The building is a 19th-century kimono merchant’s house. The dining room looks onto a rock ...
If you want to explore sake but haven’t a clue where to begin, this is your place. The Israeli ...
Before the emperor moved to Tokyo, the palace grounds housed more than 200 estates for court ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Emperor Go-Mizuno retired in the 17th century, a new palace was constructed for him in the ...
Tea master Sen no Rikyu was one of the early admirers of raku-yaki, the ceramics of the Raku ...
You don’t need to be a manga fan to be charmed by this vast but endearing museum, with a ...
Although Kyoto held the imperial seat for more than a millennium, the ‘Old Imperial Palace’ ...
Kyoto-ites will argue about the best green tea, but elsewhere in Japan one brand reins supreme ...
This century-old building began life as a kimono store, but the interior was revamped in 2002, ...
Kyoto’s oldest Noh theatre was built in 1908, and had its last major refurbishment nine years ...
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 ...
In a delightful store with a small garden, kimono stylist Motoko Morita will help you team a ...
Rei Kawakubo designed this store, along with the avant-garde fashion that fills it. A curving ...
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