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Samurai helmets, swords and body armour are crammed into a huge townhouse in backstreet Gion. ...

Textiles, video art, installations, sculpture and even paintings are shown at this three-room ...

One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...

After visiting Kodai-ji, step across the street to see Entoku-in, a sub-temple that for 19 ...

Known locally as ‘Ebessan’, this shrine was established in 1202 as a guardian of Kennin-ji. It ...

Like a B-lister’s house on the Hollywood Homes Tour, this temple struggles to impress amid such ...

The entrance to Chion-in, the head temple of Buddhism’s Jodo sect, is as imposing as it is ...

Kyoto’s oldest Noh theatre was built in 1908, and had its last major refurbishment nine years ...

Before the emperor moved to Tokyo, the palace grounds housed more than 200 estates for court ...

The Kongo Noh school, one of the nation’s big five, has been performing for 26 generations. ...

This 40-seater live music venue is incredibly intimate, if a bit sterile. It feels like the ...

For people who take their clubbing seriously, here’s a big, black dancefloor with little to ...

It’s not just green tea that gets the ceremonial treatment in Japan. The classical art of kodo ...

Women are spoiled for choice when buying kimono in Kyoto; men have to look a little harder. The ...

In a delightful store with a small garden, kimono stylist Motoko Morita will help you team a ...

When Japan hosted the 2008 G8 Summit, the leaders’ wives all received a Kanoko kimono sash. ...

Kyoto designer Masaki Tokuda has a fascination with faces, adding smiles and sulks to ...

Kyoto-ites will argue about the best green tea, but elsewhere in Japan one brand reins supreme ...

Rei Kawakubo designed this store, along with the avant-garde fashion that fills it. A curving ...