimura

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

You’ll want a window seat here. With Mount Arashi in the background and the Togetsu Bridge ...

Shigetsu

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

‘Eat to live, don’t live to eat,’ says the pamphlet of this Zen restaurant in the garden of ...

Sagano-yu

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

Showerheads line the ceramic walls of this bathhouse-turned-cafe that teams non-slip mats, ...

Le Plat Plus

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

Just far enough from the tourist trail to keep the hordes away, but always packed with locals, ...

Nishiki

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

As you arrive at this riverside restaurant, you’ll notice that the stone entrance is wet, ...

Kitcho

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

This is often described as Kyoto’s most exclusive restaurant, but it’s only the cost that keeps ...

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