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From wireless internet to shoe-dryers to two fully equipped kitchens, this backpacker hostel ...

The Granvia has one great advantage to brag about, over other hotels: most of the city’s buses, ...

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 ...

This temple, south-west of Kyoto Station, boasts one of Japan’s top-rated Zen gardens, as well ...

Perhaps the greatest garden in Kyoto. As you stroll through the 7ha site, an enchanting ...

You may have seen the photographs of Fushimi Inari, but you won’t be prepared for the scale of ...

Free of fences or cages, this animal-friendly park has almost 200 wild macaques (snow monkeys) ...

Technically it’s a sento (Japanese bathhouse) rather than an onsen (hot spring) since the heat ...

Kyoto’s most attractive live venue opened back in 1973, in what was once a sake brewery. And it ...

For martial art fans or wannabe warriors, this is where you’ll find all the swords, knives, gi, ...

The scenic garden of a World Heritage site is a wonderful backdrop to this eaterie. Guests sit ...

Crypto-Christian artworks and the Jesuit bell of Kyoto’s first church are the unlikely ...

The Ryoan-ji complex occupies 50 ha at the foot of the Kitayama mountains, but it’s famous for ...

The most sought-after seats in Kyoto are found at the eponymous kaiseki restaurant of Hisao ...

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and since the 14th century Nanzen-ji has been rated the ...

While Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion lives up to its dazzling name, Ginkaku-ji (the Silver ...

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