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For martial art fans or wannabe warriors, this is where you’ll find all the swords, knives, gi, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Rei Kawakubo designed this store, along with the avant-garde fashion that fills it. A curving ...

Karakami is the traditional woodblock-printed washi paper that adorns some of Japan’s poshest ...

Tea bowls priced from ¥2,000 to ¥50,000 (try to spot the difference), colourful tea caddies and ...

Approaching its 300th anniversary, this paper fan specialist stocks around 100 designs, ranging ...

Filling in gaping holes on the fashion scene in Kyoto, this vast concrete store opened in late ...

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

One of the big names in Japanese tea.

This incense shop promotes lifestyle through scent, featuring new aromas of incense sticks ...

Kyoto's top shopping

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 ...

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

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