For martial art fans or wannabe warriors, this is where you’ll find all the swords, knives, gi, ...

The Sfera Building, designed by Swedish group Claesson Koivisto Rune in 2003, is an oasis of ...

Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...

Top local designers and architects turn their hands to Disney merchandise.

The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The decor is so dazzling that it’s hard to focus on the clothes at this gargantuan boutique. ...

Approaching its 300th anniversary, this paper fan specialist stocks around 100 designs, ranging ...

Filling in gaping holes on the fashion scene in Kyoto, this vast concrete store opened in late ...