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If you want to explore sake but haven’t a clue where to begin, this is your place. The Israeli ...

For people who take their clubbing seriously, here’s a big, black dancefloor with little to ...

It’s not just green tea that gets the ceremonial treatment in Japan. The classical art of kodo ...

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 ...

Named after the local style of home cooking, Obanzai is almost a vegetarian restaurant (no ...

A temple that no gastronome should miss.

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’ ...

The Kongo Noh school, one of the nation’s big five, has been performing for 26 generations. ...

Kyoto-ites will argue about the best green tea, but elsewhere in Japan one brand reins supreme ...

Kyoto’s oldest Noh theatre was built in 1908, and had its last major refurbishment nine years ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s no a la carte menu here - you’ll get what you’re given, and like it. Take a seat at the ...