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 ...
One of the city’s top funk DJs works this little black and red bar, serving cheap drinks to a ...
Sake has fallen out of favour with Japan’s youth in recent years, but the young people running ...
This friendly restaurant on Pontocho provides glorious views of the Kamo river and serves ...
They call it ‘French kaiseki’, but the cuisine here is classic French - it’s the presentation ...
This sepia-lit dive is a vaguely Rolling Stones-themed bar (hence, apparently, the name - which ...
In the Edo period, kimono wearers stored their keepsakes inside small containers that hung from ...
Ignoring the Stax connotation, this vast club blasts contemporary R&B, hip hop and techno ...
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 ...
Chef Yukio Kato studied in Italy and returned with a culinary repertoire of top-end Tuscan ...
The speciality here is sumashi, a one-of-a-kind nouveau ramen garnished with quirky ingredients ...
This time warp’s eerie blue lighting may not be to everyone’s taste, though it was installed on ...
This tea salon dates from 1934, back when Kyoto was a centre of left-wing, anti-war politics. ...
A romantic Pontocho address plus Kyoto cuisine with a river view usually adds up to a steep ...
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