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Kashogama Pottery School

Art & Leisure  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Gion Kobu Kaburenjo

Art & Leisure  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Mamekichi Honpo

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Shops  |  Sep 22 2009

Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...

Art Yoshikiri

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Shops  |  Sep 22 2009

The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...

Sfera Bar Satonaka

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Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

Gion’s best cocktail bars often serve up frosty receptions to foreign faces. Satonaka doesn’t. ...

Loop Salon

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Junidanya Honten

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Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

Prince Charles once dined at this historic shabu shabu restaurant. It’s one of several ...

Issen Yoshoku

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Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

Issen Yoshoku is a local legend. An oversized menu unfolds to offer just a single dish: a kind ...

Chourakukan

Restaurants & Cafés  |  Sep 22 2009

You probably didn’t come to Kyoto for rococo European architecture, but the style of this ...

Ryozen Kannon

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Kodai-ji’s next-door neighbour is a 24m-high concrete bodhisattva that towers over a small ...

Kiyomizu-dera

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Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

If you only visit one temple in Kyoto, make it this World Heritage behemoth. From the balcony ...

Shichimiya

Shops  |  Sep 22 2009

The granddaddy of shichimi (Japanese ‘seven spice’) shops has been trading here since the mid ...

Aero Concept

Shops  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Namikawa Cloisonné Museum of Kyoto

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

The main reason to visit the old home of Yasuyuki Namikawa (1845-1927) is to see examples of ...

Chourakukan Hotel

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Hotels  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Ayado

Hotels  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Miyagawa-cho Kaburenjo

Art & Leisure  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Minamiza

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Art & Leisure  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Gion Kaikan

Art & Leisure  |  Sep 22 2009

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

Gion Corner

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Art & Leisure  |  Sep 22 2009

This crash course in Japanese culture squeezes seven traditional art performances into less ...

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