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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...

Top local designers and architects turn their hands to Disney merchandise.

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

Lacquerware brand Oku launched in 2006 with a range of voluptuous designs that fuse traditional ...

One of Japan’s few celebrity chefs, and the only one known for Italian fare, Yasuhiro Sasajima ...

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple has been deemed the city’s ...

Like a B-lister’s house on the Hollywood Homes Tour, this temple struggles to impress amid such ...

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

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

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