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

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 ...

Double bills of second-run movies are the speciality of this half-century-old cinema, but in ...

The name might suggest a corny revue, but Whoopee’s is actually a bunker for bands and DJs ...

The highlight of Kyoto’s street of antique stores is this enormous six-room townhouse, crammed ...

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 ...

Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...

Cotton wholesaler Eirakuya was established in 1615, and almost four centuries later, the ...

A manufacturer of parts for aircraft and bullet trains uses its metalwork expertise to produce ...

Like so many Kyoto restaurants, Yorozuya has built its business on the reputation of one ...

Tsujiri Honten used to be as famous for its queue as for its green tea and desserts. At peak ...

Everything about this beautiful restaurant is utterly Japanese, from the cushion seats to the ...

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

An American landscape designer used glistening pools, raked gravel, bamboo plants and other ...

For 300 years, this restaurant in Maruyama Park has survived on one simple recipe - cod and ...

Japan’s most Zen city still has several restaurants that serve the monks’ traditional meatless ...

A top sushi restaurant in a traditional Gion machiya is never going to be cheap, but at least ...