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Women are spoiled for choice when buying kimono in Kyoto; men have to look a little harder. The ...

In a delightful store with a small garden, kimono stylist Motoko Morita will help you team a ...

If you want to explore sake but haven’t a clue where to begin, this is your place. The Israeli ...

The building is a 19th-century kimono merchant’s house. The dining room looks onto a rock ...

A temple that no gastronome should miss.

Top-grade Japanese beef usually commands sky-high prices, but Hafuu is run by a veteran Kyoto ...

It’s less mesmerising than most of its World Heritage peers, but this shrine is historic ...

You don’t need to be a manga fan to be charmed by this vast but endearing museum, with a ...

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 ...

Tatsufumi ‘Nick’ Yamamoto was a nuclear power plant worker who quit his job when he found ...

This long black room began life as a members-only club and home of DJ legends Kyoto Jazz ...

Izakayas are traditionally rowdy, low-brow joints with a fondness for fried food. Uroco is one ...

One of the city’s top funk DJs works this little black and red bar, serving cheap drinks to a ...

Sake has fallen out of favour with Japan’s youth in recent years, but the young people running ...

This friendly restaurant on Pontocho provides glorious views of the Kamo river and serves ...

They call it ‘French kaiseki’, but the cuisine here is classic French - it’s the presentation ...

This sepia-lit dive is a vaguely Rolling Stones-themed bar (hence, apparently, the name - which ...

If you’re going to make a mockery of your favourite song, why not do so with smoke machines, ...