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Kyoto’s first boutique hotel is a playground of modern design with 13 unique rooms from 13 ...

Kyoto’s most foreigner-friendly ryokan has English-speaking staff who can point guests in the ...

Ryokan owners like to talk of their inns as family homes, and Yoshikawa may be the most ...

For the last five years, the Iori company has been turning classic townhouses into luxury ...

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

It’s Universal Studios with samurai but without the rides in this movie-set theme park from ...

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

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

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 ...

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

This crash course in Japanese culture squeezes seven traditional art performances into less ...

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 ...

Gion’s best cocktail bars often serve up frosty receptions to foreign faces. Satonaka doesn’t. ...

Lacquerware brand Oku launched in 2006 with a range of voluptuous designs that fuse traditional ...

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 ...

Subterranean stone arches, rattling bass and high-octane lights are hardly an original formula ...