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The Kongo Noh school, one of the nation’s big five, has been performing for 26 generations. ...

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 ...

A temple that no gastronome should miss.

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

This avant-garde venue puts on entertainment ranging from local noise bands to an abstract mime ...

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

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

There’s an unusual entrance policy at this black basement box: foreigners get in free so long ...

Jazz joints are intimate in Kyoto, but there’s nowhere quite like this skinny bar. At a push, ...

It began life as a skater-influenced streetwear boutique, but this store has soared upmarket ...

The Kyoto brand Sou-Sou produces hip reinventions of Japanese workwear. The ground floor offers ...

The city’s hippest boutique occupies the second floor of a Tadao Ando building, selling designs ...

This select gents’ fashion store stocks some of the hottest domestic brands, including the ...

One of Teramachi’s oldest tenants, this store first opened for business in 1663. It stocks a ...

If your friends back home won’t put up with receiving tourist tat as souvenirs, this is the ...

In the remnants of a building by Tatsuno Kingo, the architect of Tokyo Station and the Bank of ...

The decor is so dazzling that it’s hard to focus on the clothes at this gargantuan boutique. ...

This small room was originally the tearoom of the adjoining Yoshikawa ryokan, but became a ...