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Prince Charles once dined at this historic shabu shabu restaurant. It’s one of several ...

Issen Yoshoku is a local legend. An oversized menu unfolds to offer just a single dish: a kind ...

For 300 years, this restaurant in Maruyama Park has survived on one simple recipe - cod and ...

Japan’s most Zen city still has several restaurants that serve the monks’ traditional meatless ...

A top sushi restaurant in a traditional Gion machiya is never going to be cheap, but at least ...

Dining with maiko is a typical Kyoto experience that few visitors get to try. Securing their ...

When the summer humidity kicks in, the Japanese scoff eels for a stamina boost. Most places ...

One of Japan’s few celebrity chefs, and the only one known for Italian fare, Yasuhiro Sasajima ...

You probably didn’t come to Kyoto for rococo European architecture, but the style of this ...

On your pilgrimage to the nearby mega-temples, stop here for some uniquely Japanese desserts. ...

Before there was Kyoto, there was Gion Temple, established in 656. By the mid tenth century, ...

A monzeki temple, meaning the head priest has to be of imperial blood, Shoren-in has been home ...

This museum covers the characters and details of the Meiji Restoration, when the Shogunate was ...

Kodai-ji’s next-door neighbour is a 24m-high concrete bodhisattva that towers over a small ...

The main reason to visit the old home of Yasuyuki Namikawa (1845-1927) is to see examples of ...

Though best known for a shidarezakura (weeping cherry tree) that lures visitors galore in ...

Check the artwork in the entrance to see whether the current exhibition at this five-floor ...

When Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the warrior who unified Japan, died in 1598, his grieving widow Nene ...

If you only visit one temple in Kyoto, make it this World Heritage behemoth. From the balcony ...