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

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

It’s quite a trek from anywhere, but this sake store is by far the best in the city. Owner ...

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 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 ...

Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...

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

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 ...

A textile-dyeing company with a history stretching back to 1919 runs the Pagong brand, best ...

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

This seven-floor superstore is the biggest electronics outlet in town. One of those floors is ...

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

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

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

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

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