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

The most welcoming gay bar in Kyoto is a Barbarella-meets-Fisher Price lounge that thrives on ...

Bucking the trend of machiyas getting slick makeovers, the owners of this clothing store have ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Dining with maiko is a typical Kyoto experience that few visitors get to try. Securing their ...

Check the artwork in the entrance to see whether the current exhibition at this five-floor ...

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

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

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

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

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

Yoshihiro Murata is the Gordon Ramsay of Japanese cuisine. From TV shows to newspaper columns ...

Before there was Kyoto, there was Gion Temple, established in 656. By the mid tenth century, ...

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 ...