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Kyoto’s biggest jazz club is a spartan black room with a schedule that veers from local student ...

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 ...

This time warp’s eerie blue lighting may not be to everyone’s taste, though it was installed on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...