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 ...
Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...
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. ...
Shinbashi Dori is one of Kyoto’s most romantic streets, lined with quaint wooden buildings, ...
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 ...
You probably didn’t come to Kyoto for rococo European architecture, but the style of this ...
Kodai-ji’s next-door neighbour is a 24m-high concrete bodhisattva that towers over a small ...
If you only visit one temple in Kyoto, make it this World Heritage behemoth. From the balcony ...
The granddaddy of shichimi (Japanese ‘seven spice’) shops has been trading here since the mid ...
A manufacturer of parts for aircraft and bullet trains uses its metalwork expertise to produce ...
The main reason to visit the old home of Yasuyuki Namikawa (1845-1927) is to see examples of ...
Chourakukan is best known as a historic dining complex that serves European fare in Rococo and ...
In a city packed with picturesque places to stay, Ayado is an odd proposition: two rooms in a ...
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 ...
Double bills of second-run movies are the speciality of this half-century-old cinema, but in ...
This crash course in Japanese culture squeezes seven traditional art performances into less ...
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