If you’re going to make a mockery of your favourite song, why not do so with smoke machines, ...
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 ...
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 ...
This neighbourhood has changed dramatically during the century since Funahashiya opened, with a ...
This small room was originally the tearoom of the adjoining Yoshikawa ryokan, but became a ...
This cosy tempura restaurant comes from the people behind the Tawaraya ryokan. Guests of the ...
The hallowed green tea meets modern cafe culture.
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