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A monzeki temple, meaning the head priest has to be of imperial blood, Shoren-in has been home ...

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple has been deemed the city’s ...

Samurai helmets, swords and body armour are crammed into a huge townhouse in backstreet Gion. ...

One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...

Kyoto’s oldest Noh theatre was built in 1908, and had its last major refurbishment nine years ...

The Kongo Noh school, one of the nation’s big five, has been performing for 26 generations. ...

For people who take their clubbing seriously, here’s a big, black dancefloor with little to ...

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 ...

If you want to explore sake but haven’t a clue where to begin, this is your place. The Israeli ...

The building is a 19th-century kimono merchant’s house. The dining room looks onto a rock ...

A temple that no gastronome should miss.

Top-grade Japanese beef usually commands sky-high prices, but Hafuu is run by a veteran Kyoto ...

You don’t need to be a manga fan to be charmed by this vast but endearing museum, with a ...

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 ...

Tatsufumi ‘Nick’ Yamamoto was a nuclear power plant worker who quit his job when he found ...

This long black room began life as a members-only club and home of DJ legends Kyoto Jazz ...

Izakayas are traditionally rowdy, low-brow joints with a fondness for fried food. Uroco is one ...