You don’t need to be a manga fan to be charmed by this vast but endearing museum, with a ...
The scenic garden of a World Heritage site is a wonderful backdrop to this eaterie. Guests sit ...
If you’re going to make a mockery of your favourite song, why not do so with smoke machines, ...
Kyoto’s first boutique hotel is a playground of modern design with 13 unique rooms from 13 ...
The Okura claims to be the oldest hotel in Kyoto, but since it was razed and rebuilt in the ...
Ryokan owners like to talk of their inns as family homes, and Yoshikawa may be the most ...
It’s Universal Studios with samurai but without the rides in this movie-set theme park from ...
Once a sake brewhouse, now one of the city’s most popular live venues, Taku Taku has hosted ...
The oldest and most famous of Myoshin-ji’s sub-temples is renowned for its tranquil gardens. A ...
The Ryoan-ji complex occupies 50 ha at the foot of the Kitayama mountains, but it’s famous for ...
The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...
Yoshihiro Murata is the Gordon Ramsay of Japanese cuisine. From TV shows to newspaper columns ...
Issen Yoshoku is a local legend. An oversized menu unfolds to offer just a single dish: a kind ...
One of Japan’s few celebrity chefs, and the only one known for Italian fare, Yasuhiro Sasajima ...
One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...
For people who take their clubbing seriously, here’s a big, black dancefloor with little to ...
The Kyoto brand Sou-Sou produces hip reinventions of Japanese workwear. The ground floor offers ...
This select gents’ fashion store stocks some of the hottest domestic brands, including the ...
If your friends back home won’t put up with receiving tourist tat as souvenirs, this is the ...
Approaching its 300th anniversary, this paper fan specialist stocks around 100 designs, ranging ...
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