One of the big names in Japanese tea.

Toyoaki Kuwayama, the son of a kimono-maker, launched the Kyoto Denim brand in 2008, and opened ...

This incense shop promotes lifestyle through scent, featuring new aromas of incense sticks ...

Kyoto's top shopping

Nowhere takes chopsticks more seriously than this tiny establishment. Ohashi Kobo creates ...

You will find better, more authentic handicrafts elsewhere, but nothing like the variety. This ...

The highlight of Kyoto’s street of antique stores is this enormous six-room townhouse, crammed ...

Bucking the trend of machiyas getting slick makeovers, the owners of this clothing store have ...

The granddaddy of shichimi (Japanese ‘seven spice’) shops has been trading here since the mid ...

Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...

Cotton wholesaler Eirakuya was established in 1615, and almost four centuries later, the ...

A manufacturer of parts for aircraft and bullet trains uses its metalwork expertise to produce ...

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

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 ...

The main branch of Osaka’s brash denim brand fits right into rowdy Kiyamachi. The two-tier ...

A textile-dyeing company with a history stretching back to 1919 runs the Pagong brand, best ...