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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 ...

Tea master Sen no Rikyu was one of the early admirers of raku-yaki, the ceramics of the Raku ...

In a delightful store with a small garden, kimono stylist Motoko Morita will help you team a ...

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 ...

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

Chef Yoshimi Tanigawa made a national splash with a 2001 triumph on the Iron Chef TV show. His ...

Kyoto’s oldest soba restaurant began life in 1465 as a confectionery store. Gradually, its ...

Mr Sawaguchi was 55 years old when he wound down the family greengrocer business and converted ...

When Emperor Go-Mizuno retired in the 17th century, a new palace was constructed for him in the ...

Although Kyoto held the imperial seat for more than a millennium, the ‘Old Imperial Palace’ ...

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. ...

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. ...

Rei Kawakubo designed this store, along with the avant-garde fashion that fills it. A curving ...