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 ...
Gion’s best cocktail bars often serve up frosty receptions to foreign faces. Satonaka doesn’t. ...
Everything about this beautiful restaurant is utterly Japanese, from the cushion seats to the ...
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, ...
An American landscape designer used glistening pools, raked gravel, bamboo plants and other ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dining with maiko is a typical Kyoto experience that few visitors get to try. Securing their ...
When the summer humidity kicks in, the Japanese scoff eels for a stamina boost. Most places ...
One of Japan’s few celebrity chefs, and the only one known for Italian fare, Yasuhiro Sasajima ...
You probably didn’t come to Kyoto for rococo European architecture, but the style of this ...
On your pilgrimage to the nearby mega-temples, stop here for some uniquely Japanese desserts. ...
Before there was Kyoto, there was Gion Temple, established in 656. By the mid tenth century, ...
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