The highlight of Kyoto’s street of antique stores is this enormous six-room townhouse, crammed ...
In a city packed with picturesque places to stay, Ayado is an odd proposition: two rooms in a ...
Double bills of second-run movies are the speciality of this half-century-old cinema, but in ...
Bucking the trend of machiyas getting slick makeovers, the owners of this clothing store have ...
The granddaddy of shichimi (Japanese ‘seven spice’) shops has been trading here since the mid ...
Cotton wholesaler Eirakuya was established in 1615, and almost four centuries later, the ...
The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...
An American landscape designer used glistening pools, raked gravel, bamboo plants and other ...
Yoshihiro Murata is the Gordon Ramsay of Japanese cuisine. From TV shows to newspaper columns ...
Issen Yoshoku is a local legend. An oversized menu unfolds to offer just a single dish: a kind ...
Dining with maiko is a typical Kyoto experience that few visitors get to try. Securing their ...
One of Japan’s few celebrity chefs, and the only one known for Italian fare, Yasuhiro Sasajima ...
A monzeki temple, meaning the head priest has to be of imperial blood, Shoren-in has been home ...
Kodai-ji’s next-door neighbour is a 24m-high concrete bodhisattva that towers over a small ...
The main reason to visit the old home of Yasuyuki Namikawa (1845-1927) is to see examples of ...
Check the artwork in the entrance to see whether the current exhibition at this five-floor ...
One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...
The entrance to Chion-in, the head temple of Buddhism’s Jodo sect, is as imposing as it is ...
Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...
Chourakukan is best known as a historic dining complex that serves European fare in Rococo and ...
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