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Kiyomizu-yaki is a celebrated local style of ceramics that developed when Kyoto was flourishing ...
Most of the year, this is where geishas and maikos practice their routines; occasionally it ...
Double bills of second-run movies are the speciality of this half-century-old cinema, but in ...
This crash course in Japanese culture squeezes seven traditional art performances into less ...
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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 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. ...
Cotton wholesaler Eirakuya was established in 1615, and almost four centuries later, the ...
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