Although Kyoto held the imperial seat for more than a millennium, the ‘Old Imperial Palace’ ...
Although this single-room museum contains just a handful of exhibits, it’s a free and fun ...
Subterranean stone arches, rattling bass and high-octane lights are hardly an original formula ...
This avant-garde venue puts on entertainment ranging from local noise bands to an abstract mime ...
Ignoring the Stax connotation, this vast club blasts contemporary R&B, hip hop and techno ...
Tatsufumi ‘Nick’ Yamamoto was a nuclear power plant worker who quit his job when he found ...
Kyoto’s biggest jazz club is a spartan black room with a schedule that veers from local student ...
This long black room began life as a members-only club and home of DJ legends Kyoto Jazz ...
The main branch of Osaka’s brash denim brand fits right into rowdy Kiyamachi. The two-tier ...
Grilled chicken liver is the most popular dish here, but most other bits of the bird are also ...
Izakayas are traditionally rowdy, low-brow joints with a fondness for fried food. Uroco is one ...
One of the city’s top funk DJs works this little black and red bar, serving cheap drinks to a ...
Chef Yukio Kato studied in Italy and returned with a culinary repertoire of top-end Tuscan ...
The speciality here is sumashi, a one-of-a-kind nouveau ramen garnished with quirky ingredients ...
This time warp’s eerie blue lighting may not be to everyone’s taste, though it was installed on ...
Sake has fallen out of favour with Japan’s youth in recent years, but the young people running ...
This friendly restaurant on Pontocho provides glorious views of the Kamo river and serves ...
This tea salon dates from 1934, back when Kyoto was a centre of left-wing, anti-war politics. ...
They call it ‘French kaiseki’, but the cuisine here is classic French - it’s the presentation ...
A romantic Pontocho address plus Kyoto cuisine with a river view usually adds up to a steep ...
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