Kiyomizu-yaki is a celebrated local style of ceramics that developed when Kyoto was flourishing ...
The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...
Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...
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 name might suggest a corny revue, but Whoopee’s is actually a bunker for bands and DJs ...
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 ...
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 ...
Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...
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 ...
Kodai-ji’s next-door neighbour is a 24m-high concrete bodhisattva that towers over a small ...
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 ...
The granddaddy of shichimi (Japanese ‘seven spice’) shops has been trading here since the mid ...
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 ...
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