If you only visit one temple in Kyoto, make it this World Heritage behemoth. From the balcony ...
Chourakukan is best known as a historic dining complex that serves European fare in Rococo and ...
When Tokyo’s Kabukiza theatre is demolished in 2010, the Minamiza will be unrivalled as the ...
This crash course in Japanese culture squeezes seven traditional art performances into less ...
Although the sign suggests that it’s a members-only bar, that’s just to prevent any straight ...
The most welcoming gay bar in Kyoto is a Barbarella-meets-Fisher Price lounge that thrives on ...
The Sfera Building, designed by Swedish group Claesson Koivisto Rune in 2003, is an oasis of ...
Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...
Top local designers and architects turn their hands to Disney merchandise.
The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...
Gion’s best cocktail bars often serve up frosty receptions to foreign faces. Satonaka doesn’t. ...
Lacquerware brand Oku launched in 2006 with a range of voluptuous designs that fuse traditional ...
Yoshihiro Murata is the Gordon Ramsay of Japanese cuisine. From TV shows to newspaper columns ...
Prince Charles once dined at this historic shabu shabu restaurant. It’s one of several ...
Issen Yoshoku is a local legend. An oversized menu unfolds to offer just a single dish: a kind ...
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 ...
Japan loves to rank its attractions, and Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple has been deemed the city’s ...
Samurai helmets, swords and body armour are crammed into a huge townhouse in backstreet Gion. ...
One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...
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