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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 ...

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

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 ...

The Sfera Building, designed by Swedish group Claesson Koivisto Rune in 2003, is an oasis of ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The name might suggest a corny revue, but Whoopee’s is actually a bunker for bands and DJs ...

Although the sign suggests that it’s a members-only bar, that’s just to prevent any straight ...

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

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