Run by the same folks as Kyoto’s Lab Tribe, Triangle is a cosy three-storey club with a rooftop ...
There was a time when Osakans travelled to Kyoto for clubbing. Now, it’s the other way around, ...
Once a sake brewhouse, now one of the city’s most popular live venues, Taku Taku has hosted ...
Kyoto’s most attractive live venue opened back in 1973, in what was once a sake brewery. And it ...
One night it’s a rock bar, the next it’s a jazz club, or perhaps a house of blues. Zac Baran ...
When it opened in 1990, Metro was the only choice for serious clubbers in Kyoto or Osaka. These ...
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 most welcoming gay bar in Kyoto is a Barbarella-meets-Fisher Price lounge that thrives on ...
This 40-seater live music venue is incredibly intimate, if a bit sterile. It feels like the ...
For people who take their clubbing seriously, here’s a big, black dancefloor with little to ...
Subterranean stone arches, rattling bass and high-octane lights are hardly an original formula ...
This avant-garde venue puts on entertainment ranging from local noise bands to an abstract mime ...
Ignoring the Stax connotation, this vast club blasts contemporary R&B, hip hop and techno ...
Tatsufumi ‘Nick’ Yamamoto was a nuclear power plant worker who quit his job when he found ...
Kyoto’s biggest jazz club is a spartan black room with a schedule that veers from local student ...
This long black room began life as a members-only club and home of DJ legends Kyoto Jazz ...
If you’re going to make a mockery of your favourite song, why not do so with smoke machines, ...
Acoustic, folk and pop shows dominate the schedule at this light, airy live venue that could do ...
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