It’s less mesmerising than most of its World Heritage peers, but this shrine is historic ...
Built in 1603 as the Kyoto stronghold of shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, Nijo Castle occupies vast ...
Although Kyoto held the imperial seat for more than a millennium, the ‘Old Imperial Palace’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Before the emperor moved to Tokyo, the palace grounds housed more than 200 estates for court ...
This 40-seater live music venue is incredibly intimate, if a bit sterile. It feels like the ...
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 ...
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