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Chourakukan is best known as a historic dining complex that serves European fare in Rococo and ...

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple has been deemed the city’s ...

In a city packed with picturesque places to stay, Ayado is an odd proposition: two rooms in a ...

Lacquerware brand Oku launched in 2006 with a range of voluptuous designs that fuse traditional ...

Shinbashi Dori is one of Kyoto’s most romantic streets, lined with quaint wooden buildings, ...

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 ...

When the summer humidity kicks in, the Japanese scoff eels for a stamina boost. Most places ...

Before there was Kyoto, there was Gion Temple, established in 656. By the mid tenth century, ...

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 ...

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 ...

After visiting Kodai-ji, step across the street to see Entoku-in, a sub-temple that for 19 ...

Known locally as ‘Ebessan’, this shrine was established in 1202 as a guardian of Kennin-ji. It ...

For two weeks every April, the Miyagawa-cho geisha troupe stages its annual Kyo Odori show ...

When Tokyo’s Kabukiza theatre is demolished in 2010, the Minamiza will be unrivalled as the ...

Kiyomizu-yaki is a celebrated local style of ceramics that developed when Kyoto was flourishing ...

Most of the year, this is where geishas and maikos practice their routines; occasionally it ...