You will find better, more authentic handicrafts elsewhere, but nothing like the variety. This ...
Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...
The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...
A manufacturer of parts for aircraft and bullet trains uses its metalwork expertise to produce ...
A textile-dyeing company with a history stretching back to 1919 runs the Pagong brand, best ...
Nowhere takes chopsticks more seriously than this tiny establishment. Ohashi Kobo creates ...
Bucking the trend of machiyas getting slick makeovers, the owners of this clothing store have ...
The Sfera Building, designed by Swedish group Claesson Koivisto Rune in 2003, is an oasis of ...
It began life as a skater-influenced streetwear boutique, but this store has soared upmarket ...
This seven-floor superstore is the biggest electronics outlet in town. One of those floors is ...
The highlight of Kyoto’s street of antique stores is this enormous six-room townhouse, crammed ...
Kyoto-ites will argue about the best green tea, but elsewhere in Japan one brand reins supreme ...
The Kyoto brand Sou-Sou produces hip reinventions of Japanese workwear. The ground floor offers ...
This incense shop promotes lifestyle through scent, featuring new aromas of incense sticks ...
It’s quite a trek from anywhere, but this sake store is by far the best in the city. Owner ...
For martial art fans or wannabe warriors, this is where you’ll find all the swords, knives, gi, ...
The granddaddy of shichimi (Japanese ‘seven spice’) shops has been trading here since the mid ...
Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...
Cotton wholesaler Eirakuya was established in 1615, and almost four centuries later, the ...
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