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This select shop for B-boys likes its clothing bold, colourful and plastered with slogans. It ...

One of the big names in Japanese tea.

The highlight of Kyoto’s street of antique stores is this enormous six-room townhouse, crammed ...

A manufacturer of parts for aircraft and bullet trains uses its metalwork expertise to produce ...

When Japan hosted the 2008 G8 Summit, the leaders’ wives all received a Kanoko kimono sash. ...

Kyoto designer Masaki Tokuda has a fascination with faces, adding smiles and sulks to ...

Kyoto-ites will argue about the best green tea, but elsewhere in Japan one brand reins supreme ...

The main branch of Osaka’s brash denim brand fits right into rowdy Kiyamachi. The two-tier ...

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

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

This neighbourhood has changed dramatically during the century since Funahashiya opened, with a ...

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, ...

Nowhere takes chopsticks more seriously than this tiny establishment. Ohashi Kobo creates ...

You will find better, more authentic handicrafts elsewhere, but nothing like the variety. This ...

Bucking the trend of machiyas getting slick makeovers, the owners of this clothing store have ...

The granddaddy of shichimi (Japanese ‘seven spice’) shops has been trading here since the mid ...

The Sfera Building, designed by Swedish group Claesson Koivisto Rune in 2003, is an oasis of ...

Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...