One of Pontocho’s newest faces, Kuro opened in summer 2008 and hit all the right notes from the ...
This sepia-lit dive is a vaguely Rolling Stones-themed bar (hence, apparently, the name - which ...
A year after it opened, Cafe La Siesta hosted a performance by a musician who used vintage ...
The proprietor also owns part of a mountain, and has used the timber he has sourced there to ...
If you’re going to make a mockery of your favourite song, why not do so with smoke machines, ...
Built by starchitect Kengo Kuma, Cocon Karasuma is filled with design-related concept stores ...
Acoustic, folk and pop shows dominate the schedule at this light, airy live venue that could do ...
There’s an unusual entrance policy at this black basement box: foreigners get in free so long ...
Jazz joints are intimate in Kyoto, but there’s nowhere quite like this skinny bar. At a push, ...
It began life as a skater-influenced streetwear boutique, but this store has soared upmarket ...
The Kyoto brand Sou-Sou produces hip reinventions of Japanese workwear. The ground floor offers ...
The city’s hippest boutique occupies the second floor of a Tadao Ando building, selling designs ...
A textile-dyeing company with a history stretching back to 1919 runs the Pagong brand, best ...
This select gents’ fashion store stocks some of the hottest domestic brands, including the ...
One of Teramachi’s oldest tenants, this store first opened for business in 1663. It stocks a ...
If your friends back home won’t put up with receiving tourist tat as souvenirs, this is the ...
Karakami is the traditional woodblock-printed washi paper that adorns some of Japan’s poshest ...
In the remnants of a building by Tatsuno Kingo, the architect of Tokyo Station and the Bank of ...
Tea bowls priced from ¥2,000 to ¥50,000 (try to spot the difference), colourful tea caddies and ...
This select shop for B-boys likes its clothing bold, colourful and plastered with slogans. It ...
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